Article: Now You See It Now You Don't; Ratings for corporations can be withdrawn at the company's request. Are some issuers trying to hide the bad news?(Cover Story)

Article: RATING AGENCIES: Moody's Didn't Do Its Job, ...
The Bond Buyer;  October 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... initially ignored, Moody's did take some small ... financial crisis began and rating agencies were put under additional ... McCleskey said. A Moody's spokesman did not ... the outside law firm Moody's hired to investigate ... alright if the credit rating agencies hadn't played a ...

Article: RATE UNTIL DARK: Moody's President John Rutherfurd ...
Crain's New York Business;  June 15, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... been better for Moody's and the other ... Ratings Service. Rating agencies sell research to ... Rutherfurd, his Moody's counterpart ... would be hard for rating agencies not to be making ... decline, however, rating agencies would be among ... have not stopped Moody's and ...

Article: Subprime mess hits rating agencies; Shares of ...
Crain's New York Business;  July 30, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... world's two top credit-rating agencies--Moody's Investors Service and ... won top AAA marks from the rating agencies, according to industry ... coming to market boosted both rating agencies hugely. At Moody's, revenues from rating ...

Article: Rating Agencies: Moody's Plan for Global ...
The Bond Buyer;  April 21, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Frank, D-Mass., suggested Moody's plan was only a ploy for ... senior managing director of Moody's global public, project ... speaking regularly with credit rating agencies. Some of the letters sent to Moody's appear to adopt a middle ...

Article: Rating Agencies: S&P's Private Higher Ed. Ratings ...
The Bond Buyer;  October 20, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... differences of opinion between Moody's and Standard & ... disparity between the two rating agencies, their opinions can ... ratings up a bit while Moody's may tend to be more ... amp; Poor's and Moody's. The research also showed that the two rating agencies have split ratings ...

Article: Hard Noses At Agencies: Post-Enron, Moody's takes a harder ...
Investment Dealers' Digest;  July 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... newfound conservatism among rating agencies-especially Moody's Investors Service-which ... These days, a chastened trio of rating agencies is responding to any hint of ... three notches to junk status by Moody's. "They're feeling pressure ...

Article: Rating Agencies: Moody's Publishes National ...
The Bond Buyer;  October 14, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... districts. By mid-November, Moody's said database users, which ... suites of products similar to Moody's database, but not such ... according to both agencies. Moody's database gives clients ... regulators would like to see rating agencies do in general," Washburn ...