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2024/25 Default Risk Outlook: UK Industries
Credit Benchmark’s new 2024/25 Default Risk Outlook for UK Industries predicts UK default risks to plateau in next 12 months; Basic Materials, Telecoms and Technology predicted to show >10% increase in default risk by Q2 2025.
Declining Credit Quality: Is Global Tobacco Being Stubbed Out?
Global Tobacco credit quality has weakened by 3.4% month-on-month. The introduction of stricter tobacco measures globally, as well as COVID-19, all contribute to this change.
August Credit Consensus Indicators (CCIs) – UK, EU and US Oil & Gas
Credit Benchmark have released the August 2022 Credit Consensus Indicators (CCIs). UK Oil & Gas firms recent run of improvements ends after 6 months. EU Oil & Gas firms have experienced some instability in their collective credit quality this year, however, their CCI score has been above 50 for 3 consecutive months now. US Oil & Gas firms have gone from strength to strength, boasting CCI scores above 50 for 17 consecutive months.
August Credit Consensus Indicators (CCIs) – UK, EU and US Industrials
Credit Benchmark have released the August 2022 Credit Consensus Indicators (CCIs). UK Industrial firms are in a positive position for the second time this month, but they have been unable to maintain a consistent trend since mid-2021. EU Industrial firms have registered another positive CCI for this month, which is the eleventh consecutive instance of a positive score. This month US Industrial firms ended their streak of 17 consecutive months of positive credit quality.
Q2 2022 Quarterly Review: Credit at a Turning Point?
This whitepaper from Credit Benchmark illustrates the global credit trends in the second quarter of 2022. Widening credit spreads show a major shift to a “risk-off” mindset, as supply shocks and rate hikes show no sign of abating. Corporate default rates are likely to spike, and across sectors correlations between default risk are changing. This whitepaper tracks these shifts across many otherwise unrated countries/sectors, as well as illustrating other global trends in Q2 2022.
July Credit Consensus Indicators (CCIs) – UK, EU and US Oil & Gas
Credit Benchmark have released the July 2022 Credit Consensus Indicators (CCIs). UK and US Oil & Gas firms continue their streaks of consistently positive CCI scores, with 7 months and 17 months of net credit improvement respectively. EU Oil & Gas firms have travelled a bumpier road, with alternating positive and negative scores this year, ending on a neutral credit quality position in the most recent update.
July Credit Consensus Indicators (CCIs) – UK, EU and US Industrials
Credit Benchmark have released the July 2022 Credit Consensus Indicators (CCIs). EU and US Industrial firms continue their streaks of consistently positive CCI scores, with 10 months and 17 months of net credit improvement respectively. UK firms have travelled a bumpier road, with alternating positive and negative scores in recent months, ending on a positive in the most recent update.
