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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.
Home Improvement and Grocery Delivery Firms Suffer as Pre-COVID Habits Return
As the pandemic eases and workers return to their offices, companies that were COVID beneficiaries are facing the double hit of a return to more traditional buying habits and an inflation squeeze on household budgets.
April Credit Consensus Indicators (CCIs) – UK, EU and US Industrials
Credit Benchmark have released the April 2022 Credit Consensus Indicators (CCIs). April showed similarly positive CCI readings for US and EU Industrial firms this month, both of which have enjoyed overall net improvement for several months now. The UK dropped into negative territory after three prior months of improvements, implying a shakier credit foundation.
Q1 2022 Quarterly Review: COVID Recovery, Inflation and Ukraine Invasion
The latest whitepaper from Credit Benchmark illustrates the global credit trends in the first quarter of 2022. With global growth rebounding strongly at the start of 2022, consensus credit trends mirrored this recovery across a broad range of sectors. But as inflation grows and interest rates look likely to jump, will heavily indebted companies drive credit defaults higher?
Earth Day: Ukraine War Pushes Energy Efficiency Rethink
The Ukraine war has seen countries scrambling to secure energy supplies, boosting the need for renewable sources. But with renewable energy paradoxically dependent on the increasingly volatile climate, diversity in technologies is critical to ensure stable supplies from renewable sources. Credit Consensus Ratings are available for a variety of wind and solar firms, with this report showing some divergences in credit quality.
April 2022 Financial Counterpart Monitor
The Financial Counterpart Monitor from Credit Benchmark provides a unique analysis of the changing creditworthiness of financial institutions.
April 2022 Industry Monitor
Credit Benchmark have released the latest end-month industry update, based on the final and complete set of the contributed credit risk estimates from 40+ global financial institutions.
