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Credit Spotlight on Global Defense
Rising defense budgets and investment in new technologies are seeing a boost to the credit quality of global aerospace and defense firms. Credit Benchmark reviews recent credit trends in the industry.
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Risk.Net: September Credit Data Review
“An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind,” Gandhi is said to have observed. Sadly, behavioural economists would probably agree he was

US Equities Extend Bull Run, But Credit Improvements Lag Behind Europe
US equities have now had 3,453 days without a correction of 20% or more – the longest bull run in US financial history. And since

Credit Benchmark Grows Bank Contributors, Eyes Non-Bank Credit Data
Inside Market Data (via Waters Technology) reports on Credit Benchmark’s plans to expand its dataset beyond banks, by beginning to collect and create consensus rating datasets

Sovereign Credit Risk: Developing Country Bonds Diverge
The decline of the Turkish Lira has raised a number of financial contagion worries. Initially these focused on European banks, but closer analysis suggests that

Risk.Net: August Credit Data Review
“US President Donald Trump says the package of tax cuts he signed into law last year unleashed an “economic miracle”, and with growth leaping to 4.1% in

July Credit Update: Consensus Upgrades Outnumber Downgrades
Credit Benchmark has published the latest monthly credit consensus data (from June 2018), with 24 contributor banks. The set of bank-sourced credit views (CBCs*) now