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CFO September 1, 2003 Tim Reason	Good to Rate The rating agencies are under review for their failure to downgrade Enron more promptly. The only trouble is, proposed reforms might make things worse.
HBS Working Knowledge August 31, 2009 Martha Lagace	Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies Competition in credit ratings forces raters to favor issuers. This is contrary to the interest of those who rely on ratings to make investment decisions or to regulate.
CFO January 1, 2003	Credit Watch S&P's Leo O'Neill to SEC: We are not the watchdogs.
The Motley Fool February 8, 2008 Morgan Housel	Rating Agencies Begin to Come Clean If any group deserves the most blame for shady practices that gave credence to subprime debt, it might be the rating agencies.
BusinessWeek August 6, 2007 Roben Farzad	Let The Blame Begin Everyone played some role in the subprime mess - the Street, lenders, ratings agencies, hedge funds, even homeowners. Where does responsibility lie?
BusinessWeek October 1, 2007 David Henry	Anatomy Of A Ratings Downgrade How S&P and Moody's miscalculated risk on two top-rated pools of mortgage-backed bonds.
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BusinessWeek November 29, 2004 Amy Borrus	Rating Agencies Get A Credit Check The SEC and European regulators are debating new rules for the U.S.-led credit rating industry. The commission probably will ask Congress for authority to require rating agencies to open their books and records to the SEC.
The Motley Fool December 20, 2007 Dan Caplinger	The Ratings Game The companies that rate bonds look at several factors in rating fixed-income securities. Learn how these ratings work, and don't buy without knowing the facts.
The Motley Fool May 21, 2010 Morgan Housel	Put the Rating Agencies Out of Their Misery Before It's Too Late Once again, raters have proven themselves stuck on stupid. Congress is waking up. Two amendments in the just-passed Senate financial overhaul bill could euthanize the flawed parts of the rating system.
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The Motley Fool December 2, 2009 Anand Chokkavelu	Morningstar Has a AAA-Rated Plan Morningstar announced today that it's getting into the credit rating business.
BusinessWeek August 5, 2010 Henry Sanderson	A Chinese Rival to S&P, Fitch, and Moody's? Dagong Global Credit Rating wants to go global and take on its rivals' bias toward debtor countries in the West.
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Financial Planning March 1, 2007 Lynn Hume	The Bond Buyer SEC Votes on Rules for Rating Agencies: The proposed rules would implement provisions of the Credit Rating Agency Reform Act of 2006, which Congress approved and President Bush signed to foster increased competition, transparency and accountability among rating agencies.
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CFO May 1, 2009 Sarah Johnson	Trouble for the Other Big Three? The SEC explores whether new competition for the big credit-rating agencies could make them raise their games.
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BusinessWeek August 15, 2005 Hempel & Henry	Ranting At The Ratings Agencies Sean Egan likes to take shots at Moody's and S&P but is tight-lipped about his firm, Egan-Jones Ratings Co.
The Motley Fool January 25, 2008 Sham Gad	What a Rating Downgrade Really Means Repercussions of bond rating downgrades could wreak havoc on investors.
The Motley Fool April 18, 2011 Alex Dumortier	Revealed: 3 Emails That Explain the Crisis Released last week, a new 650-page Senate report on the financial crisis describes multiple aspects of a financial system run amok, including the way in which bankers muscled ratings agencies to turbo-charge their deal-making machine.
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The Motley Fool February 8, 2008 Morgan Housel	The Moody's Blues Debt-ratings agency Moody's watches its earnings and reputation erode, as the once-lucrative business of rating batches of collateralized debt obligations has begun to sour.
BusinessWeek July 23, 2007 Henry & Goldstein	The Subprime Mess: "It's Just Going To Get Worse" Many more borrowers could default when ARM rates rise.
Investment Advisor August 2007 Kathleen M. McBride	Coming Home to Roost Lurking problems in CMOs, CDOs, and junk dominate this year's Morningstar Investment Conference.
BusinessWeek May 28, 2007 David Henry	Buoyant Moody's Moody's has plenty of critics, but it remains massively profitable.
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The Motley Fool June 2, 2009 Morgan Housel	I'd Short This Stock David Einhorn, prominent hedge fund manger known for successfully shorting Lehman Brothers, recently disclosed that his firm, Greenlight Capital, is shorting Moody's.
Finance & Development December 2010 Arezki et al.	Bad News Spreads When government debt is downgraded, the ill effects can be felt across countries and financial markets.
BusinessWeek November 26, 2007 David Henry	A Chain Reaction in Shaky Debt? As exotic CDOs topple, the impact could ripple through debt markets and wallop more funds and banks.
The Motley Fool May 3, 2010 Nick Kapur	Why Do We Still Listen to the Ratings Agencies? How can investors put their faith back into the very institutions that have, at least partially, created the great financial collapse?
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BusinessWeek May 7, 2007 David Henry	How The Bad News Could Get Worse If delinquencies lead to downgrades of mortgage-backed securities, ripples could become waves.
The Motley Fool April 28, 2004 Nathan Slaughter	Moody's Good Mood The credit-rating agency reports strong first-quarter earnings.
The Motley Fool September 7, 2007 Seth Jayson	Wall Street Under the Magnifying Glass Credit-rating agencies prepare to be probed by the attorney generals of New York and Ohio, as well as the SEC, as to how they managed to package pools of low-quality loans into groups and pass off portions of it as being A-list.
Bank Systems & Technology June 24, 2008 Thompson & Mataconis	Banks Must Rely On Their Own Risk Models in Future Long-term, it's clear that banks will have to provide more transparency into their credit and risk decisions -- and do a lot more of the work themselves.
The Motley Fool August 11, 2006 Rich Smith	Senators Snookered by Credit Rating Bill? A Senate bill is unlikely to upset the Moody's - S&P debt-rating duopoly. Here's why and what it means to investors.
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Financial Planning May 1, 2006 Lynn Hume	Campos Mulls Law for Raters The SEC Commission member says it may be time to seek legislation that would give the SEC authority to regulate the nation's credit rating agencies.
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The Motley Fool October 27, 2004 Nathan Slaughter	Moody's Moving Forward The credit rating agency thrives as a big fish in a small pond. The stock, which is nearing a 52-week high, will not entice value investors at 28 times this year's earnings, but it is worth the premium price tag.
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