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Moody’s Q1 2013 Revenues up 13%

For Moody’s Corporation overall, global revenue of $731.8 million for the first quarter of 2013 was up 13% from the first quarter of 2012. U.S. revenue of $406.1 million for the first quarter of 2013 increased 18% from the first quarter of 2012, while … Continue reading

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Buffett’s Berkshire Sells 1.75 Million Moody’s Shares

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRKA, BRKB) sold 1.75 million shares of Moody’s Corp. (MCO), reducing its stake in the ratings firm by about 6.1% as the stock reached a high last seen in the summer of 2007. Berkshire remains the ratings firm’s … Continue reading

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McGraw-Hill Companies Q1st 2013 Revenues up 14%

The Company reported first quarter 2013 revenue of $1,181 million, an increase of 14% compared to the same period last year.  Net income and diluted earnings per share from continuing operations were $153 million and $0.54, respectively.  Excluding the impact … Continue reading

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Moody’s and S&P Reach Settlements in Long Standing Lawsuits

Settlements have been reached in two long-running lawsuits seeking to hold Moody’s Investors Service and Standard & Poor’s responsible for misleading investors about the safety of risky debt vehicles that they rated. The lawsuits had accused Moody’s, a unit of … Continue reading

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Kroll Bond Rating Agency Ramps up Capacity by Adding Four Analysts

Kroll Bond Rating Agency Inc., the ratings company started by private investigator Jules Kroll, hired four analysts from Morningstar Inc. (MORN) for its commercial- mortgage backed securities group.

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Business Information: What Grows and What Does Not?

This is BIIA’s latest update on 2012 revenue growth based on the latest annual reports.  We have mapped the individual growth rates of major business information suppliers against Outsell’s growth estimates for 2012.   Outsell’s Credit & Financial Information segment grew … Continue reading

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SME Ratings: Creditrefom Rating Enters into Co-operation with Feri EuroRating and Fischer Bussmann Konrad

Creditreform Ratings AG (a specialized SME credit rating company based in Germany) has entered into a co-operation with Feri EuroRating Services AG and Fischer Bussmann Konrad GmbH.  The purpose of the co-operation is to create customer-specific industry reports. Creditreform contributes … Continue reading

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Annual Report Season Scoreboard: What Grows and What Does Not?

The latest report from Outsell Inc. estimates that the total information industry grew by 3.3% in 2012 to US$506 billion.  The growth of the credit & financial information segment grew by 6%.  The company information segment grew also by 6%.  … Continue reading

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Crisil India: Bank Loan and SME Ratings Drives Growth

Crisil Ltd, one of India’s credit rating agencies, has reported a 7.5 per cent rise in net profit at Rs 60 crore during the October-December quarter compared with Rs 56 crore in the year-ago period.  Its consolidated profit-after-tax was Rs … Continue reading

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