Moody's Corporation

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Moody's hikes AMD rating to 'B2'; outlook positive - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 7 days 8 hours 35 minutes ago
Moody's hikes AMD rating to 'B2'; outlook positive


U.S. stocks end slighty lower, weighed by tech - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 5 days 2 hours 32 minutes ago
BREAKINGBrazil to levy 1.5% tax on ADRs: report


Credit cards gouge consumers ahead of new law - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 17 days 10 hours 24 minutes ago
In fact, some 400 credit cards from the nation's 12 largest bank issuers -- accounting for 90% of the $89.8 billion in outstanding consumer credit -- are still using most of the same tactics that the Federal Reserve has called "unfair or deceptive" and that will be outlawed in fewer than four months, according to a new report from the Pew Health Group's Safe Credit Cards Project.


RIM chief says apps about 'quality, not quantity' - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 13 days 17 hours 27 minutes ago
In an interview at the BlackBerry Developers Conference in San Francisco, Jim Balsillie said support from wireless carriers for RIM's line of smartphones has never been stronger.


Wednesday's biggest gaining and declining stocks - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 12 days 10 hours 47 minutes ago
On the surface, retail sales seemed to have a pulse this week. But the latest rise in sales is only impressive because it comes on the back of last year's anemic results.


Wall Street, Bloomberg & the Yankees strike back David Weidner's Writing on the Wall - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 13 days 18 hours 21 minutes ago
That's what happened last Friday when, in the shadow of Wall Street, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg hailed the New York Yankees after the team's parade celebrating the organization's 27th championship. It wasn't just a special moment; it was the best moment money could buy.


MBIA weighs on sector; AIG sees repayment - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 13 days 7 hours 13 minutes ago
The troubled insurance giant should be able to repay the federal government's senior secured loan and most or all of its preferred stock ownership if global financial markets continue to firm up. See full story.


Yahoo's Bartz expects Microsoft deal approval by Q1 2010 - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 13 days 16 hours 35 minutes ago
"There is no delay," Bartz told reporters at an event in Singapore. "We expect (the deal) in the first quarter."


Will the Supreme Court roil the software industry? - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 14 days 12 hours 38 minutes ago
Oral arguments in the case, "Bernard L. Bilski and Rand A. Warsaw v. David J. Kappos," have been highly anticipated. Often referred to as the "Bilski" case, it was originally brought by an inventor who'd tried to win a business-method patent for a means to hedge against changes in commodity prices.


Clearwire to get $1.5 billion in financing: WSJ - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 14 days 11 hours 14 minutes ago
Ensco to relocate headquarters to U.K.


Monday's biggest moving stocks - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 14 days 10 hours 46 minutes ago
AES Corp, the Virginia-based global power company, proudly announced Friday it has tapped into the Mother Lode to raise capital for its expansion plans: China Investment Corp.


Panel set to vote on post-crisis credit rater bill - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 27 days 3 hours 1 minute ago
"In the current situation the evidence is that credit raters did a really bad job," said House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank, D-Mass.


Mexican stocks on brink of breaking win streak - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 38 days 4 hours 21 minutes ago
Mexico's IPC index fell 0.8% to 30,760, putting its 10 session winning streak at risk. The string of advances has been the index's longest since late-March 2004.





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Company: Moody's Corporation
Industry: Credit Reporting
Website: http://www.moodys.com

Moody's cheerfully performs the dismal science. The holding company for Moody's Investors Service, Moody's publishes credit ratings and other financial information on more than 100,000 commercial and government entities in about 100 countries. The firm operates in two segments. Moody's Investor Services rates such credit risks as insurers, bonds, managed funds, and securities. The company's famous letter ratings (ranging from Aaa to C) were invented by John Moody in 1909 and are still used today. Moody's Analytics, the cornerstone of which is Moody's KMV, sells credit risk management software and services to financial institutions.


Key Numbers

Sales in U.S. Dollars (mil.) 1,755.4 (2008)
One-year % Growth in Sales -22.3 (2008)
Net Income in U.S. Dollars (mil.) 457.6 (2008)
One-year % Growth in Net Income -34.8 (2008)
Number of Employees 3,900 (2008)
One-year % Growth in Number of Employees 8.3 (2008)
Fiscal Year-End December