Moody's Corporation

Bond outlook upgraded for Anne Arundel County

2013-06-17 14:29:00

Credit rating house Standard & Poor has assigned Anne Arundel County's bonds a AAA rating and upgraded its assessment of the county's fiscal outlook from "negative" to "stable," officials announced Monday. Moody's, another credit rating house, gave...

St. Mary's College reviewed for credit downgrade

2013-06-10 12:53:46

Moody's Investor Services said Monday that it was reviewing for a possible downgrade the A1 credit rating of St. Mary's College of Maryland, which last week announced the resignation of its president amid news that the liberal arts school expects to...

Md. sheds 6,200 jobs in April, Labor Department says

2013-05-17 16:16:43

Maryland employers slashed 6,200 jobs in April, cutting short a string of gains, the U.S. Department of Labor said Friday, as the state began feeling the pinch of federal budget sequestration and cutbacks in consumer spending. But the government's...

Complaining CEOs need to take a hike

2013-05-08 16:26:04

I took a walk early Wednesday morning. Azaleas and dogwoods were in bloom. Green-again trees and shrubs were damp, dripping from Tuesday's rain. A zillion birds were singing, and even the starlings sounded sweet. The Orioles had won another game. A...

Leadership vacuum, not locusts, is Egypt's greatest plague

2013-04-20 00:00:00

A plague of locusts swept through Egypt a few weeks ago, an estimated 30 million of the critters. Egyptian officials tried to downplay the phenomenon, hoping to quash any biblical analogies. They noted that locust swarms show up in the spring every...

Maryland gained 6,700 jobs in January; unemployment unchanged

2013-03-18 15:35:00

Maryland employers added 6,700 jobs in January, picking up the pace from the end of last year, the U.S. Department of Labor said Monday. Businesses added 5,300 jobs in December, according to the agency's revised estimates. In both December and January,...

Howard County maintains AAA bond rating

2013-03-08 06:19:00

Howard County has maintained its AAA credit rating from all three bond ratings agencies after one agency had warned the county might lose its superior standing because of uncertainty with the federal government. Howard County was one of 38 counties...

Maryland's cloudy credit horizon

2013-02-18 13:22:00

It would be ironic if Maryland, for the first time in the history of municipal bond ratings, lost its AAA status now. Thanks to a combination of spending restraint, tax increases and other reforms, Maryland's balance sheet is stronger that it has been...

St. Joseph receives Medicare certification

2013-02-22 17:10:43

University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center said Friday that it has received a new Medicare provider agreement, allowing it to again seek reimbursement for treating patients on the federal government's health program. The Towson hospital has not...

St. Joseph loses $400,000 every day it can't bill Medicare

2013-02-15 19:13:00

University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center loses about $400,000 every day it's not certified by Medicare to collect payments from the federal health care program. The big question is how much that will ultimately cost the Towson hospital. Tens...

Howard County faces loss of AAA bond rating

2013-02-14 03:15:00

Howard County has maintained a AAA bond rating from agencies Standard & Poors, Moody's Investors Service, and Fitch Ratings since the mid-1990s, but if Moody's downgrades the federal government to AA-plus, Howard County could follow. Howard County...

Kopp says state bond rating could suffer if Washington fails to act

2013-02-13 15:10:27

Maryland could lose one of its prized AAA bond ratings if the U.S. government fails to find a way out of its debt and budget problems in the coming months, state Treasurer Nancy K. Kopp has warned. Kopp told a Senate committee in Annapolis this week that...

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) said Moody's, Fitch and Standard & Poor's had �shortcomings" in bank rating methodologies.

2013-03-18 04:08:00

A file picture taken Jan. 17, 2012, shows a closeup of the opening page of the Moody's Investors Service website.

2013-01-02 12:33:00

A file picture taken Jan. 17, 2012, shows a closeup of the opening page of the Moody's Investors Service website.

2013-01-02 12:33:00