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Italian Credit Resilience Tested by Geopolitical and Regional Stress
Italian credit outlook 2026: corporates outperform global peers, but High Yield industrials and southern regions show rising stress.
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Will Trade Tensions Cause Trade Credit Insurance Costs to Rise?
Book a Demo A chain is only as strong as its weakest link – and with international political tensions causing disruption to trade networks worldwide, global supply chains are being put to the test. The US-China trade war has triggered major readjustments to existing global supply chain networks. US
July Credit Update: Consensus Upgrades and Downgrades are in Balance
Download PDF Credit Benchmark has published the latest monthly credit consensus data (from June 2019) based on contributions from 40+ financial institutions, covering 50,000 separate legal entities. The monthly upgrades and downgrades overview is now based on data adjusted for changes in contributor mix. Monthly consensus upgrades and downgrades: Last
Lenders Tap the Brakes on Auto Companies as Sales Lose Momentum
Download PDF Auto sales for July are expected to decrease by 1.8% compared to a year ago, according to the most recent J.D. Power and LMC Automotive forecast. The gloomy outlook is supported by Cox Automotive, who have reported a 2.2% decrease in sales for the first half of 2019 and are
Risk.net: China, US Corporates Feeling Trade Tensions
The G20 meeting in Osaka at the end of June brought a clutch of positive developments in the trade war between China and the US – a resumption of talks that had broken down in May, an accompanying ceasefire on new tariffs and a partial lifting of the US blockade
June Credit Update: Consensus Corporate Downgrades Outweigh Upgrades
Credit Benchmark has published the latest monthly credit consensus data (from May 2019) based on contributions from 40+ financial institutions, covering 50,000 separate legal entities. The monthly upgrades and downgrades overview is now based on data adjusted for changes in contributor mix. Monthly consensus upgrades and downgrades: Last month showed
Risk.Net: More Trouble in the Oil and Gas Pipeline
Oil and gas lenders tend to be a stoic bunch. But even the hardiest among them could be forgiven for feeling rattled these days… …Brent crude has risen by a fifth in the past few months, see-sawing between just below $50 a barrel and as high as $86.74 in a