It has been benefited from steady economic growth and is now the second commercial and financial center of the city, housing international firms like Moody's, Citibank, Aon Corporation, Huawei, Millicom International Cellular, Nissan Motor Corporation represented by Taiyo Motors, Pan American Silver Corporation, a Sumitomo Corporation branch, Ernst & Young, and the " MegaCenter ", Bolivia's biggest shopping mall ( 52. 000 mts2 of construction ).

* Moody's Corporation, 25 / F, Suite 2510

* Moody's Corporation, owner of Moody's Analytics ( 12. 5 %)

Moody's Manuals are still issued, carrying on the tradition begun by the seminal Moody's Manual of Railroads and Corporation Securities and continued by the annual Moody's Analyses of Investments.

In 2007, Moody's Corporation was split into two operating divisions, Moody's Investors Service, the rating agency, and Moody's Analytics, with all of its other products.

Moody's Corporation, often referred to as Moody's, is the holding company for Moody's Investors Service ( MIS ), a credit rating agency, and Moody's Analytics ( MA ), a provider of financial analysis software and services.

The business was acquired by Dun & Bradstreet in 1962 and spun off as a separate company, organized as Moody's Corporation, in 2000.

Moody's Corporation established Moody's Analytics in 2007.

Moody's Investors Service is the bond credit rating business of Moody's Corporation, representing the company's traditional line of business and its historical name.

Moody's Analytics is a subsidiary of Moody's Corporation established in 2007 to focus on non-rating activities.

In January 2010 Moody's followed with an upgrade of its rating perspective from " stable " to " positive.

Indonesia regained its investment grade rating from Fitch Rating in late 2011, and from Moody's Rating in early 2012, after losing its investment grade rating in December 1997 at the onset of the Asian financial crisis which Indonesia spent more than Rp450 trillion ($ 50 billion ) to bail out lenders from banks.

By March 2009, Porsche SE was aiming for its first ever credit ratings from U. S. rating agencies Standard & Poor's and Moody's.

Some of the challenges that Moody's noted were the reliance that the museum has on the tourist industry in New York for its operating revenue, and a large amount of debt.

In September 2011, the borough experienced a " super downgrade " of its credit rating by Moody's, from A1 to Ba1, as a result of an outstanding multi-million dollar loan guaranty to a property developer.

Of the large agencies, only Moody's is a separate, publicly held corporation that discloses its financial results without dilution by non-ratings businesses, and its high profit margins ( which at times have been greater than 50 percent of gross margin ) can be construed as consistent with the type of returns one might expect in an industry which has high barriers to entry.

According to Peter Robison and Christopher Donville of Bloomberg News, as reported in the Seattle Times ( April 17, 2009 ), " Weyerhaeuser is in a financial crisis so deep the largest U. S. lumber producer turns down the heat in its offices to save money ..." On September 28, 2009, Moody's reported Weyerhauser's proposed new notes rated at Ba1, a rating that puts them with junk bonds.

** 22 September: Moody's Investors Service has changed its outlook on Bank of Ireland from stable to negative.

In 2009 Moody's included Quiksilver on its Bottom Rung list of companies most likely to default on its debt.

By the late 1990s, Moody's superior performance compared to its parent company brought investor pressure to separate the businesses.

Moody's Investors Service and its close competitors play a key role in global capital markets as a supplementary credit analysis provider for banks and other financial institutions in assessing the credit risk of particular securities.

According to Moody's, the purpose of its ratings is to " provide investors with a simple system of gradation by which future relative creditworthiness of securities may be gauged ".

To each of its ratings from Aa through Caa, Moody's appends numerical modifiers 1, 2 and 3 ; the lower the number, the higher-end the rating.

Moody's Analytics started in 1995 as a business unit providing quantitative analysis services, including credit risk assessment software and services, called Moody's Risk Management Service ( MRMS ), and grew through partnerships and acquisitions in the late 1990s and 2000s, expanding its client base and capabilities.

Since 2006, its leading program is the annual Moody's Mega Math Challenge ( M < sup > 3 </ sup > Challenge ), a student academic challenge co-sponsored with the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics ( SIAM ), in which several hundred teams of high school students use quantitative analysis and modeling to solve problems related to real-life financial topics such as Social Security and the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008.

Moody's schools have a history of high SAT scores and their graduation rate is also high.

A fuller biographical profile by George Ellison can be found in " James Moody's history, myths, and sacred formulas of the Cherokees.

According to the American federal government statistics compiled by Mark Zandi, currently of " Moody's Economy. com ", back in 1985, the average inheritance was $ 39, 000.

Tom Moody's leg-stump was dislodged when he shouldered arms to a delivery that pitched at least two feet outside the off-stump.

On 13 July 2012, Moody's cut Italy's credit rating two notches, to Baa2 ( leaving it just above junk ).

Moody's 3554th Fighter-Interceptor Training Squadron maintained two combat-ready aircraft and crews on five-minute active air alert as ADC augmentation forces.

Fitch Ratings is the smallest of the " big three " NRSROs, covering a more limited share of the market than S & P and Moody's, though it has grown with acquisitions and frequently positions itself as a " tie-breaker " when the other two agencies have ratings similar, but not equal, in scale.

* 2003 – unaudited financial statements reveal record high growth in profits in 2002 ( loan portfolio increased 70 % to US $ 1. 4 billion, assets surged 51 %, while net income rose by more than a third ); Alfa Bank, in partnership with the Lauder Institute of the Wharton School of Business, establishes a new award for Excellence in Foreign Investment, which would be presented to foreign companies operating in Russia for weighty contribution to the corporate governance and successful business operations ; Alfa Bank draws US $ 82 million unsecured syndicated loan, the biggest on record among private banks ; S & P, Fitch and Moody's upgrade Alfa Bank's rating during the year ;

In 1962, Moody's Investors Service was bought by Dun & Bradstreet, a firm engaged in the related field of credit reporting, although they continued to operate largely as independent companies.

Subsidiary companies that make up Moody's Analytics today include Moody's KMV, Economy. com, Wall Street Analytics, Fermat International, Enb Consulting Ltd., The Institute of Risk Standards and Qualifications ( iRSQ ) and, most recently, CSI Global Education Inc.

The company maintains unsurpassed ratings for insurance financial strength from all four major rating agencies ( Standard & Poors lowered ratings for a number of insurance companies, including Northwestern Mutual, to AA + in August 2011 ): A. M. Best, Standard & Poor's, Moody's, and Fitch Ratings.

Moody's rates the U. S. companies " A2 " and the unsecured loan notes " A3 ".

In 2009, Level 3 Communications made it into a " bottom rung " list of the Moody's rating agency, which contained companies with the highest debt payment failure risk.

Moody's and other investment companies have other less common investment bonds that are also used.

In 2007, NYLIC achieved the best possible ratings by the four independent rating companies ( Standard & Poor's, AM Best, Moody's and Fitch ).

In 1900, Moody published his first market assessment, called Moody's Manual of Industrial and Miscellaneous Securities, and established John Moody & Company.