As the economic landscape in U.S. evolves, the S&P Global Fixed Income Research group looked at some of the region's rating stress indicators and their recent performance. In this CreditMatters TV segment, Gregg Moskowitz, Associate Director of Global Fixed Income Research, discusses the key points.

Consolidated Energy Limited’s EBITDA is being impacted as a result of lower oil prices. In this CreditMatters TV segment, Associate Francisco Gutierrez explains the main factors behind the recent affirmation and outlook review on the Swiss petrochemical producer.

Recently, we took a rating action on the global mining company Teck Resources, which primarily follows a much stronger outlook for metallurgical coal prices and corresponding improvement in Teck’s financial risk profile. In this CreditMatters TV segment, Director Jarrett Bilous discusses the key factors that prompted our action.

A S&P Global Ratings recentemente publicou artigo sobre o impacto da atual recessão econômica no Brasil sobre as empresas de distribuição de eletricidade. Neste segmento de CreditMatters TV, o diretor da área de Ratings Corporativos Marcelo Schwarz discute as dinâmicas do setor e seus efeitos nos ratings das empresas em 2016 e 2017.

Recently, S&P Global Ratings published a commentary about the impact of Brazil’s ongoing recession on the country’s energy distribution companies. In this CreditMatters segment, Corporate Ratings Director Marcelo Schwarz discusses the sector’s dynamics and their effects on these companies’ ratings in 2016 and 2017.

Recently the Canadian Minister of Transport discussed upcoming legislation that might affect the Canadian commercial airline industry. S&P Global Corporate Ratings analysts Aniki Saha-Yannopoulos and Madhav Hari discuss the potential effect of these rules on the two Canadian incumbent airlines, Air Canada and WestJet. In addition, we discuss our expectations for their performance in 2017.

Robin Prunty discusses our November 14th commentary outline the post-Presidential election outlook across all municipal sectors and David Hitchcock outlines the credit drivers to our recent rating actions on the states of New Mexico and New Jersey.

The number of potential upgrades decreased to 269 as of Oct. 31, 2016, from 273 as of Sept. 30, 2016 with 30 additions and 34 removals. In this CreditMatters TV segment, Gregg Moskowitz, Associate Director of Global Fixed Income Research, discusses the key points.

The number of potential downgrades decreased to 679 as of Oct. 31, 2016, from 685 as of Sept. 30, 2016 with 54 removals and 48 additions, 17 of which (35%) are financial institutions. Of the 17, nine Australia-based. In this CreditMatters TV segment, Gregg Moskowitz, Associate Director of Global Fixed Income Research, discusses the key points.

October would see multiple news headlines related to the two U.S. Presidential candidates that would cause increased levels of certainty and uncertainty around the outcome. These uncertainties built up towards the end of the month, pushing most bonds and equities down in the lead-up to the vote. In this CreditMatters TV segment, S&P Global Sennior Director Nick Kraemer summarizes the experiences of various corporate bond breakouts in October.