In this CreditMatters TV segment, Larry Witte, Senior Director in Global Fixed Income Research, discusses the overall slowdown in the ratio of upgrades to downgrades in U.S. public finance over the course of 2016 thus far.

S&P sees Danone deleveraging comfortably by end of 2018 thanks to strong cash flows. In this CreditMatters TV segment, S&P Global Ratings Associate Director Maxime Puget discusses our ‘BBB+/A-2’ rating affirmation and the negative outlook of Food and Beverage group Danone.

В этом эпизоде CMTV Рави Бхатия, являющийся ведущим аналитиком по России в S&P Global Ratings, рассказывает о ключевых факторах, обусловивших решение об изменении прогноза по долгосрочным рейтингам России.

In this CreditMatters TV segment, Larry Witte, Senior Director in Global Fixed Income Research, discusses U.S. public finance rating actions in California from Jan. 1, 2015 through June 30, 2016. Only six states, as well as Guam, had higher upgrade-to-downgrade ratios, but their total upgrades amounted to 94 upgrades as compared to the 484 upgrades California saw over that time.

S&P Global Ratings has assigned a ‘AAA’ rating to International Development Association (IDA). In this CreditMatters TV segment, S&P Global Ratings Analyst Alex Petrov looks at IDA’s main activities, its relationship with shareholders and its differences from other MLIs.

The number of rising stars increased to 25 so far in 2016 with the addition of six issuers. The U.S accounts for more than half the rising stars globally, with 60% (15). In this CreditMatters TV segment, Gregg Moskowitz, Associate Director of Global Fixed Income Research, discusses the key points.

There were two new fallen angels since our last report- Union Bank of India and EMC Corp. The last time an India-based issuer became a fallen angel was Indian Overseas Bank in November 2014. In this CreditMatters TV segment, Gregg Moskowitz, Associate Director of Global Fixed Income Research, discusses the key points.

We expect $3.8 trillion of European financial and nonfinancial companies' debt that we rate to mature by end-2021. In this CreditMatters TV segment, S&P Global Ratings Managing Director Andrew South discusses highlights of our H2 2016 European refinancing study.

In this CMTV segment Ravi Bhatia who is the primary analyst for Russia discusses the rationale behind the recent revision of the outlook on Russia’s long-term ratings.

Covering noteworthy research produced by S&P Global Ratings analysts in the region, "Latin America Monday Morning RoundUp" provides investors with a quick credit overview to start their week. Rating Analyst Filix Gomez hosts this weekly segment of CreditMatters TV.