In this CreditMatters TV segment, Standard & Poor’s credit analyst Julia Smith explains why the election outcome in Jamaica is unlikely to immediately affect the sovereign rating despite the opposition party’s victory.

In this CreditMatters TC, Corporate ratings analyst, Esther Liu will discuss the credit outlook of Hong Kong Properties and any downward ration action to the rated entities.

As of Jan. 1, 2016, we maintained 344 U.S. public finance ratings across Arizona, 89% of which fall in the ‘A’ category or higher. In addition, upgrades outpaced downgrades by 2.1 to 1 in 2015. In this CreditMatters TV segment, Senior Director Larry Witte explains the rating breakdowns by subsector in Arizona and how an improving state economy could support municipal ratings.

Standard & Poor’s adjusted global oil price assumptions have affected our economic, fiscal, and deficit projections for Colombia. In this CreditMatters TV segment, Managing Director Lisa Schineller explains the rationale behind our outlook revision on the sovereign rating and how the government is dealing with internal and external concerns.

Neste segmento de CreditMatters TV, a Diretora da Standard & Poor’s Daniela Brandazza apresenta as razões que levaram às recentes alterações de ratings dos governos locais brasileiros após a mudança nos ratings soberanos.

In this CreditMatters TV segment, Standard & Poor’s Director Daniella Brandazza discusses the rationale behind the recent rating actions on local and regional Brazilian governments after our action on the sovereign government.

We expect $3.7 trillion of European financial and nonfinancial companies' debt that we rate to mature by end-2020. In this CreditMatters TV segment, Standard & Poor’s Managing Director Andrew South discusses highlights of our H1 2016 European refinancing study.

We recently reviewed 20 investment-grade exploration & production companies and 45 speculative-grade players that resulted in mostly negative rating actions. In this CreditMatters TV segment, Managing Director Tom Watters discusses how falling oil prices fueled our actions. Other topics include the factors spurring oil production, price deck assumptions, and natural gas prices.

January marked the fourth consecutive month of sales gains for U.S. retailers, albeit at a very modest 0.2%. But Standard & Poor’s remains quite cautious, even pessimistic, about the prospects for small-ticket retailers, at least for now. In this segment of At The Register, Associate Olya Naumova explains what likely lies ahead.

Falling revenues from commodity exports leading to constraints on GCC government spending on projects means we expect a bigger role to develop for private finance and private sector participation ahead of events such as the Dubai Expo in 2020 and the Qatar World Cup 2022.