The S&P Pharma Guy, Arthur Wong, shares S&P Global’s thoughts on Pfizer Inc.’s announcement it was spinning off Upjohn, home to legacy products Lipitor, Viagra, and Lyrica. Pfizer remains a pharma giant and leading player in the industry. However, the lessened diversity will result in a lower rating.

Take Notes is back and brighter than ever! We're talking solar assets, including power purchase agreements versus PACE and how financing works for different types of obligors, as well as how we rate these deals under our new methodology.

Activist investors have been involved in the Specialty Chemical space. This edition of Cracking & Fracking hosts Daniel Krauss who explores the reason why this is occurring, if this trend will continue and what it means for credit quality. We also take a look at the general outlook for chemicals and some of the drivers behind this outlook.

Listen to a myriad of analysts from charters to transit talk about rating actions that you should know about. You will hear about a first-of-its-kind pool transaction featuring charter school loans, recent actions related to wildfire risk within public power, and The Miami-Dade Expressway. All of this, on this week’s Extra Credit with Lisa Schroeer and special co-host Peter Murphy.

In today’s episode, Hina Shoeb and Sandeep Chana have a guest speaker- Sabrine Boudella who is our Corporate Analyst for Synlab.

Listen to a myriad of analysts from charters to transit talk about rating actions that you should know about. You will hear about a first-of-its-kind pool transaction featuring charter school loans, recent actions related to wildfire risk within public power, and The Miami-Dade Expressway. All of this, on this week’s Extra Credit with Lisa Schroeer and special co-host Peter Murphy.

In this month's Capital Markets View Chris is joined by Luke Millar, European Editor, LCD. Luke and Chris discuss how loan supply is volatile (the rise of refinancings and recapitalisations, again) as loan pricing dips, the direction of pricing for CLO liabilities (syndicate pricing vs anchored AAA) and how leverage levels continue to rise, but are offset by high interest coverage.

In today’s episode, Hina Shoeb and Sandeep Chana have a guest speaker- Mark Habib who is our Sector Lead for European Telecom & Technology Sector.

Listen to clips from host Lisa Schroeer’s 2018 favorite shows. Return for new programing next episode.

Crude oil’s had a volatile year. In this podcast, S&P Global Rating Analysts, Thomas Watters and Simon Redmond discuss the Straits of Hormuz, OPEC+ cuts, trade wars, Exxon & Chevron’s shale investments and what we’re seeing for lower rated U.S. producers.