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. Senior Director José Coballasi hosts this weekly segment of CreditMatters TV.

A criteria revision in local government spurred U.S. public finance ratings to the most upgrades in a quarter since 2014. At the same time, downgrades fell to their lowest number since the fourth quarter of 2012. In this CreditMatters TV segment, Senior Director Larry Witte discusses these and other trends from the first quarter in U.S. public finance based on a recent study from S&P Global.

This week’s theme is, infrastructure! Global Practice Leads Tina Morris and Susan Gray talk about public and private sector infrastructure issues. Kurt Forsgren discusses autonomous vehicles and Ted Chapman and Obioma Ugboaja cover water bundling.

In this first episode of The S&P Tech Download, S&P Corporate Ratings Analytical Manger Alison Sullivan and Technology Sector Lead David Tsui talk about how the U.S.-China trade tension may hurt the technology sector.

The S&P Pharma Guy, Arthur Wong, shares S&P Global’s initial thoughts on President Trump’s recent speech on lowering drug prices. The speech questioned the validity of drug rebates and criticized foreign countries for paying too little for drugs, but stopped short of limiting proposing pharma list price increases or enabling Medicare to negotiate directly for pricing. Limited credit impact?

S&P Global Ratings recientemente publicó un artículo sobre las tendencias actuales en diversificación de activos para América Latina. En este segmento de CreditMatters TV, Cathy de la Torre, Director, destaca las principales transacciones en Argentina, México, Brazil y Colombia en lo que va del año, así como los activos con mayor potencial en la región.

A recent S&P Global Ratings’ article discusses the current asset diversification tendencies in Latin America. In this CreditMatters TV segment, Director Cathy de la Torre highlights key transactions in Argentina, Mexico, Brazil and Colombia as well as some new assets expected to gain momentum in the region.

In this edition of Capital Markets View, Chris Porter, Head of Loan, Recovery & CLO Business Development and Taron Wade, Director at LCD, part of S&P Global Market Intelligence discuss: CLO pricing, forward loan pipeline, sterling pricing, the loan market and pricing differential for deals.

The 2018 global corporate default tally climbed to 36 after three issuers defaulted this week. In this CreditMatters TV segment, Gregg Moskowitz, Associate Director of Global Fixed Income Research, discusses the key points.

In this episode of S&P Healthcare Credit Beat, Tulip Lim and Ji Liu discuss the rating assigned to the new issuer Carriage Services Inc., the third largest deathcare company in United States.