The 2017 global corporate default tally increased to 66 after U.S.-based food retailer Tops Holding II Corp. defaulted this week. In this CreditMatters TV segment, Gregg Moskowitz, Associate Director of Global Fixed Income Research, discusses the key points.

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. Associate Director Elena Enciso hosts this weekly segment of CreditMatters TV.

A retirada de CreditWatch negativo dos ratings soberanos do Brasil impactou, entre outros, os ratings dos governos regionais e locais do país. Nesta edição de CreditMatters TV, Daniela Brandazza, diretora sênior de Finanças Públicas Internacionais da S&P Global Ratings, discute a revisão desses ratings, tais como os dos estados de São Paulo, Santa Catarina e Minas Gerais.

Brazil’s sovereign rating action led to the revision of Regional and local governments’ ratings, among others. In this CreditMatters TV, S&P Global Ratings’ International Public Finance Senior Director, Daniela Brandazza, discusses these rating actions, highlighting those on Brazilian states, like Sao Paulo, Santa Catarina and Minas Gerais.

Nonbank financial institutions could face refinancing risk with increasing maturities in a rising rate environment. In this CreditMatters TV segment, analysts Trevor Martin and Gaurav Parikh discuss how S&P Global Ratings thinks nonbanks will react to this risk, along with the factors that make them different than banks and corporate issuers.

Recientemente, tomamos una acción de calificación en escala global sobre Corporación Financiera de Desarrollo. En este segmento de CreditMatters TV, Rafael Janequine, Asociado, e Ivana Recalde, Director, explican los factores crediticios subyacentes de la calificación tales deterioro en la calidad de activos y apoyo gubernamental.

Recently, we took a rating action on our long-term global scale rating on Corporacion Financiera de Desarrollo. In this CreditMatters TV segment, Associate Rafael Janequine and Director Ivana Recalde explain the underlying credit factors for the ratings such as asset quality deterioration and government support.

S&P Global Ratings analyst Arthur Wong discusses the recent downgrade of Endo International, which took another significant charge for its mesh litigation settlement, while dealing with ongoing pressures in the generic and opioid markets.

S&P Global Ratings retail analyst Andy Sookram swings by the show to discuss the ratings and prospects of major U.S. pharmacy player, Rite Aid, now that its merger with rival Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. has been canceled, and is instead selling roughly half its stores to Walgreens.

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, review the trends of the past six months, discussing the predicted growth of Capex in 2017, breaking a four year pattern of decline, plus European recovery rates and the outlook for the leveraged finance market for the rest of this year.