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[Invitation] Moody’s Global Teleconference Series: The outcome of rating reviews of 16 oil-exporting countries (11:00 Dubai / 15:00 Singapore / 16:00 Tokyo / 17:00 Sydney), 17 May 2016

Moody’s Global Teleconference Series: The outcome of rating reviews of 16 oil-exporting countries : Tuesday 17 and Wednesday 18 May 2016
Moody’s Investors Service will be hosting two teleconferences to discuss the outcome of its reviews for downgrade of the ratings of 16 oil-exporting sovereigns in the GCC, the CIS, Africa and elsewhere. Moody’s had initiated these rating reviews on 4 March to assess the impact of lower oil prices on oil-exporting sovereigns.

The teleconferences will cover the analytical considerations that drove the following rating actions:
» The ratings of 10 oil-exporting sovereigns have been downgraded, concluding the reviews for downgrade.
Of these, 4 were assigned stable rating outlooks and 6 received negative outlooks.
» The ratings of 6 oil-exporting sovereigns have been confirmed with a negative outlook, concluding the reviews for downgrade

Please click on your preferred date and time below to register.

APAC / Middle East: 17 May 2016 – 15:00 SGT /1600 JST / 11:00 GST / 17:00 AEST
This session will be led by:
» Atsi Sheth, Associate Managing Director, Sovereign Risk Group (Moderator)
» Steffen Dyck, Vice President – Senior Credit Officer, Sovereign Risk Group
» Mathias Angonin, Analyst, Sovereign Risk Group
» Dietmar Hornung, Associate Managing Director, Sovereign Risk Group
» Aurelien Mali, Vice President – Senior Credit Officer, Sovereign Risk Group

Americas / Europe: 18 May 2016 – 15:00 BST / 16:00 CEST / 10:00 EDT
This session will be led by:
» Yves Lemay, Managing Director, Sovereign Risk (Moderator)
» Steffen Dyck, Vice President – Senior Credit Officer, Sovereign Risk
» Dietmar Hornung, Associate Managing Director, Sovereign Risk
» Jaime Reusche, Vice President – Senior Analyst, Sovereign Risk
» Lucie Villa, Vice President – Senior Analyst, Sovereign Risk

This call will last approximately 60 minutes and registration is required.
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Top Free Financial Tools and Resources Every Finance Professional Must Know

Finance and investment jobs are perhaps some of the world’s most mind-crunching careers.

These professions carry with them a lot of complicated processes and activities. A lot of terms and formulas are so hard they can quickly be forgotten. One can easily get lost somewhere in the middle.

That’s why, over time, financial tools are being made to make things easier.They either aid in creating dynamic worksheets or maybe as simple as helping professionals in monitoring market developments.But, these financial tools are provided for a cost… but not always.

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Global Growth Challenges: Horses For Courses

Global Growth Challenges: Horses For Courses

In the past eight years since the global economy suffered a financial heart attack that thrust it into a sharp, deep recession, economic policy has been in the spotlight and has been hotly debated, as governments and central banks have intervened in unprecedented ways and on an unprecedented scale to stabilize, stimulate, and refashion markets and economies. Gone, for now at least, are the days when macroeconomic policy was largely a fine-tuning exercise of central banks, and certainly gone are the days when markets could be assumed to be self-regulating. The recent slowdown in the global economy and recurrent bouts of market turbulence, giving rise to such policy actions as negative policy interest rates but also partly reacting to them, have caused renewed soul searching about appropriate policy choices. The growth and other challenges confronting the global economy demand policy action, but the policy…

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