Credit Ratings

New Delhi, March 18 (IANS) Private consumption as well as non-residential investment are expected to materially pick up over the next few quarters, Moody's Analytics said on Thursday. This will strengthen the domestic demand revival in 2021, it said in...

New Delhi, March 8 (IANS) A sprightly recovery in demand has spawned guarded optimism about the credit quality of India Inc, and led to CRISIL's credit ratio (upgrades to downgrades) inching closer to 1 between October and February this...

Mumbai, Mar 8 (IANS): The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic is likely to pose challenges to the Indian banks' improving financial performance once asset-quality risks manifest in the financial year ending March 2022 (FY22), says Fitch Ratings. According to Fitch, India's...

New Delhi, Feb 27 (IANS): Improved economic environment in 2HFY21 and the Centre's focus on higher spending especially on infrastructure will give a boost to FY21 credit growth, India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) said. The agency's February 2021 edition of its...

New Delhi, Feb 25 (IANS) Moody's Investors Service says that India's (Baa3 negative) weak fiscal position will remain a key credit challenge in 2021. According to Moody's, the prospects for fiscal consolidation remain weak particularly given the government's mixed track...

New Delhi, Feb 16 (IANS) Credit Suisse has upgraded India and Australia from Market Weight to Overweight while downgrading China and Thailand stock markets. "The upgrades reflect our expectation that economic and earnings recoveries are just starting their most rapid...

New Delhi, Feb 8 (IANS) Moody's Investors Service has changed India's power sector outlook from negative to stable on generation growth. Accordingly, on February 6, India's Central Electricity Authority reported a 3.1 per cent year-on-year growth for the country's power...

New Delhi, Feb 3 (IANS) Global rating agencies may view Indias fiscally expansive Budget proposals "negatively" and there is a risk of one of them downgrading India's sovereign rating, as per Nomura. The Japanese brokerage said that Fitch Ratings, one...

New Delhi, Jan 29 (IANS): Coming down hard on sovereign credit ratings, the Economic Survey 2020-21 said that the ratings do not reflect the fundamentals of the Indian economy. Describing the sovereign credit ratings as "noisy, opaque and biased", the document...

New Delhi, Jan 20 (IANS) Indian insurance companies are likely to withstand the economic downturn exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic, with general insurance premium growth in positive territory, Moody’s Investors Service report has said. The report said that general insurance premium growth has...