Fitch Ratings has placed the ratings of nine U.S. banking companies and their subsidiaries on Rating Watch Negative, based in its view that they may be more vulnerable to the credit cycle, the rating agency said Friday.The affected banks are: BB&T Corp., Discover Financial Services, Fifth Third Bancorp, KeyCorp, M&T Bank Corp., Popular, Inc., Regions […]
Despite the cautious optimism creeping into the financial markets following the U.S. bank stress tests, Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services says it believes that banks are far from a recovery, and the banking crisis has merely entered a new phase.The rating agency notes that it’s still difficult to predict how long this latest phase will […]
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