Fitch Web Cast: Stress in the U.S. Capital and Structured Finance Markets, Today, 9am ET.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- Fitch Ratings Fitch Ratings An international rating agency for financial institutions, insurance companies, and corporate, sovereign, and municipal debt. Fitch Ratings has headquarters in New York and London and is wholly owned by FIMALAC of Paris. will host a Web cast today to provide commentary and analysis on credit market liquidity, leveraged finance, stress in the U.S. mortgage market, and the credit derivatives Credit Derivative Privately held negotiable bilateral contracts that allow users to manage their exposure to credit risk. Credit derivatives are financial assets like forward contracts, swaps, and options for which the price is driven by the credit risk of economic agents (private market , starting at 9:00 a.m. ET (2:00 p.m. London time). This Web cast is being broadcast live from Fitch's Morning Credit Brief in New York. The Web cast will consist of three presentations: --Liquidity and Leveraged Finance Trends: How the renewed focus on risk is affecting deals, and an outlook for credit quality, default rates and recovery rates. --Stress in the U.S. Mortgage and Capital Markets: Senior Fitch analysts will discuss how the collapse of the subprime and housing market have affected the broader credit markets and structured finance sector. --Credit Derivatives Update: A state of the state of the CDx market and how it is being affected by the liquidity crunch (1) To process data. See number crunching. (2) To compress data. See data compression. 1. (jargon) crunch - To process, usually in a time-consuming or complicated way. . Interested parties can access the Web cast on the Fitch Ratings' home page www.fitchratings.com the morning of October 17. The web cast can also be accessed directly at http://www.visualwebcaster.com/event.asp?id=41782. Fitch's rating definitions and the terms of use Terms of Use are rules set up by the owner of an intellectual property or service to govern how they may be legally used. In many cases, terms of service are used as a contractual agreement between a company and users of a service they provide. of such ratings are available on the agency's public site, www.fitchratings.com. Published ratings, criteria and methodologies are available from this site, at all times. Fitch's code of conduct, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, affiliate firewall, compliance and other relevant policies and procedures Policies and Procedures are a set of documents that describe an organization's policies for operation and the procedures necessary to fulfill the policies. They are often initiated because of some external requirement, such as environmental compliance or other governmental are also available from the 'Code of Conduct' section of this site. |
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