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The Motley Fool October 30, 2009 Morgan Housel	Tell Me Why You Love Moody's Eroding of a competitive advantage, many believe, is what drove Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway to start selling shares of Moody's earlier this year.
The Motley Fool February 8, 2008 Morgan Housel	The Moody's Blues Debt-ratings agency Moody's watches its earnings and reputation erode, as the once-lucrative business of rating batches of collateralized debt obligations has begun to sour.
BusinessWeek May 28, 2007 David Henry	Buoyant Moody's Moody's has plenty of critics, but it remains massively profitable.
The Motley Fool June 2, 2009 Morgan Housel	I'd Short This Stock David Einhorn, prominent hedge fund manger known for successfully shorting Lehman Brothers, recently disclosed that his firm, Greenlight Capital, is shorting Moody's.
The Motley Fool July 21, 2006 Alex Dumortier	Congress' Move Doesn't Rate With Moody's The market might be overreacting to the prospect of more regulation for ratings agencies. Moody's shares have lost almost 30% since the end of the first quarter. Value investors, take note.
The Motley Fool February 12, 2007 Michael Leibert	All-Weather Moody's Moody's delivers revenue and earnings growth in all kinds of economic conditions. Long-term shareholders would likely find an investment in Moody's to be very rewarding.
The Motley Fool October 27, 2004 Nathan Slaughter	Moody's Moving Forward The credit rating agency thrives as a big fish in a small pond. The stock, which is nearing a 52-week high, will not entice value investors at 28 times this year's earnings, but it is worth the premium price tag.
The Motley Fool April 28, 2004 Nathan Slaughter	Moody's Good Mood The credit-rating agency reports strong first-quarter earnings.
The Motley Fool December 2, 2009 Anand Chokkavelu	Morningstar Has a AAA-Rated Plan Morningstar announced today that it's getting into the credit rating business.
The Motley Fool April 26, 2007 Michael Leibert	Moody's Busy Quarter Moody's stock price has been under pressure this year, as investors have worried about an industry slowdown in mortgage lending. Based on the company's strong first-quarter earnings, those concerns seem at least premature.
The Motley Fool April 27, 2005 Nathan Slaughter	Moody's Does It Again Ratings agency tops expectations again but reaffirms cautious guidance.
The Motley Fool July 29, 2004 W.D. Crotty	Moody's: Shorthand for Wonderful This financial services firm keeps serving up excellence, most recently in its second-quarter report.
The Motley Fool July 15, 2011 Adam J. Crawford	I'm Downgrading Moody's Based on a poor ratings history.
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The Motley Fool February 8, 2008 Morgan Housel	Rating Agencies Begin to Come Clean If any group deserves the most blame for shady practices that gave credence to subprime debt, it might be the rating agencies.
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The Motley Fool April 18, 2011 Alex Dumortier	Revealed: 3 Emails That Explain the Crisis Released last week, a new 650-page Senate report on the financial crisis describes multiple aspects of a financial system run amok, including the way in which bankers muscled ratings agencies to turbo-charge their deal-making machine.
The Motley Fool November 13, 2006 Emil Lee	Bend It Like Buffett: Dissecting Moody's All it takes is a single opportunity to buy shares of Moody's at a discount to reap the benefits of a decade worth of superior returns.
The Motley Fool August 1, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Moody's in a Funk? The debt rater failed to beat earnings estimates last quarter. It was the first time this had happened since way back in first-quarter 2000, and when investors look to Moody's second-quarter 2006 earnings report tomorrow morning, they'll be hoping it was the last.
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U.S. Banker July 2008 Michael Sisk	A `Radical' Answer to Credit-Ratings Conflict The government should remove itself completely from the credit-rating business, stop deciding which company can and can't rate a bond, and stop making institutions pay attention to rating agencies whose work may be shoddy - and, it often turns out, is.
The Motley Fool October 29, 2008 Morgan Housel	Still Struggling at Moody's Has Moody's have suffered a wound that won't heal for years to come?
HBS Working Knowledge August 31, 2009 Martha Lagace	Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies Competition in credit ratings forces raters to favor issuers. This is contrary to the interest of those who rely on ratings to make investment decisions or to regulate.
The Motley Fool April 13, 2009 Alex Dumortier	Credit Quality Is Worst in 25 Years -- Hoorah! The ratio of companies getting downgraded to those being upgraded in the first quarter reached a high mark not seen since 1983. But far from despairing, this announcement contains a hint of optimism. Here's why.
CFO June 1, 2010 Randy Myers	Ratings Disaster Congress takes another stab at reforming the credit-rating agencies, whose AAA seal of approval helped fuel the subprime crisis. But will any change truly make a difference?
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CFO September 1, 2003 Tim Reason	Good to Rate The rating agencies are under review for their failure to downgrade Enron more promptly. The only trouble is, proposed reforms might make things worse.
The Motley Fool December 28, 2007 Rich Duprey	Bonding With Buffett Warren Buffett plans to start a bonding agency for local and state governments.
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The Motley Fool August 11, 2006 Rich Smith	Senators Snookered by Credit Rating Bill? A Senate bill is unlikely to upset the Moody's - S&P debt-rating duopoly. Here's why and what it means to investors.
The Motley Fool May 21, 2010 Morgan Housel	Put the Rating Agencies Out of Their Misery Before It's Too Late Once again, raters have proven themselves stuck on stupid. Congress is waking up. Two amendments in the just-passed Senate financial overhaul bill could euthanize the flawed parts of the rating system.
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