Moody’s Weighs Rating Cuts for Major Banks

Moody’s Weighs Rating Cuts for Major Banks

Moody’s Investors Service has put Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, UBS and more than 100 other financial institutions on notice.

Citing increasingly challenging market conditions, the credit rating agency said it would review its grades for 114 banks based across Europe, as well as eight other financial institutions based elsewhere, including JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Nomura.

Moody’s indicated it could cut some credit ratings by as much as three levels as it weighed the risks to the banks’ investment banking models and large capital market exposures.

This story, filed from London, was in The New York Times yesterday...and I thank reader Phil Barlett for sending it.  The link is here.