Following a lengthy recovery, the US housing and housing finance markets face a more complex environment in which home affordability is decreasing across broad segments.
In this podcast, Gene Fang, Associate Managing Director for the Sovereign Risk Group, and Michael Taylor, a Managing Director in Credit Strategy & Research, discuss how growing financial vulnerabilities in Asia will likely test the region’s credit fundamentals as financial conditions tighten in some markets, trade tensions persist and China’s economy cools.
In our latest Brexit update, Colin Ellis, MD Credit Strategy, talks about the positive implications of the latest Brexit extension date. However, he highlights the UK government’s on-going failure to achieve parliamentary consensus on the terms of exit from the European Union, the divisions that have begun to occur between EU members for the first time, and what all this means for Moody’s base case scenario for the UK.