Middle East

Highlights

5 Nov 2019
- Global Emerging Markets Chartbook: Coverage of emerging markets is expanding
  Pressures at sovereign level, particularly in Argentina and Turkey, had a meaningful impact on rating trends in global emerging markets over the past nine months. Downgrades outweighed upgrades across investment-grade and high-yield corporates. Full Report
1 Nov 2019
- Global Emerging Markets LSI improves to 19.0% in September from 20.3% in March
  The EM APAC sub-indicator strengthened to 33.1% (from 39.1%) but remains elevated. EM Latin America (7.1%) also improved (from 8.5%), but EM Europe weakened to 8.8% (from 2.9%). Full Report
21 Oct 2019
- Emerging market covenant quality scores weaken further as Chinese bonds dominate issuance
  The average covenant quality score for full-package emerging markets bonds issued during the six months to 30 September 2019 weakened to 3.35 (moderate ↓) from 3.25 (moderate ↓) for the previous six months. Full Report

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Date	Document Type	Title	Issuer/Entity
27 Jan 2020	Rating Action	Moody's affirms ratings of National Bank of Bahrain and Bahrain Islamic Bank	Bahrain Islamic... National Bank o...
27 Jan 2020	Credit Opinion	Kuwait Finance House K.S.C.P.: Update following rating action	Kuwait Finance House K.S.C.P.
26 Jan 2020	Compilation	Credit Outlook: 27 January 2020
24 Jan 2020	Credit Opinion	Government of Qatar – Aa3 stable: Regular update	Qatar, Government of
24 Jan 2020	Announcement of Periodic Review	Moody's announces completion of a periodic review of ratings of Emirates Telecommunications Grp Co PJSC	Emirates Telecommunications Grp Co PJSC
23 Jan 2020	Default Report	Structured Finance: The performance of Moody's structured finance ratings - Q4 2019 - Excel Supplement
23 Jan 2020	Default Report	December 2019 Structured Rating Transitions - Excel Supplement
23 Jan 2020	Market Outlook	How Corporate Credit Might Burst an Equity Bubble (Capital Markets Research) (Weekly Market Outlook)
23 Jan 2020	Rating Action	Moody's affirms ratings of two Kuwaiti banks - Kuwait Finance House K.S.C.P. and Ahli United Bank K.S.C.P; changes outlook to positive on one	Ahli United Ban... Kuwait Finance ...
23 Jan 2020	Issuer Comment	Oman Arab Bank (SAOC): New progress towards planned merger of Oman Arab Bank and Alizz Islamic Bank is credit positive	Oman Arab Bank (SAOC)

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