May 7, 2024
Insuring tomorrow: 10 risks transforming the industry
As losses climb, Moody’s outlines the key threats facing the insurance business.
As losses climb, Moody’s outlines the key threats facing the insurance business.
Apple’s turn to India. Tesla’s gigafactory in Mexico. HP’s move to build laptops in Vietnam. Economic decoupling between the U.S. and China is accelerating, introducing new risks as companies diversify their supply chains to other nations.
Here is what the 550 international experts told Moody’s.
Moody’s Shell Company Indicator analyzes data of more than 475 million companies and millions of individuals to identify shell companies that are potentially being misused for illegal purposes.
The Big Five’s record profits and cash flows have bolstered their balance sheets. How they allocate capital and manage debt in an evolving energy landscape — while navigating competing global priorities around energy security and energy transition — will be key for their future.
Total debt held by sectors with high or very high environmental credit risk now exceeds $4 trillion, more than double the $2 trillion held in 2015 when the Paris Agreement climate change accord was signed, according to Moody’s latest environmental risk analysis.
The US rent-to-income (RTI) ratio declined by 0.5% in Q3 from the previous quarter, finishing at 30% — a level that is considered rent burdened.
A favored form of cryptocurrency within digital finance, stablecoins, although designed to maintain a constant value, have not always lived up to their promised stability.
Moody’s 2023 cyber survey gauges the cybersecurity practices of debt issuers across 71 global sectors.
Last year, the share of American household income needed to rent an average-priced apartment crossed the rent-burdening 30% threshold for the first time in Moody’s nearly 25 years of tracking.