European authorities have made further progress in reducing credit risks in the euro area. However, recent reforms fail to fully address the credit linkages between sovereigns and banks, while pockets of risk remain in both sectors.

The US Federal Reserve will resort to unconventional policy tools more frequently, as the low neutral interest rate environment is becoming the new normal for the US economy.

Colombia's economic activity is poised for a moderate pickup over the next two years, a credit positive for the sovereign. However, the faster recovery will not fully compensate for significant sector-specific risks that remain elsewhere.

Emerging market corporate sectors face some common risks in 2019, including slower global growth, variable market sentiment, shifts in trade policies, and geopolitical and ESG risks.

Our credit view of Argentina reflects its large and relatively wealthy economy against rising policy uncertainty and the risk it poses for increased financing pressures and eroding buffers.

In a new cross-sector report we study the effects of corruption, commodity prices and portfolio flows, technological disruption, and skills gaps on Latin America’s business, finance and macro-economic conditions.

The latest developments are a further illustration of the erosion of the central bank's independence in terms of setting monetary policy and also the country's institutional strength.

China’s economy-wide leverage is likely to continue rising, with pockets of financial stress developing periodically for some local banks or State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs).

Removing tariffs will benefit US aluminum producers. The country is not self-sufficient in aluminum and significant amount comes from Canada, also intercompany flows US and Canada.

China's increase in retaliatory tariffs on $60 billion of imports from the US is credit negative for vulnerable US industries, some US states dependent on agriculture and US ports.

Increased US tariffs on about $200 billion of imports from China to 25% from 10% significantly escalates the US-China trade dispute.

Uncertainty over the outcome of trade negotiations poses a key risk to the global economic outlook.

The independence of the central bank, as well as the government's unwillingness or inability to implement policies that will sustain external investors' confidence, remain a concern.

Unpredictable policymaking is undermining investor confidence and medium-term economic prospects. Lower growth, together with changes to energy polic introduce risks to Mexico's medium-term fiscal outlook.

The European parliamentary election outcome has no direct implication for our credit view on the EU or euro area as a whole, but increases the risk of early elections in Italy.

Structurally low growth, fiscal strength eroding but a number of factors insulate the sovereign's credit profile from financing shocks.

New technologies are blurring the lines between industrial hardware and software companies, while customers are still uncertain about how to make use of digitalization.

Lack of demand and a clear business case for deployment are likely to slow adoption and rollout. Implementation of 5G will also involve network reconfiguration and business model changes.

In this episode of Moody's Talks, Associate Managing Director Gene Fang and Assistant Vice President Christian Fang, both of the Sovereign Risk Group, discuss the impact of artificial intelligence on government credit quality.

The rise of competing hybrid systems by other automakers and continued diversification of the product mean that it is still uncertain how much Toyota will benefit from its patent release.

In this podcast, we discuss how the credit strength of insurers and banks across the globe can be affected by environmental, social and governance risks.​

Various central government initiatives have strengthened governance standards. We expect this trend to lead to higher liquidity buffers, lower leverage and improved policy predictability, which will in turn improve creditworthiness in the long term.

Shipping companies have options to meet the new, stricter emissions standards, effective January 2020, but all are costly with additional capital or higher operating costs.

The US electricity sector faces a major transformation due to declines in both natural gas prices and the cost of renewable generation. These changes are important to long-term credit of electric, gas and other related sectors.