Mississippi Business Journal » ratings http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:51:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Fitch upgrades rating on Old Republic, subsidiaries to ‘positive’ http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/05/28/fitch-upgrades-rating-on-old-republic-subsidiaries-to-positive/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fitch-upgrades-rating-on-old-republic-subsidiaries-to-positive http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/05/28/fitch-upgrades-rating-on-old-republic-subsidiaries-to-positive/#comments Mon, 28 May 2012 16:13:24 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=57702 MADISON — Fitch Ratings has placed the ratings of Old Republic International Corporation’s (ORI) and its insurance company subsidiaries on rating watch positive. The ratings were previously on rating watch negative, where they had been placed Jan. 25, 2012. The rating includes Mississippi Valley Title Insurance Company of Madison, an ORI subsidiary. Fitch wrote in [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/05/28/fitch-upgrades-rating-on-old-republic-subsidiaries-to-positive/feed/ 0 Fitch withdraws ratings on MDOC bonds for prison projects http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/05/15/fitch-withdraws-ratings-on-mdoc-bonds-for-prison-projects/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fitch-withdraws-ratings-on-mdoc-bonds-for-prison-projects http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/05/15/fitch-withdraws-ratings-on-mdoc-bonds-for-prison-projects/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 16:54:18 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=57134 MARSHALL COUNTY and WILKINSON COUNTY — Fitch Ratings has withdrawn its ratings on the following bonds due to pre-refunding activity: • Mississippi Development Bank (MS) (MSLoan Prog-Mississippi Department of Corrections-Marshall County Correctional Facility Refunding Proj) general obligation special obligation bonds series 2008C (all maturities); and • Mississippi Development Bank (MS) (MSLoan Program-Mississippi Department of Corrections [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/05/15/fitch-withdraws-ratings-on-mdoc-bonds-for-prison-projects/feed/ 0 Standard & Poor’s: Prospects For Small Hospitals Better http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/10/05/standard-poor%e2%80%99s-prospects-for-small-hospitals-better/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=standard-poor%25e2%2580%2599s-prospects-for-small-hospitals-better http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/10/05/standard-poor%e2%80%99s-prospects-for-small-hospitals-better/#comments Tue, 05 Oct 2010 14:50:58 +0000 Amy McCullough http://msbusiness.com/?p=31504 SAN FRANCISCO—While not-for-profit small hospitals have improved their operations in the past year, speculative-grade health care providers in the U.S. continue to face many challenges, according to Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services reports. Lower-rated providers face such challenges as operating losses, weak demographics, limited business position, high debt, and low liquidity. Additionally, they often have [...]

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