Financials: Credit Ratings Agencies -- Companies that Rule the Financial World
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2017
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Credit ratings agencies (CRAs) have the power to move markets, and decide the fortunes of publicly-traded companies around the world.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone welcome to Industry Focus the podcast that dives into a |
| 0:05.4 | different sector of the stock market every day. You're listening to the |
| 0:08.6 | Financial's Edition taped today on Monday June 26 26, 2017. |
| 0:13.0 | My name is Gabby LaPara, and joining me on Skype is Jordan Wothan, the Motley |
| 0:16.8 | Fools Financial expert. |
| 0:18.8 | Hey Jordan, how's it going? |
| 0:20.7 | It's going well. |
| 0:21.1 | How are you, Gabby? |
| 0:22.1 | Pretty good. I had a nice long weekend. I went to a wedding. I got bit by a spider. |
| 0:28.0 | It's been a doozy of a weekend, so I'm definitely excited to be in work. |
| 0:32.0 | How about you? Oh, I just got a to be in work. How about you? |
| 0:33.0 | Oh, I just got a fidget spinner in the mail today, so I'm feeling really good. |
| 0:37.0 | Oh yeah. |
| 0:38.0 | It's what all the kids have, right? |
| 0:40.0 | Something like that, I guess. I don't know. I saw one on Amazon for three dollars so I guess I had to try it out |
| 0:45.7 | Okay, well I would love to know how it goes for you I have some friends who are teachers and they all hate them because they say the kids are constantly messing with |
| 0:53.6 | them in class and like fights break out and it's like prison fights in the school |
| 0:58.5 | because of the fidget spinners it's it's really bad for people of another |
| 1:01.9 | generation I think that would do |
| 1:03.2 | Pokemon cards and for the generation before that that might be marbles. |
| 1:06.5 | The tomagogy I think yeah. Anyway so talking about fights I I don't know, that was a pretty bad segue, it's okay, talking |
| 1:16.6 | about other stuff today on the show, the thing that we're actually here to talk about is credit ratings agencies which we might be |
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