POSITIVE Press Releases

TOKYO (S&P Global Ratings) April 19, 2018--S&P Global Ratings today said it has revised to positive from stable the outlook on its long-term corporate credit rating on Japan-based regulated electric utility company Tokyo Electric Power Company

TMB Bank Public Company Limited today announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2018. The results showed positive momentum in both deposit and loan growths as well as its prudent management of asset quality. TMB generated THB5,109 million

MELBOURNE (S&P Global Ratings) April 18, 2018--S&P Global Ratings said today that it had affirmed the issuer credit rating and associated issue rating on Alumina Ltd. at 'BB+'. The outlook on the long-term rating is positive. The recovery rating

NEW YORK (S&P Global Ratings) April 17, 2018--S&P Global Ratings said today it revised its outlook on 17 U.S.-domiciled subsidiaries of Japanese insurer Tokio Marine after revising the outlook on our 'A+' long-term rating on Tokio Marine &

SINGAPORE (S&P Global Ratings) April 17, 2018--S&P Global Ratings said today that it revised the outlook on four Asian subsidiaries of Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co. Ltd. (TMNF) to positive from stable. The four entities are Tokio

TOKYO (S&P Global Ratings) April 17, 2018--S&P Global Ratings today said that it has revised to positive from stable its outlooks on its long-term issuer credit ratings on seven subsidiaries of Japan-based Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc.

SCB Securities Co., Ltd. (SCBS) is maintaining a positive perspective on the direction of the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET), reiterating their earlier projection that the SET composite index will reach 1,900 points by late this year, boosted by state

MEXICO CITY (S&P Global Ratings) April 16, 2018--S&P Global Ratings affirmed its long-term CaVal (Mexico) national scale 'mxA-' rating on the state of Nuevo León. The outlook remains positive. OUTLOOK The positive outlook reflects our

NEW YORK (S&P Global Ratings) April 16, 2018--S&P Global Ratings today affirmed its 'CCC' corporate credit rating on Oklahoma City, Oklahoma-based LSB Industries Inc. and revised the outlook to positive from negative. We also assigned a 'CCC'

NEW YORK (S&P Global Ratings) April 11, 2018--S&P Global Ratings today raised its corporate credit rating on Dallas-based Fastlane Holding Co. Inc. to 'B-' from 'CCC+' and removed the rating from CreditWatch, where we placed it with positive

LONDON (S&P Global Ratings) April 11, 2018--S&P Global Ratings said today that it affirmed its 'BB' long-term issuer credit rating on U.K.-based residential real estate company Grainger PLC. The outlook remains positive. We also assigned our

CENTENNIAL (S&P Global Ratings) April 10, 2018--S&P Global Ratings revised its outlook to positive from stable and affirmed its 'AA-' long-term rating and underlying rating (SPUR) on West Contra Costa Unified School District, Calif.'s general

NEW YORK (S&P Global Ratings) April 10, 2018-- S&P Global Ratings today placed its 'B-' long-term corporate credit and issue ratings on Federal-Mogul LLC and the company's debt on CreditWatch with positive implications. The CreditWatch placement

CENTENNIAL (S&P Global Ratings) April 9, 2018--S&P Global Ratings revised its outlook to positive from stable and affirmed its 'A-' long-term rating on the Lorain County Port Authority, Ohio's series 2013A health care facilities revenue bonds,

SAO PAULO (S&P Global Ratings) April 9, 2018--S&P Global Ratings placed its 'B+' global scale and 'brA-' national scale corporate credit ratings on Marfrig Global Foods S.A. (Marfrig) on CreditWatch with positive implications. We also placed

Mitsubishi Motors (Thailand) Co., Ltd. today announced a successful outing at the recent 39th Bangkok International Motorshow 2018, recording a total booking of 2,108 units. This represented an increase of 21.6 percent over the 2017 event. "We continue

MELBOURNE (S&P Global Ratings) April 9, 2018--S&P Global Ratings placed its 'B-' long-term corporate credit and issue ratings on Atlas Iron Ltd. and the company's debt on CreditWatch with positive implications. The CreditWatch placement follows

Adopting artificial intelligence for growth and positive social impact means forming new partnerships with customers and business partners Rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and other technologies are accelerating the creation of intelligent

HONG KONG (S&P Global Ratings) April 3, 2018--S&P Global Ratings today said it has revised its rating outlook on China Evergrande Group (Evergrande) to positive from stable. At the same time, we affirmed our 'B' long-term issuer credit rating on

HONG KONG (S&P Global Ratings) March 30, 2018--S&P Global Ratings said today that it had revised its outlook on Hyundai Glovis Co. Ltd. to positive from stable. At the same time, we affirmed our 'BBB+' long-term issuer credit rating on the

This year's Aluminium China exhibition and conference in July, organized by Reed Exhibitions China, will provide a platform for China's rapidly changing and expanding aluminium industry, showcasing new state-of-the-art processes and products. Since the

HONG KONG (S&P Global Ratings) March 29, 2018--S&P Global Ratings today revised the rating outlook on China-based property developer Longfor Properties Co. Ltd. to positive from stable. At the same time, we affirmed our 'BBB-' long-term corporate

Performance under the ECF-supported program is positive overall.Economic growth is projected at 5.0 percent in 2018, and prudent monetary policy is helping to contain inflation.Scaling-up public investment, accelerating reforms at JIRAMA, and passing

Jakarta, March 27, 2018 – Indonesia maintained strong economic growth in 2017 and the outlook continues to be positive, according to the World Bank's March 2018 Indonesia Economic Quarterly. Indonesia's real GDP growth picked up to 5.2 percent

SAN FRANCISCO (S&P Global Ratings) March 21, 2018--S&P Global Ratings revised its outlook to positive from negative on Milliken Fire Protection District, Colo.'s series 2012 general obligation (GO) refunding bonds. At the same time, S&P

Announces first-ever Sansiri Global Agent Summit 2018, affirming positive outlook on Thailand's real estate sector by extending strong partnerships with international agents Sansiri Public Company Limited, Thailand's leading full service real estate

NEW YORK (S&P Global Ratings) March 19, 2018--S&P Global Ratings today placed its ratings on Coeur d'Alene, Idaho-based silver and gold producer Hecla Mining Co., including the 'B' corporate credit rating, on CreditWatch with positive

- Cambodia's near-term economic outlook remains positive with GDP growth at around 7 percent. - Policies should focus on managing macro-financial risks, safeguarding fiscal sustainability and advancing reforms to support growth, resilience and

MOSCOW (S&P Global Ratings) March 13, 2018--S&P Global Ratings said today that it has revised its outlooks on Russia-based insurers--OJSC Sogaz, Ingosstrakh Insurance Co., and Insurance Company RESO-GARANTIA--to positive from stable. At the same

CHICAGO (S&P Global Ratings) March 13, 2018--S&P Global Ratings revised its outlook to positive from stable and affirmed its 'BB' long-term rating on Michigan Finance Authority's series 2014 limited obligation revenue bond issued for the Thomas