About Moody's Analytics
Economic & Consumer Credit Analytics
Moody’s Analytics helps capital markets and credit risk management professionals worldwide respond to an evolving marketplace with confidence. Through its team of economists, Moody’s Analytics is a leading independent provider of data, analysis, modeling and forecasts on national and regional economies, financial markets, and credit risk. Download our Overview Brochure.
Moody’s Analytics tracks and analyzes trends in consumer credit and spending, output and income, mortgage activity, population, central bank behavior, and prices. Our customized models, concise and timely reports, and one of the largest assembled financial, economic and demographic databases support firms and policymakers in strategic planning, product and sales forecasting, credit risk and sensitivity management, and investment research. Our products and solutions are used by more than 800 major corporations worldwide representing a broad range of industries including banking, government, asset management, real estate, utilities, and retail. We offer a variety of standard and customizable services to help our clients – from the experienced modeler to the busy executive – make more informed business decisions.
Our web and print periodicals and special publications cover every U.S. state and metropolitan area; countries throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas; and the world's major cities, plus the U.S. housing market and other industries. From our offices in the U.S., the United Kingdom, and Australia, we provide up-to-the-minute reporting and analysis on the world's major economies.
Moody’s Analytics added Economy.com to its portfolio in 2005. Its economics and consumer credit analytics arm is based in West Chester PA, a suburb of Philadelphia, with offices in London and Sydney.
Our Mission
To provide insightful analysis, timely data and actionable products
on the world economy and financial markets.
Our Commitment
Our customer service is widely acknowledged as the best in the economics consulting industry. Over 90% of our customers renew their services, and our main source of new business is word-of-mouth recommendation. Our customers know that we honor our pledge to:
- Ensure our customers’ complete satisfaction.
- Uphold the highest standards of business ethics.
- Continually improve our products and services to anticipate our customers’ evolving needs.
- Offer unparalleled choice and customization to meet customers’ diverse requirements.
- Continually broaden how our products can be customized through the latest technology.
- Make our economists and representatives easily and conveniently accessible.
- Actively solicit our customers’ views as we design new products and improve existing ones.
Moody’s Analytics helps capital markets and credit risk management professionals worldwide respond to an evolving marketplace with confidence. The company offers unique tools and best practices for measuring and managing risk through expertise and experience in credit analysis, economic research and financial risk management. By providing leading-edge software, advisory services, and research, including the proprietary analysis of Moody’s Investors Service, Moody’s Analytics integrates and customizes its offerings to address specific business challenges. Moody's Analytics is a subsidiary of Moody's Corporation (NYSE: MCO), which reported revenue of $1.8 billion in 2009, employs approximately 4,300 people worldwide and maintains a presence in 26 countries. Additional information about the company is available at www.moodysanalytics.com.
“What to do with Fannie and Freddie going forward? Some call for dismantling them completely and leaving housing finance to the private market. Yet considering how private firms handled other parts of the mortgage market, and acknowledging the many positive externalities that housing has for the economy, this is a doubtful prescription. It would be more prudent to return the institutions to their roots, running them like regulated utilities.”
–Cristian deRitis, "What to Do About Aunt Fan and Uncle Fred" -10/24/2008
“It is also conceivable that an oft-cited benefit of the MBS market, namely its ability to diffuse mortgage credit risk more widely, is also a drawback. Risk is now so diffuse that it is unclear to investors who is bearing the risk and to what degree. If even a single investor visibly stumbles when credit quality erodes, liquidity in the market could quickly evaporate. Other investors, not knowing who is next to suffer, may decide not to engage in further transactions until the proverbial dust clears.”
–Mark Zandi, "Housing Will Correct, Not Crash (Hopefully)" -10/23/2006
"The Federal Reserve should gear up the regulatory machinery …[H]istory strongly suggests that it is in the best of times, when nothing could seemingly go wrong, that mistakes, big mistakes, are made. For the housing and mortgage markets these are the best of times."
--Mark Zandi, "Where are the Regulators?" -11/1/2005
