...This special edition of Credit at a Glance ¡ Asia Corporates highlights the full suite of 2015 Outlook reports recently published by Fitch Ratings' APAC corporates team. Details of any particular outlook report can be obtained by clicking on the report title links in Figure 1. Fitch distinguishes between the outlook for sectors as a whole and for its universe of rated entities within a sector. Of the 28 industry specific outlook reports published, six have negative sector outlooks, but only two ¡ Chinese Department Stores and Malaysia Telecommunications ¡ have negative rating outlooks. The higher proportion of stable rating outlooks shows that our rated universe of corporates in APAC tends to comprise the stronger and more dominant entities within their sector, with ratings already taking into account many of the foreseeable downside risks....
