...In January, we published a collation of summary extracts from our recent corporate sector outlooks for 2015, providing a single point of reference and summarising our near-term rating and sector credit expectations. We also published an interactive summary of our recent series of Credit Outlook seminars that took place in Europe between 13 and 22 January, bringing together 10 presentations, eight videos and links to 44 related research reports, providing a comprehensive perspective on credit markets for 2015 and beyond. Our latest EMEA Corporate View highlighted that geopolitical risks, deflation fears and weaker growth prospects will, to varying degrees, affect the outlook for EMEA corporate issuers in 2015. Within the eurozone periphery, smaller companies in the 'B' rating category are likely to be worse affected than large investment-grade corporates in a deflation scenario. We also expect slightly higher leverage across EMEA emerging market (EM) corporate issuers. Sustained low oil...
