Fitch Ratings

Home prices in North American and Latin America will maintain solid growth in 2025, with Canada, Brazil, Mexico and Colombia seeing some of the strongest price growth of the countries covered in Fitch Ratings’ Global Housing and Mortgage Outlook 2025. Learn More: https://ow.ly/fkea50Us1v3 View the full report: https://ow.ly/KXyq50Us1v1 #HousingMarket #MortgageTrends #FitchRatings #FitchOutlooks2025

The expectation of a more favorable regulatory environment, pent up deal demand, stronger equity valuations and stable debt markets are likely to drive significantly higher M&A and capital markets activity among community banks in 2025. These and other topics were recently discussed by the panel of industry experts at Fitch’s recent community bank forum, “The Future of Community Banks and why it Matters." See our event recap here: https://ow.ly/5AVX50UtGfX For more insights from Fitch on community banks, read our recent report: https://ow.ly/CYfj50UtG6L #FitchRatings #Banks #CommunityBanks

Average home prices will continue falling in China over 2025, while they grow marginally in Japan and more robustly in Australia at a pace similar to 2024, says Fitch Ratings. Late-stage arrear trends in 2025-2026 will vary significantly across the three markets, falling in Australia but remaining stable in China and deteriorating in Japan. Read more: https://ow.ly/pB0g50UtUGe Related outlook report: https://ow.ly/EJKB50UtUGi Related podcast: https://ow.ly/MB9B50UtUGh #FitchOutlooks2025 #CreditOutlook #apac #homeprice

Fitch Ratings' 'neutral' outlook for the global medical devices, diagnostics, and products sector in 2025 reflects expectations of a generally stable operating environment. Learn more: https://ow.ly/3rpw50Uty8a #FitchOutlooks2025 #CreditOutlook #Healthcare #MedicalDevice

Asia-Pacific faces headwinds from rising US protectionism in 2025, but regional growth will slow only moderately and many sovereigns have rebuilt external liquidity buffers, Fitch Ratings says. Fiscal consolidation is likely to be modest, causing debt/GDP to climb in just over half of Fitch’s rated portfolio. Read more: https://ow.ly/Tn3f50Ut9Zs More on outlook series: https://ow.ly/qseR50Ut9Zu #FitchOutlooks2025 #CreditOutlook #apac

Operating results for U.S. non-bank mortgage companies are poised to improve in 2025 with higher origination volumes supported by lower interest and mortgage rates and stronger gain-on-sale margins given reduced industry capacity. Continued consolidation will further benefit the largest originators, which have strengthened their franchises and will be able to take advantage of their competitive positions as industry volumes increase. Learn more: https://ow.ly/4PQO50UscHc #FitchRatings #NonBanks

“P/C insurers are anticipated to generate a statutory underwriting profit and modestly higher net income in 2025,” said Managing Director James Auden in the U.S. Property/Casualty Insurance Outlook 2025. “Capital strength and prudent risk management practices for the broad universe of insurers are key factors promoting operating and rating stability amid ongoing challenges in managing wider spread natural catastrophe events and exposures and claims uncertainty in casualty lines.” Learn more in our #CreditOutlook: https://ow.ly/i78r50Uqhz6 #FitchRatings #FitchOutlooks2025 #Insurance

Join Kevin Kendra, Head of North America RMBS, Alessandro Pighi, Head of EMEA RMBS & Ben McCarthy, Head of APAC SF, as they discuss the Global Housing and Mortgage Outlook for 2025. Explore home price growth, performance trends & key issues to watch. Listen Now: https://ow.ly/Y9mp50UsB98 View full report: https://ow.ly/ViXi50UsB99

Fitch's North American Leveraged Finance outlook for 2025 is neutral. This is based on individual sector outlooks, default forecasts, economic conditions, percentage of negative outlooks and watches, and developments in related markets such as structured credit. Learn more: https://ow.ly/CIpP50UsbqJ #FitchOutlooks2025 #CreditOutlook #LevFin #Outlook

Fitch Ratings expects world growth to ease slightly in 2025 to 2.6%, a forecast broadly unchanged since our September 2024 Global Economic Outlook (GEO). But relative stability in the forecast at the global level masks some big forecast changes in the major economies: - We have raised US growth in 2025 by 0.5pp to 2.1% - The forecast for eurozone growth has been lowered by 0.3pp to 1.2%. - We have also cut China’s 2025 forecast, by 0.2pp to 4.3%. Learn more and download an excerpt of our GEO report here: https://ow.ly/lFXA50UsNPa View our recent Fixed Interest podcast discussing the report findings: https://ow.ly/OW5X50UsNPc #FitchRatings #FitchOutlooks2025 #CreditOutlook