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This week 17 August 2026

What moved on the register

Re-ratings climbed sharply this week — 18,124, up from 14,538 — and the clearest signal sat in the credit-leaning half: real estate took 1.7x its share of this period's re-ratings across 561 companies, with accommodation matching that lift on a smaller base of 28. On the exit-leaning side, legal & accounting was the sturdiest over-representation at 1.4x across 42 companies; electronics manufacturing and printing posted higher lifts but on numbers too thin (8 and 9) to hang a story on. Among live pattern matches, sector laggard led the week at 427 hits, ahead of quiet compounder and debtor heavy — the detail behind those counts is where the real read is.

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