Standard & Poor's Fundamentals of Corporate Credit Analysis by Blaise, Ganguin

Standard & Poor's Fundamentals of Corporate Credit Analysis Blaise, Ganguin ebook
Page: 463
Format: pdf
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
ISBN: 0071454586,

Credit rating agency Standard & Poor's on Monday upgraded its credit outlook for the United States government to stable from negative, saying the chances of a downgrade of the country's rating is less than one in three. The period from 2003 to 2008 was the biggest credit bubble in history, not just in the US but worldwide. €�We have concerns that HP's inconsistent growth strategies and high levels of board of director and senior management turnover have elevated the level of operational and execution risk in the near term,” S&P analyst Martha Toll Reed said in a statement. Daily June E-mini S&P 500 Index. This may be a sign of overbought technical conditions, but the fundamentals remain too strong to buck the trend or try to predict a top. The Fed has been feeding the long side of the market with its low interest rate policy and its aggressive asset buying program. S&P's report is titled “Emerging market Credit Metrics: Ratings Trends in China Turn Negative.” The report is from the Global Fixed Income Research unit and S&P points out that corporate downgrades are edging up as investors continue to wait for China to inject more stimulus. Farfetched, please consider a few fundamentals. Think what rising unemployment will do to foreclosures, defaults on credit cards, bankruptcies, commercial real estate, and corporate earnings. At the same time S&P tweaked the Origin parent company's long term corporate credit and senior-unsecured debt ratings to BBB from BBB+ and moved the outlook from negative to stable. In July of 2001, S&P published a public bond default study which found that public bonds default at much lower rates than corporate bonds of similar or higher credit ratings. What appears to be underway is a possible situation where fundamental and technical analysis signal two very different outcomes. The credit risk tools are designed to help assess The company is also offering customisable analysis templates, including a credit surveillance template, that use an Excel plug-in to bring together company fundamental data and credit indicators from the platform in an Excel interface. S&P Capital IQ will go live with a suite of credit risk assessment tools on its online research, data and news platform on Monday, April 29. A consumer credit report is on tap today, but the main focus for traders will remain the accommodative policies from the Federal Reserve and strong corporate earnings. S&P Capital IQ equity analyst Michael Souers "believes most publicly traded builders are in a stable competitive position after cutting costs, retiring debt and growing cash positions," according to a new research note issued by the firm. "The change to a stable outlook on SLF is driven primarily by the improvement in Sun Life's after-tax net operating income to $1.679 billion in 2012," said Standard & Poor's credit analyst Robert Hafner. It is unrealistic to expect the bust to be anything other than the biggest credit bust in history. Credit rating agency Standard & Poor's downgraded Hewlett-Packard's credit rating earlier this week, citing poor policies, a high turnover rate among top executives and an unclear strategy. The research firm has a negative fundamental outlook for the homebuilding sub-industry for the next 12 months and has an Underweight rating on ITB.