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Standard & Poor's Fundamentals of Corporate Credit Analysis Blaise, Ganguin
Publisher: McGraw-Hill

While S&P, Moody's and the other mainstream ratings agencies have done a pretty good job on corporate and municipal debt ratings over the past century and more, when it comes to sovereigns and other highly politicized situations, their records are rather poor, if you'll forgive the But in the world of sovereign debt, S&P is forced to evaluate many more subjective facts than are involved in a simple analysis of the probability of default of, say, General Electric or IBM. The study is British website BusinessGreen report significantly, the modelling noted that the three companies focused on oil sands projects have issued $13.6 billion of corporate bonds, with more than 50 per cent of these maturing post-2020. The outlook on the company is negative. Credit ratings published by Moody's, Standard and Poor's and Fitch are meant to capture and categorize credit risk. Many Americans unite and march on the capitol with vats of tar and feathers. "We believe the downfall of Lehman reflected escalating fears that led to a loss of confidence - ultimately becoming a real threat to Lehman's viability in a way that fundamental credit analysis could not have anticipated with greater levels of certainty. Health care and education, as well as massive public sector layoffs at all levels, threatening our default on debt obligations, while demanding that the rich and the corporations pay not a single additional dime in revenue. We will only have a decent country when we liberate ourselves from the corrupt big corporations and the fat cats. There have been many questions about the relationship between the S&P and the US Dollar (USD). The sooner we do it, the less violent and bloody the revolution will be. S&P, meanwhile, has bumped Sino-Forest's corporate credit rating and issue rating on its senior unsecured notes to CCC- from B. According to a new analysis from credit agency Standard & Poor's (S&P) and NGO Carbon Tracker, oil companies could be facing credit downgrades if governments deliver an international agreement to tackle climate change. However, institutional investors in corporate bonds often supplement these agency ratings with their own credit analysis. Standard & Poor's decision to downgrade America's credit rating on Friday is momentous, but not, I suspect, for the reasons most people will cite.