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

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. €�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. Fitch Ratings recently (November 6, 2012) upgraded Turkey's long-term foreign currency credit rating to Investment Grade, “BBB-“, which is great news. In this article, I argue that there is a high probability that Turkey will receive an upgrade from S&P or Moody's, therefore achieve a “real” investment grade status “if” the CDS spreads for 5 year Turkish Government Bonds (currently 1.27%) fall below 110 basis points (1.1%). 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. Standard and Poor's on Friday revised the nation's rating downwards to a AA+ with a negative outlook, despite a push back from the White House, which said the rating agency's analysis of the US economy was deeply flawed. 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. (NYSE:CHK) fell as much as 6 percent after S&P downgraded its credit rating of the company to "BB-" from "BB," reflecting shortcomings in Chesapeake's corporate governance practices and covenant concerns. Let's call this “fundamental analysis”. NEW YORK, May 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – S&P Capital IQ announced today that it has commenced Standard & Poor's Factual Stock Report coverage on Tungsten Corp. [Updated] Ratings agency Standard & Poor's [S&P] has lowered its outlook on Bermuda from stable to negative and affirmed its 'AA-/A-1+' long- and short-term issuer credit ratings [ICR] on the island. Though Bermuda has seen its outlook adjusted, like a number of other jurisdictions, the Government said they “pleased that the underlying fundamentals and strengths of our Bermuda economy have been recognised and that we have not been downgraded.”. "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. 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. 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. Wednesday, Standard & Poor's downgraded Greece's sovereign credit rating. What appears to be underway is a possible situation where fundamental and technical analysis signal two very different outcomes. Recent developments, a financial review, key operating information, industry and peer comparisons, institutional holdings analysis, Street Consensus and opinions, performance charts, business summary, fundamental data, and What you will be supposed to do when sued · What Is Utility Credit? 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 Financial Services division represented 44% of revenues and 73% of operating profit in 2009.