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

It's totally fair for S&P to factor politics into their assessment of sovereign debt. Donald Marron: S&P's 2 Trillion Dollar Error: The error is understandable but remarkably sloppy for such an important analysis. And these people are pronouncing on US credit-worthiness? 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. So far, May 2013 has been a gambler's paradise, in which a whopping 76.9% of the trading days for the S&P 500 have been up: The chart below shows just how far 2013's up day percentage exceeds previous years:. Many Americans unite and march on the capitol with vats of tar and feathers. The sooner we do it, the less violent and bloody the revolution will be. On Monday Standard & Poor's announced that its credit rating for the United States was “affirmed” at AAA (the highest level possible), but that it was revising the outlook for this rating to “negative” – in this context specifically meaning “that we could The main problem is that S&P did not lay out even the most basic numbers or even point readers towards the nonpartisan and definitive Congressional Budget Office analysis of medium- and longer-term budget issues. Another POMO, another dip bought, another all-time high in the S&P 500 but we are sure there is some disappointment that the '1600' caps have to go back in the closet for one more day. An authoritative, in-depth guide to all aspects of credit analysis from the experts at Standard & Poor's Credit analysis--gauging an issuer's ability to repay interest and principal on a bond iss. We will only have a decent country when we liberate ourselves from the corrupt big corporations and the fat cats. (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.