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

FEATURED Standard & Poor's Fundamentals of Corporate Credit Analysis. And only point us towards a simpler way of addressing the problem: Standard and Poor's is a self-interested corporate entity and it is acting in accordance with what it perceives its self-interest to be, in precisely the way that self-interested corporate entities will consistently do. Will be vulnerable to the sluggish economic growth apparent in the major developed markets, and to China's lower plateau for GDP growth," says Simon Wong, a vice president and senior analyst with Moody's Corporate Finance Group. 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. 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. In this regard, when the May warning was given the UK government, the relevant Standard & Poor's credit analyst said that: The rating could be lowered if we conclude that, following the . Perhaps because I'm not an economist, I can't at all interest myself in the question of whether the US “deserved” to have its credit rating downgraded (as Standard and Poor's has done). The ratings agencies have admitted to US government enquiries recently that they took money in return for ratings that were not based on any fundamental assessments other than the cash they were being paid. Meanwhile, Moody's Investors Service says sovereign credit fundamentals in Southeast and South Asia should remain relatively resilient to headwinds during 2013, but warned that each country would face its own specific problems. Eric Hugel was most recently a Managing Director at Stephens and joins S&P Capital IQ as an aerospace and defense equity analyst. 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.