Post-webinar Q&A: Global Credit Risk Trends 2021 and Beyond

What is the best way to calculate country risk which you can use as an input to valuation models? At S&P Global Market Intelligence, we use Country risk scores (CRS) generated by S&P Global Ratings methodology in which we consider different factors such as Economic, Institutional, Financial system, and Payment culture/rule-of-law risks. These CRS are then used in various analyt...

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Jul 2021

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Corporate Credit Risk Macroeconomic Recovery Projections Post-COVID-19

Global markets are approaching new peaks in their economic recovery. In the U.S., continuous government stimulus payments and efficient vaccine roll-outs have further revived both supply and demand for goods and services. Although public companies began publishing financial reports for the second quarter of 2021, the results do not yet show the full extent of the global recover...

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Apr 2021

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Tracking Credit Risk of a Major U.S. Retailer

The Bankruptcy of J. C. Penney Company, Inc. (JCP) JCP is an American department store chain with 840 locations in 49 U.S. states, plus Puerto Rico. Like many U.S retailers, JCP was seriously impacted as soon as the COVID-19 pandemic spread in the U.S. in early 2020. With a significant decline in sales and increasing operating expenses, JCP had already struggled in prior years,...

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