Debt Analysis and Bond ratings Readings

Altman et al: Zeta Analysis A New Model To Identify Bankruptcy Risk Of Corporations

Altman-Slides-Credit Scoring Models

Rates and Ratings

Bond Boom's Thin Ice

Bonds Suffer Subprime Hit Credit-card-quiz 

CreditStats Final Adjusted Key U.S. Industrial Financial Ratios

CreditStats Adjusted Key U.S. Industrial Financial Ratios 200 to 2002

CreditStats: Operating Lease Analytical Model

Ford-Navigates-Path-to-Profitability

Hunting the Nearly Extinct AAA

Junk Turns Gold n, But May B Lac d With Tinsel

Municipal-Bond-Fans-Get-a-Rude-Awakening-Feb-205

Now G.M. Has Woes on Audits

Ratings Can Spark Triple Trouble

Ratings Cuts By S&P, Moody's

Triple-A Ratings Grade on a Curve

Raters and standards

Big Bond Rally Isn't in Bonds

Commentary: Conflicts and the Credit Crunch by Arthur Leavitt

Congress-Takes-On-Credit-Ratings

Moody's Faces the Storm

Moody's, S&P Still Hold Advantage

Ohio-Sues-Credit-Rating-Agencies-for-Pension-Fund-Losses

Rating agencies lose free-speech claim

SEC Aims to Rein In The Role of Ratings

SEC-Select-Credit-Rating-Agencies.pdf

SEC-Role and Function of Credit Rating Agencies

Triple-A Failure

S&P: • Corporate Ratings criteria (114pgs) • Rating methodology (35 pgs) • S&P Ratings and Ratios (7 pgs)

S&P-2008 Corporate Criteria Analytical Methodology

S&P-Credit Spreads Composite Overview and Methodology

Moodys: • Moodys rating process • Public Firm Risk Model

Links
DefaultRisk.com • Frontline Special http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/credit/
Federal Reserve Board - Interest rates

Bond Ratings and Prices: http://cxa.marketwatch.com/finra/BondCenter/Default.aspx