Debt Analysis and Bond ratings Readings

Municipal-Bond Fans Get a Rude Awakening

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

Rates and Ratings

Credit-card-quiz 

Credit-Spreads

CreditStats: Final Adjusted Key U.S. Industrial Financial Ratios

CreditStats: Operating Lease Analytical Model
CreditStats: Adjusted Key U.S. Industrial Financial Ratios 2004
CreditStats: Adjusted Key U.S. Industrial Financial Ratios 2003

Hunting the Nearly Extinct 'AAA' May 10 2005

Junk Turns Golden, But May Be Laced With Tinsel

Losing Money by Buying Stock Back

Ratings Can Spark Triple Trouble

Triple-A Ratings Grade on a Curve

Raters and standards

Commentary: Conflicts and the Credit Crunch by Arthur Leavitt

Moody's, S&P Still Hold Advantage

Big Bond Rally Isn't in Bonds, But in the Raters January 2006

FASB Agrees to Delay, Clarify Ruling on Writing Down Debt

Triple-A Failure

S&P: • Corporate criteria (100+ pgs) • Rating methodology (35 pgs) • S&P Ratings and Ratios (7 pgs)

Moodys: • Moodys rating process • Public Firm Risk Model

SEC Report on the Role and Function of Credit Markets

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