With historically low interest rates before the recent market crash, corporate debt has skyrocketed. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Nonfinancial Corporate Business Debt has eclipsed $6.5 Trillion. Low interest rates have given rise to “zombie corporations.” A “zombie corporation” only generates enough revenue to service its own debt, and as a result, […]
Boeing cash crunch is looking more serious than it was a month ago, and its credit rating has been downgraded to reflect that. S&P Ratings downgraded Boeing’s credit rating by two notches on Monday, to BBB from AA-, leaving it just two notches above junk. The analysts also left Boeing’s rating on watch for more […]
US companies will soon lose their coveted top-quality credit ratings, sending their debt tumbling into the rating category known as “junk.” A cut in rating below investment-grade — marked by the threshold between triple B and double B — indicates a stern warning from the likes of Moody’s and S&P Global for companies to improve […]
Aidikoff, Uhl & Bakhtiari is investigating the over-concentration of investor accounts in the oil and gas sector. On Monday, March 9, 2020 the price of oil made its most significant one day moves since the 1991 Gulf War plummeting by more than 30 percent. As a consequence, investor portfolios that have excessive exposure to the oil and gas industries have sustained unnecessary significant losses.
With the influx in volatility and the arrival of the U.S. stock market’s first Bear Market in more than a decade, those trading on margin may be exposed to forced liquidations and/or margin calls following the market’s recent, aggressive selloff. Broker-dealers require those trading on margin to maintain as collateral a specified percentage of qualified […]