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Impacts of Low Prices on Natural Gas Liquids Processors (DCP, DPM, EPD, MWE, OGE, RGP, SEC, ETE, WES, WPZ)

Posted: August 28, 2012 at 1:31 pm

Since the end of 2011 prices for natural gas liquids (NGLs) have fallen sharply from about 65% of the WTI crude price to below 50% of the WTI price in ...
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Chesapeake Debt Downgraded at Fitch

Posted: May 21, 2012 at 7:02 am

Late last Friday, credit rating firm Fitch Ratings downgraded the already low corporate credit rating of Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK) from ‘BB’ to ‘BB-’. The firm also lowered its ...
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S&P Drops Chesapeake’s Credit Rating

Posted: May 15, 2012 at 10:01 am

Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s this morning lowered the corporate credit rating of Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK) from ‘BB’ to ‘BB-’, and put the company on negative credit watch. ...
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Lowered Forecast Hammers D&B (DNB, EFX, FICO, MCO, MHP)

Posted: May 8, 2012 at 10:50 am

Dun & Bradstreet Corp. (NYSE: DNB), one of the venerable names in business and credit data, is taking some lumps this morning following lowered fiscal year forecast and the closure ...
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S&P Cuts Outlook on Coal Miner (CNX, ACI, ANR, WLT)

Posted: May 4, 2012 at 1:14 pm

Ratings agency S&P has lowered its outlook on coal miner Consol Energy Corp. (NYSE: CNX) from ‘positive’ to ‘stable’, while maintaining a ‘BB’ junk rating on the company’s debt. Earlier ...
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Arch Coal Credit Downgrade (ACI)

Posted: May 2, 2012 at 2:56 pm

Another shoe dropped for Arch Coal Inc. (NYSE: ACI) today as Fitch Ratings has lowered the company’s credit rating to ‘B+’, four notches below investment grade. The rating follows yesterday’s ...
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S&P Puts Arch Coal on Negative Watch (ACI, PCX, JRCC, ANR, BTU)

Posted: April 25, 2012 at 11:52 am

Credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s has put coal miner Arch Coal Inc. (NYSE: ACI) on CreditWatch with negative implications, threatening a one-notch downgrade to the company’s current ‘junk’ rating ...
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Fitch Ups Ford to Investment Grade (F, GM)

Posted: April 24, 2012 at 11:19 am

Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) is getting its reward for dodging bankruptcy during the financial crisis, something that its US rivals General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) and Chrysler were not ...
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Moody’s Lifts Andarko Debt to Investment Grade (APC)

Posted: March 23, 2012 at 12:59 pm

Ratings agency Moody’s has raised its senior unsecured ratings for Anadarko Petroleum Corp. (NYSE: APC) from ‘Ba1’ to ‘Baa3’ with a stable outlook. The move puts Anadarko’s debt back at ...
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