S&P may downgrade Ford, GM, Chrysler on worsening market
By Wallace Witkowski
Last update: 1:39 p.m. EDT June 20, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Standard & Poor's said Friday it may downgrade the ratings of the Big Three automakers following a review of deteriorating U.S. industry conditions. S&P placed its corporate credit ratings of General Motors Corp. and Chrysler on CreditWatch with negative implications.
"We have renewed concerns about all three automakers' future cash outflows in light of the prospects for U.S. sales for the rest of 2008 and into 2009," said Robert Schulz, an S&P credit analyst, in a statement.
“Thus, it should be understood that when pro-US figures use the term, 'rules-based international order,' they are not referring to anything analogous to the rule of law. Quite the opposite, they are using Orwellian language to describe a system in which essentially no rules can be established and/or observed, given that the dominant state has the prerogative to violate and/or rewrite “rules” at its whim.” Aaron Good, American Exception