{"id":386676,"date":"2010-03-03T19:16:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T00:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"14848 at http:\/\/www.precentral.net"},"modified":"2010-03-03T19:16:34","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T00:16:34","slug":"sp-outlook-on-palm-turns-sour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/386676","title":{"rendered":"S&amp;P outlook on Palm turns sour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rtecenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"115\" alt=\"Standard &amp; Poor's\" class=\"lightbox2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.precentral.net\/sites\/precentral.net\/files\/articleimages\/Derek%20Kessler\/2010\/03\/sp-thumbs-down.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The bad news for Palm keeps piling up, especially if you&rsquo;re concerned about the whole financials thing. As noted by the Wall Street Journal, <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/BT-CO-20100303-712468.html?mod=WSJ_latestheadlines\">Standard &amp; Poor&rsquo;s Ratings Services has reversed their outlook on Palm<\/a>, flipping from cautiously optimistic to downright negative. S&amp;P&rsquo;s ratings are a judgment on a corporation&rsquo;s credit potential, and the occasionally issue outlooks statements on how they think that company may fair in coming months and years.<\/p>\n<p>S&amp;P&rsquo;s current judgment of Palm is a CCC+ rating, the top tier of the low highly speculative territory. It was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.precentral.net\/sp-upgrades-palm-credit-rating\">back in October that S&amp;P upgraded Palm to a CCC+ rating<\/a> and issued their positive outlook. But given recent revelations about Palm&rsquo;s lower than expected sales figures, S&amp;P&rsquo;s analysts saw fit to retract their positive outlook. The outlook reversal had little effect on Palm&rsquo;s stock performance for the day &#8211; all the damage was dealt earlier in the week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rteright\"><em>Thanks to amateurhack for the tip!<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?a=TbwU-Lm-t1w:y9se1T7GVpI:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?a=TbwU-Lm-t1w:y9se1T7GVpI:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?a=TbwU-Lm-t1w:y9se1T7GVpI:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?i=TbwU-Lm-t1w:y9se1T7GVpI:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?a=TbwU-Lm-t1w:y9se1T7GVpI:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Precentralnet?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Precentralnet\/~4\/TbwU-Lm-t1w\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bad news for Palm keeps piling up, especially if you&rsquo;re concerned about the whole financials thing. As noted by the Wall Street Journal, Standard &amp; Poor&rsquo;s Ratings Services has reversed their outlook on Palm, flipping from cautiously optimistic to downright negative. S&amp;P&rsquo;s ratings are a judgment on a corporation&rsquo;s credit potential, and the occasionally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":666,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/666"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}