Irony? “Credit Crash Warning” Icahn May Be Cut To Junk By S&P
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
02/19/2016
Having warned – correctly – of the impending collapse of the US credit markets last year, it just seems ironic that Carl Icahn’s firm has been downgraded to “watch negative” from stable by S&P, implying a cut to junk may be imminent. Just as we detailed earlier, activist investors have suffered greatly in the oil rout, and S&P cites declining investment values in the firm’s portfolio, which have smashed the loan-to-value ratio up to 45% (a crucial threshold for the ratings agency).
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