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The harsh downturn in several end markets has resulted in overcapacity in key industrial commodity markets, causing base metal prices to break materially lower. We note where bankruptcy is most probable.

It’s just not working out: the coronavirus pandemic is forcing the hand of financially weak American fitness operations to pursue bankruptcy, with many involving permanent location closures.

Thomas Cook and Virgin Australia, two massive airliners, have filed bankruptcy. Could American Airlines be next?

With economies around the world on the brink of recession, or already in one, any professional monitoring financial risk needs to establish proper oversight now before commercial bankruptcies wreak greater havoc upon their portfolio.

Even with government intervention, trade credit insurance is waning at the exact time when it is needed most. The longer the coronavirus persists, the more bankruptcies will ensue and the harder it will likely become to acquire trade insurance.

Heavily indebted public companies - including perhaps theaters near you - are reeling as countries around the world shut their economies to slow the progress of COVID-19.

The coronavirus has unleashed the global debt crisis that CreditRiskMonitor has been predicting. Credit professionals need to take action to ensure that they aren’t unduly impacted by delayed payments and bad debt write-offs.

The longer the coronavirus persists, the harder it will be for health services operators to avoid bankruptcy, quite similar to what recently transpired with Quorum Health Corporation.

In a recent webinar with leading credit experts, CreditRiskMonitor CEO Jerry Flum noted that a world built on nonfinancial corporate debt is susceptible to mass bankruptcy in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sentiment data, farmed from leading credit managers who subscribe to our service, is pointing to extreme bankruptcy risk in a growing list of leading oil and gas giants.

Today, bond rating agencies are downgrading corporate credit at a faster pace than any point in the last decade. The coronavirus has sapped product and services demand and disrupted global supply chains.

CreditRiskMonitor warned of the increased bankruptcy risk at newspaper owner McClatchy Company for more than a year before their Chapter 11 filing in February 2020. Yet McClatchy Company is not an isolated case and risk professionals should be monitoring other news provider outlets closely.