Quote of the Day: S&P on Lehman

By Paul Kedrosky · March 21, 2008 · ·

Quote of the day (so far) goes to S&P in its new report downgrading Lehman’s (and Goldman’s) credit rating.

S&P said Lehman has a stable base of funding and strong fundamentals, but "could suffer severely if there was an adverse change in market perceptions, however ill-founded."

Right. Like, for example, if there was a new S&P credit downgrade report warning investors that things at Lehman could get bad if there was a change in market perceptions? I get it.

[S&P via Reuters]

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Comments

  1. Berry Zito says:
    March 21, 2008 at 3:23 pm

    I like the new, “snarky” Paul…

  2. Tarun says:
    March 21, 2008 at 9:43 pm

    Me too !!

  3. Bruce Lawrence says:
    March 22, 2008 at 12:49 pm

    I figure S&P would just like to be able to say they issued a warning about something before it fell apart even if they don’t think it is going to happen. I find it hard to believe the rating agencies are even still in business. They have zero credibility now.