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Credit Risk

A credit downgrade from a rating agency can spell trouble for an energy firm by curtailing its ability to trade and forcing it to tie up liquidity to back its trading operations (see table). Credit rating agencies take into account a wide range of factors when assigning a rating, and are increasingly stressing the importance of solid, asset-backed trading strategies to a company’s credit quality (see box).

For New York-based rating agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P), the process for assigning a

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