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Sears Holdings Corporation has closed underperforming stores and cut costs, yet a hedge fund controlled by company CEO Eddie Lampert is now pushing for even more forceful financial restructuring to stave off bankruptcy.

CreditRiskMonitor’s integration of subscriber crowdsourcing into the FRISK® score continues to prove itself as a unique enhancement, unavailable in any other bankruptcy prediction model. Recently, the "Virtual Credit Group" highlighted the elevated risk of coal miners Peabody Energy Corporation and Alpha Metallurgical Resources Inc.

In the steel industry, major players AK Steel Holding Corporation and Steel Dynamics, Inc. are two examples of public companies with markedly different financial situations in 2018.

From the start of the coronavirus pandemic, CreditRiskMonitor subscribers have experienced an increase in public company FRISK® scored corporate failures* throughout North America.

CreditRiskMonitor offers up five quick and important facts that you needed to know about now-bankrupt Yellow Corporation to have made a more solid business evaluation – or, more advisable, an alteration of credit extension or a pivot to a peer.

Chinese property developer defaults have become the norm, with formal bankruptcies now beginning to take shape. Industry giant China Evergrande Group may be among the next to file.

In the restaurant industry during COVID-19, the ability to pay your bill today doesn't mean that you can just as easily pay the bill tomorrow. We see the danger in many high-profile eateries across the U.S.

In 2019, nearly half of the 230 publicly traded Chinese construction companies we cover are financially distressed. If you have exposure to China’s real estate market, we urge you to monitor closely the financial risk potential of your commercial counterparties.

The FRISK® score cuts through the “Cloaking Effect” by identifying financially stressed companies with a differentiated and proprietary method that doesn't rely on payment history.