When espousing the many capabilities and applications we see for the WAIN Street Business Credit Health Index there is always a concern about coming off as too ambitious or “pie in the sky” which can hurt credibility, especially in an industry that is practical and risk conscious. However, we keep finding hints, nearly every day, …
When you claim something has “game changing potential” as WAIN Street does in reference to the Business Credit Health Index (BCH Index), there’s always going to be skeptics that have trouble seeing a bold vision. One thing that can really help ease that skepticism is outside validation of the general concept on which your claims …
At WAIN Street, our passion is “Bridging Wall Street and Main Street” – channeling the capabilities of Wall Street to solve the most pressing problems of Main Street businesses. Over the past few months, this passion has spilled over to our blog in the form of some pointed opinions about Occupy Wall Street, financial innovation, and the …
Bloomberg ran a story last week about the price of credit default swaps for Bank of America recently soaring. Referenced in the article was the Markit CDX North America Investment Grade Index “which investors use to hedge against the losses on company debt or to speculate on creditworthiness.” Trying to get a good handle on overall credit …
From DealBook: McGraw-Hill in Talks to Lead Stock Indexes Joint Venture S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average are two of the most popular measures of the US economy. Those two indices, along with thousands of others created by the two companies have come to be accepted standards and benchmarks. Because they are accepted there’s …
