Corporate credit rating changes. A downgrade below investment grade forces index-driven bond selling and raises funding costs for the stock.
What to watch: Downgrades to junk (fallen angels). It arrives event, and the effect typically lasts weeks.
It sits in tier 4 — Stock and sector specific: Moves one company or one group, not the market. Any factor here becomes tier one if it gets large enough — a bank failure and a pandemic both started as somebody's sector news.
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Also in Corporate actions and stock-specific events
- Individual earnings reports and guidance
- Pre-announcements and profit warnings
- Mergers and acquisitions
- IPOs, lockup expirations, and secondaries
- Share issuance and dilution
- Insider buying and selling
- Activist investors and 13D filings
- 13F holdings disclosures
- Analyst upgrades, downgrades, and price targets
- Short-seller reports and accounting questions
- Management and board changes
- Product launches, trial results, and approvals
- Litigation, settlements, and product liability
- Dividend cuts, initiations, and special dividends
- Stock splits
- Index inclusion and deletion
- IPO window and public-market shrinkage
- FDA approvals and PDUFA dates
- Private equity exit backlog and marks