Market slide puts focus on companies’ balance sheets
Stocks of companies with a lot of leverage could be hit hard if a credit crunch develops, analysts say
The market meltdown is forcing equity investors to confront worst-case scenarios they normally delegate to colleagues in credit: Which companies can survive a slowdown, and which are teetering toward extinction?
The urgency of the assessment is a sign that stock managers have entered survival mod
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