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Rank Company Industry Revenue* Bad Debt Allow DSO Ops Cash as % of Rev Current Ratio Debts/ Assets CSI Score
1 Arena Resources Inc
Tulsa, OK
 Oil/Gas-Independent 208,859 0.0% 20.05 84.9% 4.52 0.18 1.00
2 Monolithic Power Systems Inc
Los Gatos, CA
 Semiconductor 160,511 0.0% 20.73 24.7% 5.53 0.16 1.00
3 Tessera Technologies Inc
San Jose, CA
 Semiconductor Equip 248,291 0.4% 21.65 27.6% 7.21 0.11 1.00
4 Gen-Probe Inc
San Diego, CA
 Medical Equip/Supplies 472,695 2.1% 25.79 37.7% 13.49 0.06 1.00
5 United Microelectronics
Hsinchu City, Taiwan
 Semiconductor 3,071,496 0.1% 31.62 46.7% 5.37 0.15 1.10
* in thousands
Rank Industry No. of Comp Write- Offs Int'l Sales Bad Debt Allow DSO Ops Cash as % of Rev Current Ratio Debts/ Assets CSI Score
1 Semiconductor 89 51% 70.00% 3.2% 41.56 15.0% 4.69 0.33 2.18
2 Diagnostic Substances 10 83% 15.80% 3.1% 58.23 18.0% 4.96 0.22 2.29
3 Biotechnology 17 147% 25.60% 2.4% 58.09 23.0% 4.77 0.37 2.32
4 Mining/Quarrying 28 14% 27.80% 1.4% 35.44 21.0% 1.77 0.54 2.45
5 Oil/Gas-Independent 63 27% 3.60% 2.3% 37.09 57.0% 1.20 0.56 2.46

Recent Articles

U.S. Crude Rises Above $60 per Barrel

March 1, 2021

U.S. crude oil broke the symbolic $60 per barrel threshold on Friday continuing the post-pandemic recovery of the world's most important commodity.

U.S. crude prices surged to $61.50 per barrel on Friday, its highest level since before the pandemic, as a combination of cold weather and expectations for a strong economic recovery have investors bidding up the price of oil.

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Zambia's Currency Hit by Inflation, Default

February 17, 2021

Inflation is hurting Zambia's currency at a time when a rise in the commodities market should be boosting the value.  "There's no easy way out here really."

A rise in commodity prices would normally be a boon for Africa's second largest copper producer, but that is not the case in Zambia these days where the country's currency, the kwacha, has fallen dramatically against the dollar as the result of rising inflation, high debt and a recent default.

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Currency Spotlight: Tunisia

February 9, 2021

Tunisia's currency gained on the dollar for the second consecutive year even as the nation's developing economy continues to struggle. 

The year 2020 saw many emerging and frontier market currencies get pummelled by the coronavirus pandemic, yet that wasn't the case for the tiny north African nation of Tunisia, which saw its currency, the dinar, rise 3.47% against the dollar.

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Currency Volatility Surges in 2020

January 15, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic sent global currencies on a downward spiral not seen since the 2015 commodities crash.  "Just about every market went on a wild ride."

A year after currency markets were the calmest in a decade, currency volatility surged in 2020 to an average of 3.53 percent, an 80 percent increase from the 2019 mark of just 1.96 percent, as the result of a virus pandemic that sent many currencies to record lows against the dollar.

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Q4-2020 Currency Volatility Report

January 10, 2021

Emerging market currencies rebounded strongly against a weak dollar in the fourth quarter of 2020 with the Colombian peso leading the way.

Currency volatility rose to a rate of 1.67%, the highest quarterly rise since the opening quarter of the year, as a weakened U.S. dollar helped boost the values of a broad mixture of currencies across the globe, according to data from the Currency Volatility Index (CVI).

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Noteworthy 2020

January 8, 2021

CreditPulse recaps the extraordinary year of 2020 with our year-end montage of insightful comments from noteworthy people around the world. "There are no ethical boundaries to Beijing's pursuit of power."

"I'm hear to clear my name and to pronounce clearly and emphatically something that was interpreted as heresy in the Japanese judicial system: These allegations are untrue and I should have never been arrested," proclaimed auto executive Carlos Ghosn (pictured second from the left, middle row).

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Perspective

CSI Rankings

Oil & Gas Refining

33 Companies in the CSI

  1. Hess Corp 

    New York, NY

    CSI Score: 2.10

  2. HollyFrontier Corp

    Dallas, TX

    CSI Score: 2.20

  3. ConocoPhillips

    Houston, TX

    CSI Score: 2.20

  4. Suncor Energy Inc

    Calgary (AB), Canada

    CSI Score: 2.30

  5. Equinor ASA

    Stavenger, Norway

    CSI Score: 2.40

  6. Tatneft PJSC

    Almetyevsk, Russia

    CSI Score: 2.40

  7. Imperial Oil Ltd

    Calgary (AB), Canada

    CSI Score: 2.50

  8. Murphy Oil Company

    El Dorado, AR

    CSI Score: 2.50

  9. Marathon Oil Company

    Houston, TX

    CSI Score: 2.60

  10. Ecopetrol SA

    Bogota, Colombia

    CSI Score: 2.60

Based on 2018 figures

Noteworthy