{"id":4206,"date":"2009-01-16T13:46:15","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T21:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=4206"},"modified":"2009-01-17T13:52:39","modified_gmt":"2009-01-17T21:52:39","slug":"quiksilver-down-in-the-junk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=4206","title":{"rendered":"Quiksilver Down In The Junk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/quik-logo.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/quik-logo.jpg','popup','width=180,height=53,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/quik-logo-tm2.jpg\" height=\"58\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Quik-Logo\" \/><\/a>We don&#8217;t know exactly what &#8220;junk territory&#8221; means out on &#8220;the street&#8221; but we&#8217;re guessing this probably isn&#8217;t good news. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/v2.moodys.com\/cust\/default.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Moody&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> downgraded retailer <strong>Quiksilver Inc<\/strong>. deeper into junk territory Thursday, saying the chain&#8217;s weak fourth-quarter performance and reliance on short-term debt makes it especially vulnerable as consumers cut spending.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then again we always remember what <strong>Bob McKnight&#8217;s<\/strong> once said: &#8220;Analysts: there&#8217;s only one letter separating them from what they really are.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/28678970\/\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We don&#8217;t know exactly what &#8220;junk territory&#8221; means out on &#8220;the street&#8221; but we&#8217;re guessing this probably isn&#8217;t good news. Moody&#8217;s downgraded retailer Quiksilver Inc. deeper into junk territory Thursday, saying the chain&#8217;s weak fourth-quarter performance and reliance on short-term debt makes it especially vulnerable as consumers cut spending. Then again we always remember what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4207,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206\/revisions\/4207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}