On Sept. 18, 2009, Standard&Poor's Ratings Services revised its recovery rating on Eastman Kodak Co.'s senior unsecured debt to '6', indicating our expectation of negligible (0% to 10%) recovery in the event of a payment default, from '5'. We lowered the issue-level rating to 'CCC' (two notches lower than the 'B-' corporate credit rating on the company) from 'CCC+', in accordance with our notching criteria for a '6' recovery rating. (For the complete recovery analysis, please see Standard&Poor's recovery report on Eastman Kodak, to be published on RatingsDirect following this report.) On Sept. 16, Eastman Kodak announced that it expects to raise up to $700 million of debt through a series of financing transactions. The proposed