# Professor Edward Altman's new index with Golub Capital is featured

1 Faculty News July 7, 2015 ![Wall Street Journal logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/wsjlogo.jpg?itok=5Qt0z3WX)>

Excerpt from [The Wall Street Journal](http://blogs.wsj.com/cfo/2015/07/07/private-mid-market-company-earnings-rose-in-q2/) -- "Middle-market companies rebounded from a lackluster first quarter and grew revenues and earnings between April and June this year, according to a new report from middle-market lender Golub Capital. ... Golub helped compile the results with [Edward Altman](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/edward-altman), a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, who noted that the results for the smaller companies portend continuing slow growth for larger public companies in the S&P 500 when they report second-quarter earnings."

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