# Professor Stephen Ryan is quoted in a story examining how the coronavirus could affect how companies forecast credit losses

1 Faculty News March 3, 2020 ![Wall Street Journal logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/wsjlogo.jpg?itok=5Qt0z3WX)>

Excerpt from [The Wall Street Journal](https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-could-affect-how-companies-forecast-credit-losses-11583345972) -- “'I don’t think the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or anyone else has the ability yet to forecast the future evolution of the virus with much confidence,' said [Stephen Ryan](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/stephen-ryan), an accounting professor at New York University."

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