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Eastman Chemical Company: Tough start to the year but leverage should decline

CORPORATES ISSUER COMMENT 28 April 2017 Contacts John Rogers 212-553-4481 Senior Vice President [email protected] Eastman Chemical Company Tough start to the year but leverage should decline No change to rating or outlook Eastman’s first quarter 2017 EBITDA was roughly flat with 2016 despite good growth in a number of its specialty businesses. The combination of some raw material headwinds an
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