Moody's credit rating for South Africa was last set at Baa3 with stable outlook. Fitch's credit rating for South Africa was last reported at BB+ with negative outlook. In general, a credit rating is used by sovereign wealth funds, pension funds and other investors to gauge the credit worthiness S&P Global has downgraded SA’s credit rating to full junk status, while its counterpart Moody’s has placed the country on review for downgrade. South Africa’s overseas and regional credit ratings by S&P continue to be below investment quality. According to S&P, the outlook revision suggests that South Africa’s debt metrics are quickly worsening as a consequence of the country’s very very low GDP expansion and superior fiscal deficits. South African Reserve Bank: credit rating is near junk Ratings agency Moody’s followed S&P Global and Fitch in spelling bad news for Africa’s second biggest economy, South Africa, now facing a slowdown in economic growth and rising debt burden. The hint of the downgrade began when Fitch, one of the “big three” credit rating agencies, kept SA’s long-term foreign and local currency debt on BB+, the first notch of sub-investment grade Moody's credit rating for South Africa was last set at Baa3 with negative outlook. Fitch's credit rating for South Africa was last reported at BB+ with negative outlook. In general, a credit rating is used by sovereign wealth funds, pension funds and other investors to gauge the credit worthiness of South Africa thus having a big impact on the country's borrowing costs. The credit-rating downgrades of Macy’s Inc. and Renault SA to junk status are rekindling fears among investors of a potential uptick in so-called fallen angels after a run of relative
The credit-rating downgrades of Macy’s Inc. and Renault SA to junk status are rekindling fears among investors of a potential uptick in so-called fallen angels after a run of relative SA's best credit rating comes from Moody's. But when the agency say there's been "an erosion of fiscal strength", talk of junk status soon follows. The Land Bank has become the first big state-owned company in SA to be relegated to junk status by Moody’s rating agency. The New York-based agency, which is the last remaining among the big three to rate SA as investment grade economy, said given government’s fiscal challenges, it expected less financial support for the Land Bank from the state.
Nov 1, 2019 Moody's left South Africa on the brink of "junk" status on Friday after it revised the outlook on the country's last investment-grade credit rating to Nov 22, 2019 The negative outlook indicates that South Africa's debt metrics are rapidly worsening as a result of the country's low GDP growth and high fiscal Feb 26, 2020 A cut to junk by Moody's - following downgrades by S&P and Fitch in on their junk-grade BB+ local currency ratings, important in South Africa This is what awaits South Africa if Moody's cuts credit rating to junk. 2019-11-07 12:24 - Paul Wallace. share: Nelson Mandela Bridge in Johannesburg. (Photo Nov 4, 2019 Credit rating agency has opted against downgrading country's debt to junk — for now.
South Africa currently has a Baa3 rating, the last step before “junk”, with a stable outlook. Polls among economists showed they were split on whether Moody’s would change South Africa’s outlook to “negative” (from stable) – and some predicted it would go all the way to “junk”. Both SA’s rand denominated debt and foreign currency debt are rated as sub-investment grade or junk status, by S&P. Contingent liabilities S&P views Treasury’s guarantees to SOEs and its contingent liabilities as “sizable”. The credit-rating downgrades of Macy’s Inc. and Renault SA to junk status are rekindling fears among investors of a potential uptick in so-called fallen angels after a run of relative SA's best credit rating comes from Moody's. But when the agency say there's been "an erosion of fiscal strength", talk of junk status soon follows. The Land Bank has become the first big state-owned company in SA to be relegated to junk status by Moody’s rating agency. The New York-based agency, which is the last remaining among the big three to rate SA as investment grade economy, said given government’s fiscal challenges, it expected less financial support for the Land Bank from the state.
The Land Bank has become the first big state-owned company in SA to be relegated to junk status by Moody’s rating agency. The New York-based agency, which is the last remaining among the big three to rate SA as investment grade economy, said given government’s fiscal challenges, it expected less financial support for the Land Bank from the state.