{"id":467856,"date":"2020-03-28T20:31:24","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T19:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kapitalafrik.com\/?p=467856"},"modified":"2020-03-28T20:31:24","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T19:31:24","slug":"moodys-downgrades-south-africas-ratings-to-ba1-maintains-negative-outlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.financialafrik.com\/en\/2020\/03\/28\/moodys-downgrades-south-africas-ratings-to-ba1-maintains-negative-outlook\/","title":{"rendered":"Moody&#8217;s downgrades South Africa&#8217;s ratings to Ba1, maintains negative outlook"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-bottom-left\"><\/div><p>Moody&#8217;s Investors Service, (&#8220;Moody&#8217;s&#8221;) has today downgraded the Government of South Africa&#8217;s long-term foreign-currencyand local-currency issuer ratings to Ba1 from Baa3. The outlook remains negative.<\/p>\n<p>The key driver behind the rating downgrade to Ba1 is the continuing deterioration in fiscal strength and structurally very weak growth, which Moody&#8217;s does not expect current policy settings to address effectively.<\/p>\n<p>Both outcomes speak to weaker economic and fiscal policy effectiveness than Moody&#8217;s previously assumed.<\/p>\n<p>The negative outlook reflects the risk that economic growth will prove even weaker and the debt burden will rise even faster and further than currently expected, weakening debt affordability and potentially, access\u00a0 to funding.<\/p>\n<p>Moody&#8217;s also downgraded South Africa&#8217;s long-term foreign-currency and local-currency senior unsecured debt ratings to Ba1 from Baa3, its\u00a0 foreign-currency senior unsecured MTN and senior unsecured Shelf ratings to (P)Ba1 from (P)Baa3, as well as its foreign-currency other short-term\u00a0 rating to (P)NP from (P)P-3.<\/p>\n<p>In a related action, Moody&#8217;s downgraded ZAR Sovereign Capital Fund\u00a0 Propriety Limited&#8217;s foreign currency, backed senior unsecured debt rating to Ba1 from Baa3 and maintained its negative outlook. ZAR Sovereign Capital Fund Propriety Limited is a special purpose vehicle whose debt issuance is ultimately the obligation of the South African government.<\/p>\n<p>All South Africa&#8217;s long-term country risk ceilings were revised down by one notch. Its long-term local-currency bond and bank deposits ceilings were revised down to A3 from A2, and the long-term foreign-currency bond ceilings to Baa1 from A3. The short-term bond foreign-currency ceilingremained unchanged at Prime-2. Moody&#8217;s also lowered the long-term foreign-currency bank deposits ceilings to Ba1 from Baa3 and the short-term foreign-currency bank deposits ceiling to Not Prime(NP) from Prime-3.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-bottom-left\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moody&#8217;s Investors Service, (&#8220;Moody&#8217;s&#8221;) has today downgraded the Government of South Africa&#8217;s long-term foreign-currencyand local-currency issuer ratings to Ba1 from Baa3. The outlook remains negative. 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