Spain’s Credit Rating Lowered By Fitch
More developments on the Eurozone sovereign debt credit ratings front. Fitch, one of the big three credit ratings agencies, lowered its rating on Spanish government debt by two notches, from AA plus to AA minus. As recently as 2010, Fitch rating Madrid’s debt at AAA. This credit rating cut follows on the heels of the decision by Moody’s to drop Italy’s credit rating two levels.
With the sovereign debt crisis in Europe cascading out of control, and a severe Eurozone banking crisis now developing, one has to be obtuse to believe that the global financial and economic crisis that began in 2008 has been “resolved.” Sovereign credit ratings are dropping with monotonous regularity, and a growing cadre of economists are suggesting that the Eurozone, U.K. and U.S. are already in the midst of a double-dip recession.
With negative economic growth and growing public debt to GDP ratios, how are these nations going to resolve their sovereign debt crisis?
