{"id":44591,"date":"2019-10-02T08:54:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T00:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=44591"},"modified":"2019-10-02T08:56:46","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T00:56:46","slug":"moodys-maintains-lebanons-rating-at-caa1-but-warns-of-further-downgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=44591","title":{"rendered":"Moody&#8217;s Maintains Lebanon&#8217;s Rating At Caa1, But Warns Of Further Downgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BEIRUT, Oct 2 (NNN-NNA) &#8211; Lebanon&#8217;s Finance Ministry, announced that, credit rating agency Moody&#8217;s, has maintained Lebanon&#8217;s credit rating at Caa1, but warned of further downgrade in three months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moody&#8217;s said, Lebanon&#8217;s credit rating will be under supervision and it will be further downgraded within three months, if the country does not witness any improvement economically and financially, according to the ministry&#8217;s statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Meanwhile, Moody&#8217;s will evaluate the government&#8217;s performance and its ability to approve the 2020 budget,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lebanese government, currently discussing the 2020 state budget, has vowed to take additional measures, to those adopted in the 2019 budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, economists expressed their doubt about the government&#8217;s seriousness in adopting real measures to curb the budget deficit, in the 2020 budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fitch, another major international credit rating agency, downgraded Lebanon&#8217;s credit rating from B- to CCC last month, while Standard &amp; Poor&#8217;s maintained the country&#8217;s rating at B-.&#8211; NNN-NNA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT, Oct 2 (NNN-NNA) &#8211; Lebanon&#8217;s Finance Ministry, announced that, credit rating agency Moody&#8217;s, has maintained Lebanon&#8217;s credit rating at Caa1, but warned of further downgrade in three months. Moody&#8217;s said, Lebanon&#8217;s credit rating will be under supervision and it will be further downgraded within three months, if the country does not witness any improvement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":44593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[300,286,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44591"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}