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Title: Moody’s Reiterates U.S. Spending Risks Credit Rating
Source: Bloomberg News
URL Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=az1YD_O3PXz4
Published: May 26, 2010
Author: Bloomberg News
Post Date: 2010-05-26 14:00:03 by Badeye
Keywords: None
Views: 195
Comments: 2

Moody’s Reiterates U.S. Spending Risks Credit Rating (Update1) Share Business ExchangeTwitterFacebook| Email | Print | A A A By Mary Childs

May 25 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. government’s Aaa bond rating will come under pressure in the future unless additional measures are taken to reduce projected record budget deficits, according to Moody’s Investors Service Inc.

The U.S. retains its top rating for now because of a “high degree of economic and institutional strength,” the New York- based ratings company said in a statement today that was little changed from a credit opinion released in February. The outlook is stable, the statement said.

The government’s finances have been “substantially worsened by the credit crisis, recession, and government spending to address these shocks,” Moody’s analysts lead by Steven A. Hess wrote. “The ratios of general government debt to GDP and to revenue are deteriorating sharply, and after the crisis they are likely to be higher than the ratios of other Aaa-rated countries.”

Debt to revenue has more than doubled over the past three years and is now over 400 percent, which could lead to “potential stress” on finances, the report said.

“This whole financial crisis in Europe has actually benefitted the U.S. government in its access to finance,” Hess said in a telephone interview. “The U.S. Treasury market has become once again, as it was during the recent financial crisis globally, the safe haven, and therefore lots of money flows into the U.S. Treasury market and that is a very positive.”

Treasury Market

The euro has lost 7.1 percent against the dollar this month on speculation Greece’s fiscal crisis will spread to other nations and hamper the region’s economic growth. More than $340 billion of Treasuries changed hands today, 40 percent more than the average daily volume of $241 billion over the past three months, according to ICAP PLC, the world’s largest inter-dealer broker.

The U.S.’s stable politics, fundamentals and economic prospects support a stable outlook, and risks include waning investor confidence on the government’s future access to liquidity and flexibility, as well as costly federal programs like Social Security and Medicare, the report said.

Moody’s analysts, in a Dec. 8 report, said public finances in the U.S. and the U.K. are worsening in the wake of the global financial crisis and the sovereigns may “test the Aaa boundaries.” It said the U.S. and U.K. have “resilient” Aaa ratings, as opposed to the “resistant” top ratings of Canada, Germany and France. The agency said later that week that it has no current plans to lower the U.S. and U.K.’s debt ratings.

To contact the reporter on this story: Mary Childs in New York at mchilds5@bloomberg.net

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#1. To: Badeye (#0) (Edited)

Bear Stearns ALT-A Mortgage Fund...

AAA rating by Moodys.

The day it went tits up.

YOU could learn from that. Borrow as much as you can in the time you have, Boo.

#67. To: war (#48) Keep hiding behind the bozo, bozo. (laughing) You've always been a world class pussy. Badeye posted on 2010-01-14 16:12:48 ET Reply Trace

war  posted on  2010-05-26   14:05:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: war (#1)

Borrow as much as you can in the time you have, Boo.

Who would loan him money? Big Vinny at 20% a week?

Skip Intro  posted on  2010-05-26   14:10:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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