{"id":44607,"date":"2022-08-13T14:49:20","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T11:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=44607"},"modified":"2022-08-13T14:49:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T11:49:24","slug":"sp-and-fitch-downgraded-ukraines-foreign-currency-rating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=44607","title":{"rendered":"S&#038;P and Fitch downgraded Ukraine&#8217;s foreign currency rating"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">S&amp;P and Fitch downgraded Ukraine&#8217;s foreign currency rating ,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fitch Ratings logo .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>KYIV. UkraineGate .13. \u00a0August . 2022 | Economy.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">International rating agencies S&amp;P and Fitch on Friday downgraded Ukraine&#8217;s foreign currency ratings to selective default and limited default as they consider the country&#8217;s debt restructuring problematic.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Details<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this week, Ukraine&#8217;s foreign creditors supported the country&#8217;s request for a two-year freeze on payments for nearly $20 billion in international bonds.&nbsp;Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said that this step will save Ukraine about 6 billion dollars in payments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Quote<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Given the announced terms of the restructuring and consistent with our criteria, we view this transaction as problematic and tantamount to default,&#8221; S&amp;P said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">S&amp;P added that macroeconomic and fiscal stress caused by Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine could weaken the Ukrainian government&#8217;s ability to keep up with domestic currency debt and downgraded the Eastern European country&#8217;s domestic currency rating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As noted in the publication, due to the war, Ukraine is threatened with an economic decline of 35-45% in 2022 and a monthly budget deficit of 5 billion dollars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<strong>Ukrgate<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S&amp;P and Fitch downgraded Ukraine&#8217;s foreign currency rating , Fitch Ratings logo . KYIV. UkraineGate .13. \u00a0August . 2022 | Economy.\u00a0 International rating agencies S&amp;P and Fitch on Friday downgraded Ukraine&#8217;s foreign currency ratings to selective default and limited default as they consider the country&#8217;s debt restructuring problematic.\u00a0 Details Earlier this week, Ukraine&#8217;s foreign creditors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":44613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[349,1671,813,857,996,2399,1000,1854],"class_list":["post-44607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-economy","tag-politics","tag-russia","tag-society","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-gate","tag-ukraine-news","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44616,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44607\/revisions\/44616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}