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Moody's downgrades Brazil's sovereign debt to 'junk territory'

Thursday, February 25th 2016 - 06:50 UTC
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Moody's Investors Service on Wednesday joined the two other major credit rating agencies in downgrading Brazil's sovereign debt to junk territory. Moody's lowered Brazil's credit rating by two notches from Baa3 (its lowest investment-grade rating) to Ba2 and changed the country's outlook to “negative,” a move that follows similar actions by Fitch Ratings and Standard & Poor's. Read full article

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  • Skip

    Rousseff says nothing will change..... which is the problem!

    And this is the result.

    Feb 25th, 2016 - 09:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    Oh bless! DumbAss Dilma has worked for this TGW The Liar Mantega when he was the laughingly called 'Finance Minister'.

    What is the next level? 'Bat-shit mad Brazil Nuts grade' especially coined for the problem.

    Feb 25th, 2016 - 10:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • T_Paine

    You might remember last year at this time they were predicting a recovery in Brazil.
    They'll be lucky to keep the depression under a 5% decrease

    Feb 25th, 2016 - 12:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Tik Tok

    It's really scary stuff in store for Brazil, with such high public debt and a huge interest rate then to meet the interest payments this takes up a huge and growing portion of any revenues they get in, hence they are staring down the barrel at default or printing money.

    And what does the useless cow Dilma and the PT do about this wrecking ball that will destroy Brazil............absolutely nothing, because their balls are in a sling from their base i.e. the workers unions. We'll see how they fare in a few years when Brazil is back to a subsistence economy.

    Take the hit and right the ship, too hard for populists to do because they will lose their cushy jobs, never think about what's good for Brazil just for their own arse.

    Brazil is a right f**k up presently.

    Feb 25th, 2016 - 01:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Marti Llazo

    So Brazil's sovereign debt joins Argentina's sovereign debt in the Junk Pile.

    Feb 25th, 2016 - 02:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • SebaSvtz

    Time for Brazilians to choose better.

    I sorry to see how Brazil moved from coming-soon world power to this.

    Lula-dude, Petrobras scandal, Inept Dilma... What´s next? I do hope for a strong, well balanced Brazil, because that will be good for the entire region.

    Feb 25th, 2016 - 02:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Brasileiro

    The public debt of Brazil in US dollars was 72 billion. IT WAS! January/2016 we repurchased $ 10 billion for 30% of what we had sold in 2007. And now, in February/2016, we repurchased 12 billion more by 25% than we had sold in 2011.

    Excellent business.

    I returned from Iran yesterday. We opened another market in Yuan. We will have to produce 8% more soybeans and corn to meet the demand of the sales contracts that were signed.

    Crisis? What crisis?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jvvEKCq3IU

    Feb 25th, 2016 - 03:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Englander

    Hope the Olympics will be OK.
    Brazil looks to be in real trouble.

    Feb 25th, 2016 - 04:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Brasileiro

    Do not come to Brazil. This is the country from Zumbies!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2P6gV-TDCg&list=FLmXPTu1f8AdGlizWNiASx2A&index=34

    Feb 25th, 2016 - 05:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    They will feed the tourist and anybody else with NUTS,

    its all abt Nuts,
    fried , roasted , boiled , scrambled ,
    its all abt nuts...

    Feb 25th, 2016 - 07:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Tik Tok

    Brasshole is nuts......

    Feb 25th, 2016 - 09:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • T_Paine

    Hahahaha
    Brazilians are buying their own bad debt

    How does one tell when a Brazilain is retarded?

    Feb 26th, 2016 - 01:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • darragh

    @7 Bras

    “Crisis? What crisis”.

    “Now is the winter of our discontent / Made glorious summer by this son of York…”,

    Don't understand Bras? - ask any Brit over the age of forty.

    Feb 26th, 2016 - 12:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Briton

    .How does one tell when a Brazilian is retarded?

    Nuts whole hazel nuts,
    You cover them in chocolate and call them Brazil nuts ….lol

    Feb 26th, 2016 - 07:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • 313toBioBio

    Argentina's in just as scary situation but msm has a man crush on macri

    Feb 27th, 2016 - 12:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Jack Bauer

    @7 BRasshole
    “The public debt of Brazil in US dollars was 72 billion. ” Was ? When ?

    Where d'you get these lovely figures ?? But I presume you are refering to Brazil's foreign debt...which, just fyg, is over 500 billion dollars.....larger than Brazil's international reserves...about 370 billion dollars. Maybe you were referring to the “public debt” of Brazil of 30 years ago....was that it ??

    And before you come back with more bs, pls note that the Federal Government's debt is 2,8 trillion Reais, or 700 billion dollars.....whatever figure you look at, you soon realize that Brazil is up Shit Creek without a paddle.

    BRasshole, you imbecile, while you were (allegedly) in the Middle East, why didn't you visit ISIS occupied Iraq ?.....you could have always tried selling soybeans to ISIS, and in the bargain get them to cut your stupid head off. Just think of the good you'd be doing for Brazil.

    Feb 28th, 2016 - 12:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Skip

    Seems Iran prefers to trade in Euros not Yuan!

    Unsure where Brasileiro went.

    Feb 28th, 2016 - 10:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • L0B0MAU

    Just out of curiosity;
    - what's the Lowest Level below the status of a “Junk Territory”
    - how long Brazil is most likely to take; to reach it?

    Mar 02nd, 2016 - 06:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Marti Llazo

    @18 It depends on the rating agency. And junk of course is just an informal expression meaning either “Argentine sovereign debt instruments” or “below investment grade and with high risk.” Typically a rating below mere junk would be “junk in default” or “Argentine sovereign debt instruments.”

    Mar 02nd, 2016 - 09:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • L0B0MAU

    Thanx Marti!

    To me, “junk in default” sounds a bit “glorifying” - like calling the Forever-Underdeveloped Countries as the “Emerging Nations”! Should't the “junk in default” simply be stamped - in red colored capital letters - as “bankrupt” instead?

    And how would you answer my next question: “How long Brazil is most likely to take; to reach it?”

    Mar 03rd, 2016 - 12:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    For once Evans-Pritchard has something about right:
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/03/02/only-the-imf-can-now-save-brazil/

    Mar 03rd, 2016 - 01:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Marti Llazo

    @20 “ Should't the “junk in default” simply be stamped - in red colored capital letters - as “bankrupt” instead?”

    - Probably should, but technically countries can't go “bankrupt.” Though for Argentina it probably makes sense to create a special term that means “ so chronically unable to manage its economic and financial affairs that insolvency would be far too charitable a label.”

    Mar 03rd, 2016 - 04:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • L0B0MAU

    Technicality and theory is one thing but in reality; a “junk in default” is till called bankrupt.

    Mar 03rd, 2016 - 04:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Marti Llazo

    No, a sovereign debt in default is in default. There is no bankruptcy for countries. Insolvency and sovereign default, yes. But not bankruptcy.

    Mar 03rd, 2016 - 05:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • L0B0MAU

    Recovery Eludes Brazil Economy After Biggest Dive in 25 Years:
    www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-03/brazil-s-economy-shrinks-less-than-forecast-in-fourth-quarter

    Mar 03rd, 2016 - 09:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Marti Llazo

    Speaking of failed economies.... remember when Argentina expropriated [stole] YPF from Repsol?

    Earnings at YPF were down 49 percent for 2015.

    But of course failure under Kirchnerism is rewarded: the head guy at YPF reportedly made about US$5 million for the year.

    Mar 03rd, 2016 - 10:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • L0B0MAU

    According to Guardian: Brazil's economy slumps to 25-year low:
    http://www.einnews.com/yicha/article/314726082/Dqiul9NlXvEahN_K

    Mar 04th, 2016 - 12:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Marti Llazo

    Lula's house raided and searched. Lula taken into custody.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/05/world/americas/brazil-raid-luiz-incio-lula-da-silva.html?_r=0

    Mar 04th, 2016 - 03:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0

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