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Uk's Credit Rating Downgraded By Moody's

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mikey4444 | 10:30 Sat 23rd Sep 2017 | News
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41369239

Oh dear......."It (Moody's) said leaving the European Union was creating economic uncertainty at a time when the UK's debt reduction plans were already off course"
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Is this another of your 'for information only' posts?
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Yes Zacs....well spotted !
Thanks for the information and heads up Mikey.

No other comment needed really is there lol
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No Cassa....Moody's is one of the most influential organisations of its type....best to just ignore them and hope they will go away !
What do you suggest we do, Mikey?
I remember when YouGov was the most influential market research organisation on Answerbank ... it oddly went away.
Mikey, it was downgraded fromAA1 to AA2, could you enlighten me to what that means exactly?
mikey; //Oh dear......."It (Moody's) said leaving the European Union was creating economic uncertainty at a time when the UK's debt reduction plans were already off course"//

There sounds to be an element of gloating in your quoting of that, and yet may I remind you that the national debt of the UK is, ten years after the crash, still rising by £47 billion a year (or £5,000 by the time you finish reading this sentence)
Yet you would be perfectly happy to allow a clown like John McDonnell to be in charge of the exchequer - what do you think it might look like then?
When we get to Greece/Albania rating I'll show a scintilla of concern.
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Khandro....so, for all these long years of "we are all in this together" and austerity, and pay cuts for millions of people, our national debt is still rising ?

The Tories have been in power for over 7 years, and this is the best that they can do ?

It doesn't look OK for the next 5 years then does it ?
Mikey, can you please answer my post at 11.10.
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Danny....yes, more than happy ( been shopping)

From the link above :::::

"Credit rating agencies, in essence, rate a country on the strength of its economy - scoring governments or large companies on how likely they are to pay back their debt.

A rating downgrade can affect how much it costs governments to borrow money in the international financial markets.

In theory, a high credit rating means a lower interest rate, and vice versa"
But what classification of rating is AA2?
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Its all in the link Danny.
I thought it was Standard & Poor.

Not to worry.

S&P and Moody's were the bent outfits who gave triple A ratings to the dodgy derivatives which led to the sub-prime (and Alt-A - nothing to do with white supremacy, Mikey) crisis, weren't they?

Ahhhh. Another 'just for information' post that's turned into a debate. Marvellous.
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Zacs...isn't that what happens to almost all threads in NEWS ?
The greater GB's discomfort the greater some people's pleasure. What's schadenfreude in Welsh (or Arabic)?
It is Mikey. Especially those that are honest about it and post a question.

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