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BULLET: US: S&P, re its US downgrade, says: We have lowered..
06-ago-2011
US: S&P, re its US downgrade, says: We have lowered our long-term
sovereign credit rating on the United States of America to 'AA+' from
'AAA' and affirmed the 'A-1+' short-term rating. We have also removed
both the short- and long-term ratings from CreditWatch negative. The
downgrade reflects our opinion that the fiscal consolidation plan that
Congress and the Administration recently agreed to falls short of what,
in our view, would be necessary to stabilize the government's
medium-term debt dynamics. More broadly, the downgrade reflects our view
that the effectiveness, stability, and predictability of American
policymaking and political institutions have weakened at a time of
ongoing fiscal and economic challenges to a degree more than we
envisioned when we assigned a negative outlook to the rating on April