Moody's Outlook for India

Why is it in the news?
  • Moody’s Investors Service has downgraded its outlook on India to ‘negative’ from ‘stable'.
More in the news
  • Moody's has left India’s current rating (Baa2) unchanged.
  • It imply that the slowing economy has not yet affected India’s current rating, but could in the future.
  • The Moody’s decision represents a downgrade in its expectations of the future performance of the economy.
  • Moody’s decision to change the outlook to ‘negative’ reflects increasing risks that economic growth will remain materially lowe.
  • It may leading to a gradual rise in the debt burden from already high levels.
  • About Moody's:
(1) Moody's is a global rating agency.
(2) Moody's Corporation is the holding company that owns:
(a) Moody's Investor Services, which rates fixed income debt securities.
(b) Moody's Analytics, which provides software and research for economic analysis and risk management.

  • Moody's assigns ratings on the basis of assessed risk and the borrower's ability to make interest payments, and its ratings are closely watched by many investors.
Source
The Hindu.




Posted by Jawwad Kazi on 9th Nov 2019