India Ratings & Research (Ind-Ra) said Tuesday, benefits to companies owing to lower interest rates and a reduction in debt are likely to be reversed in the current fiscal year. According to the report, the move will take place because of a sharp rise in interest rates and higher working capital financing needs. Ind-Ra expects … Read more
The story so far: In the Union Budget for 2022-23, the Government has ramped up its capital spending plans to a record 2.9% of the GDP to revive the economy, with an ambitious borrowing plan and a target to reduce fiscal deficit level to 6.4%. Rating agencies, concerned about India’s heightened general government debt levels … Read more
Agency says lower debt trajectory key to reviewing its negative rating outlook on India Rating agencies are not enthused by the fiscal consolidation road map and the lack of major reform proposals in the Union Budget. Fitch Ratings, which has a negative outlook on India’s sovereign rating, said that beyond the higher capex drive, the … Read more
Moody’s Investors Service Inc.’s move to ramp up Tesla Inc.’s credit rating to the cusp of investment grade is bolstering expectations that the famous electric vehicle maker will secure blue-chip status as soon as early next year. The agency boosted Tesla by two notches to the highest junk rating of Ba1 on Monday, citing improving … Read more
Ratings on Wednesday said a broad-based recovery is on for India Inc currently, and upgraded its credit quality outlook to ‘positive’ from the earlier ‘cautiously optimistic’. The rating agency said the credit ratio, which illustrates the number of upgrades to downgrades, rose to over 2.5 times in the first four months of the fiscal, as … Read more
Two domestic credit rating agencies are leading the way in forming a self-regulatory organisation for the sector. CARE Ratings and Acuite Ratings & Research have set up a unit to evolve a common code of conduct and practices to prevent a recurrence of defaults such as those by IL&FS and DHFL. This is the first … Read more
Moody’s downgrades India’s sovereign rating to ‘Baa3’ from ‘Baa2’ with negative outlook. This is one shot away from non investment grade – though it’s unlikely that would happen. It’s also reasonable to expect that in all likelihood, S&P will follow soon. They are currently one step higher at BBB- with stable outlook. Mostly, they would … Read more
Post Franklin saga, an effort to answer some underlying fundamental questions. Why it happens that happens… whether this is for me… if yes, which one?