El-Erian : S&P Under Pressure not to Downgrade

Mohamed El-Erian :" the good news is that the deal hopefully lifts spectre, this threat of default that was with us. what we don't know is what the rating agencies and one in particular, s&p will do."
"it matters because contracts are written in different ways. some contracts specific the highest of the rating, others do the lowest of the ratings. it does matter. we need to see if s&p sticks to what it said on july 14th when it put the rating on a negative watch which is a presumption of a town grade. it will down gad because the size of the deal is not large enough and the two stage raises a lot of questions of implementation. only s&p and i suspect they are under pressure not to downgrade."


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