S&P downgrades U.S. debt from AAA

Standard & Poor's telah menurunkan kadar pinjaman US dari AAA ke AA. Dengan kata lain US menunjukkan keupayaan membayar hutang US semakin teruk. Adakah ini tanda-tanda USD akan musnah. Segala tidakan yang dilakukan oleh Obama tak menjadi. Semua matawang yang bersandarkan kepada USD akan turut musnah. Cuba baca sebahagian dari berita ni:

(CBS/AP)
Credit rating agency Standard & Poor's says it has downgraded the United States' credit rating for the first time in the history of the ratings.

The credit rating agency says that it is cutting the country's top AAA rating by one notch to AA-plus. The credit agency said late Friday that it is making the move because the deficit reduction plan passed by Congress on Tuesday did not go far enough to stabilize the country's debt situation and that the policymaking is not stable or effective as needed to address the current economic challenge.

S&P said in a statement that "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 18, 2011."

It added: "The outlook on the long-term rating is negative. We could lower the long-term rating to 'AA' within the next two years if we see that less reduction in spending than agreed to, higher interest rates, or new fiscal pressures during the period result in a higher general government debt trajectory than we currently assume in our base case."

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