{"id":105546,"date":"2017-11-26T06:11:48","date_gmt":"2017-11-26T04:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-news-sp-downgrades-south-africa-rating\/"},"modified":"2017-11-26T06:11:48","modified_gmt":"2017-11-26T04:11:48","slug":"sa-news-sp-downgrades-south-africa-rating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-news-sp-downgrades-south-africa-rating\/","title":{"rendered":"SA News: S&amp;P downgrades South Africa rating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=6B6FDD885A5B4E7F93262B1B8DB90B3C&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.ft.com%2fcontent%2fc9328624-d194-11e7-b781-794ce08b24dc&#038;c=3968948826169414214&#038;mkt=en-us\">S&#038;P downgrades South Africa rating<\/a>: South Africa suffered another blow when a major credit rating agency downgraded the country\u2019s local debt to \u201cjunk\u201d and sent its currency sliding again. S&#038;P also trimmed the rating on South Africa\u2019s international debt on Friday by one notch, to BB &#8230;<br \/>\n<small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=6B6FDD885A5B4E7F93262B1B8DB90B3C&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.ft.com%2fcontent%2fc9328624-d194-11e7-b781-794ce08b24dc&#038;c=3968948826169414214&#038;mkt=en-us\">&#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews<\/a><\/small><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=6B6FDD885A5B4E7F93262B1B8DB90B3C&#038;url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.brudirect.com%2fnews.php%3fid%3d37170&#038;c=7253084021127789772&#038;mkt=en-us\">S&#038;P Cuts South Africa Debt Rating, Moody&#8217;s Issues Warning<\/a>: S&#038;P Global Ratings cut South Africa\u2019s local-currency debt score to junk on Friday, while Moody\u2019s Investors Service also threatened to slash its ranking to the same level, raising the risk of a selloff from global indexes. S&#038;P lowered the country\u2019s &#8230;<br \/>\n<small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=6B6FDD885A5B4E7F93262B1B8DB90B3C&#038;url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.brudirect.com%2fnews.php%3fid%3d37170&#038;c=7253084021127789772&#038;mkt=en-us\">&#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews<\/a><\/small><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=6B6FDD885A5B4E7F93262B1B8DB90B3C&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fcitizen.co.za%2fopinion%2f1740037%2fdin-in-zim-may-wake-south-africa-up%2f&#038;c=18415647521883796116&#038;mkt=en-us\">Din in Zim may wake South Africa up<\/a>: There is no certainty the events of the past 10 days will bring democracy to Zimbabwe. But it is conceivable they will awake South Africans from their own sleepwalk along the path that destroyed Zimbabwe. Commentators have been scurrying to \u201cdraw lessons &#8230;<br \/>\n<small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=6B6FDD885A5B4E7F93262B1B8DB90B3C&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fcitizen.co.za%2fopinion%2f1740037%2fdin-in-zim-may-wake-south-africa-up%2f&#038;c=18415647521883796116&#038;mkt=en-us\">&#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews<\/a><\/small><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S&#038;P downgrades South Africa rating: South Africa suffered another blow when a major credit rating agency downgraded the country\u2019s local debt to \u201cjunk\u201d and sent its currency sliding again. S&#038;P also trimmed the rating on South Africa\u2019s international debt on Friday by one notch, to BB &#8230; Source: &#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews S&#038;P Cuts South [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[428,25262,830,2073,3576],"class_list":{"0":"post-105546","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-africa","8":"tag-downgrades","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-rating","11":"tag-south","12":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}