{"id":127531,"date":"2018-12-06T18:11:49","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T16:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-news-fitch-keeps-south-africas-sovereign-rating-unchanged\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T18:11:49","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T16:11:49","slug":"sa-news-fitch-keeps-south-africas-sovereign-rating-unchanged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-news-fitch-keeps-south-africas-sovereign-rating-unchanged\/","title":{"rendered":"SA News: Fitch keeps South Africa\u2019s sovereign rating unchanged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=5D23B250E0A94807A7D3CBE98FAACA80&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fnewstage.com.ng%2f2018%2f12%2f06%2ffitch-keeps-south-africas-sovereign-rating-unchanged%2f&#038;c=11106761315692472785&#038;mkt=en-us\">Fitch keeps South Africa\u2019s sovereign rating unchanged<\/a>: JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) \u2013 Ratings firm Fitch on Thursday kept South Africa sub-investment grade credit rating steady at subinvestment and maintained its stable outlook, but warned that low growth and r&#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=5D23B250E0A94807A7D3CBE98FAACA80&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fnewstage.com.ng%2f2018%2f12%2f06%2ffitch-keeps-south-africas-sovereign-rating-unchanged%2f&#038;c=11106761315692472785&#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=5D23B250E0A94807A7D3CBE98FAACA80&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.cnbcafrica.com%2finsights%2fsa-downgrade%2f2018%2f12%2f06%2ffitch-ratings-keeps-south-africa-at-junk-status%2f&#038;c=11770780794927183529&#038;mkt=en-us\">Fitch Ratings keeps South Africa at junk status<\/a>: South Africa&#8217;s ratings are weighed down by low growth potential, sizeable government debt and contingent liabilities and the risk of rising social tensions due to extremely high inequality. South Afri&#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=5D23B250E0A94807A7D3CBE98FAACA80&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.cnbcafrica.com%2finsights%2fsa-downgrade%2f2018%2f12%2f06%2ffitch-ratings-keeps-south-africa-at-junk-status%2f&#038;c=11770780794927183529&#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=5D23B250E0A94807A7D3CBE98FAACA80&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fbusinesstech.co.za%2fnews%2fwealth%2f289360%2fsouth-africans-can-visit-these-94-countries-without-a-visa%2f&#038;c=94741847382000211&#038;mkt=en-us\">South Africans can visit these 94 countries without a visa in 2019<\/a>: While South Africa ranks 44th on the overall list, it has shown steady annual improvements \u2013 rising to 94 countries in 2018 from 90 countries at the end of 2017. This number could increase even &#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=5D23B250E0A94807A7D3CBE98FAACA80&#038;url=https%3a%2f%2fbusinesstech.co.za%2fnews%2fwealth%2f289360%2fsouth-africans-can-visit-these-94-countries-without-a-visa%2f&#038;c=94741847382000211&#038;mkt=en-us\">&#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews<\/a><\/small><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fitch keeps South Africa\u2019s sovereign rating unchanged: JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) \u2013 Ratings firm Fitch on Thursday kept South Africa sub-investment grade credit rating steady at subinvestment and maintained its stable outlook, but warned that low growth and r&#8230; Source: &#8220;South Africa&#8221; &#8211; BingNews Fitch Ratings keeps South Africa at junk status: South Africa&#8217;s ratings are weighed [&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":[4635,22150,6780,830,2073,3576,20851,8215],"class_list":{"0":"post-127531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-africas","8":"tag-fitch","9":"tag-keeps","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-rating","12":"tag-south","13":"tag-sovereign","14":"tag-unchanged","15":"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\/127531","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=127531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}