Standard and Poor’s downgrade of US Treasury obligations should not have come as a surprise and the move’s direct implications for global financial markets should be limited. The agency had earlier served notice by putting US debt on negative watch; the downgrade gave investors no information about Washington’s broken fiscal machinery they did not already have; and the other agencies have so far maintained their ratings. The indirect implications of the downgrade, though, may prove more troublesome.
标准普尔(Standard and Poor's)调降美国国债评级,本来不足为奇;此举对manbetx app苹果 金融市场的直接影响也应该是有限的。标普先前已发出过正式警告,将美国债务评级列入负面观察名单;此次降级所提供的、关于美国破产的财政机器的信息,都是投资者已经掌握的;到目前为止,其它评级机构仍维持着它们原先对美国国债的评级。不过,美债降级的间接影响可能会更加棘手。