Borrowers are wondering how European monetary union (Emu), if it happens, will affect their credit ratings.
Rating agencies Ibca, Moody’s Investors Service and Standard and Poor’s all intend (on different timetables) to assign a single ceiling rating to the whole of the Emu area. Given the strength of the area as a whole, this will be AAA, which will in effect become the sovereign rating. Governments will still receive ratings but these will be used purely for measuring the creditworthiness of each government’s debt, not that of the whole country.
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