This is bad. S&P had previously assigned a rating of B- to Jamaica. In financial parlance, a B- rating sovereign rating suggests that the country is perceived as “high risk” by would-be lenders; in a word, “junk”. By downgrading Jamaica to triple-C, S&P is saying the island is ” currently vulnerable and dependent on favorable [...]
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