Moody's baja el rating a Rusia por las perspectivas más bajas de crecimiento

NUEVA YORK.- La agencia Moody's bajó la calificación de la deuda soberana de Rusia a "Baa2" desde "Baa1", porque ve perspectivas de crecimiento para el mediano plazo limitadas por la crisis en Ucrania. Moody's dejó la deuda con una perspectiva negativa.

El conflicto militar en Ucrania y la escalada de sanciones contra Rusia probablemente perjudiquen aún más el clima para la inversión, dijo en un comunicado la agencia.

The key drivers for the downgrade and for maintaining the negative outlook are the following:

1) Russia's increasingly subdued medium-term growth prospects, exacerbated by the prolongation of the Ukraine crisis, including through the impact of expanded international sanctions.

2) The gradual, but ongoing erosion of the country's foreign-exchange buffers due to capital flight, Russian borrowers' restricted international market access and low oil prices.

In a related decision, Moody's has lowered Russia's long-term country ceilings for local and foreign-currency debt and for local currency deposits by one notch to A3 from A2 and its short-term country ceilings for foreign-currency debt to P-2 from P-1. 

The long-term country ceiling for foreign-currency bank deposits was lowered to Baa2 from Baa1 while the short-term country ceiling for foreign currency bank deposits was unchanged at P-2.