Report Card: Asia-Pacific Sovereigns: Mixed Outlook In An Uncertain Year Mar 12

Standard & Poors, March 2012

Abstract
As anticipated in our previous report card, we've had no sovereign upgrade in Asia-Pacific over the past six months (see "Asia-Pacific Sovereigns: Is The Positive Rating Trend On Hold?" published Sept. 19, 2011, on RatingsDirect on the Global Credit Portal). A couple of new positive outlooks have been balanced by an even greater number of downgrades, although the latter was partly driven by criteria changes. Between late September 2011 and March this year, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services downgraded three foreign-currency sovereign ratings in the region (see table 1). Ratings on Cambodia and the Cook Islands were lowered late 2011 due to changes in our sovereign criteria published in last year (see "Sovereign Government Rating Methodology and Assumptions," published June...

Companies mentioned in this report are: Thailand (Kingdom of),Singapore (Republic of) (Unsolicited Ratings),Taiwan (Republic of China) (Unsolicited Ratings),Vietnam (Socialist Republic of),Sri Lanka (Democratic Socialist Republic of)

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Research Type: Commentary
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Thailand (Kingdom of),Singapore (Republic of) (Unsolicited Ratings),Taiwan (Republic of China) (Unsolicited Ratings),Vietnam (Socialist Republic of),Sri Lanka (Democratic Socialist Republic of)

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