S&P raises Greece rating by two notches on bailout talks with creditors
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ATHENSJul 23, 2015 - 12:00 am GMT+3
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Jul 23, 2015 12:00 am
Standard & Poor's on Tuesday upgraded Greece's sovereign credit rating by two notches and revised its outlook to stable from negative, citing eurozone countries initial agreement to start negotiations with the country on a third bailout. S&P raised its rating for Greece to CCC+ from CCC-, saying the country's liquidity perspective has improved after eurozone finance ministers last week gave their initial consent to a three-year loan program to keep the country in the euro. "We think opportunities for Greece to default on commercial debt this year are few," S&P said in a report. There was a 50 percent chance that Greece quit the single currency union, it said.
S&P is the first to upgrade Greece after it clinched a last-minute deal with its lenders last week which opened the way for bridge financing that will cover Athens' funding needs through July and for bailout talks on a third aid package. The leftist government of Alexis Tsipras tried on Tuesday to rally his Syriza party before a vote in parliament on the second package of measures demanded by international creditors as a condition for opening talks on a new bailout deal.
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