This is what awaits South Africa if Moody’s cuts credit rating to junk

Posted in: Intellidex in the media on November 8, 2019


South Africa’s chances of avoiding a downgrade after the February budget are 50:50 and a cut could result in R73bn of outflows, says Peter Attard Montalto, Intellidex’s London-based head of capital-markets research. Featured on Bloomberg

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