Victoria Stripped of AAA Credit Rating Due to CCP Virus Lockdown

Victoria Stripped of AAA Credit Rating Due to CCP Virus Lockdown
Two trams operating on a quiet intersection in the Melbourne Central business district on August 06, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia. Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images
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Victoria, Australia has been stripped of its AAA credit rating due mainly to the economic impacts of the state’s 112-day lockdown in response to the CCP virus.

Standard and Poor (S&P) downgraded the rating by two notches from AAA to AA on Monday, citing a weak fiscal outlook; in a move could cost the state more than $10 million a year.

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