{"id":31198,"date":"2017-07-19T20:49:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T03:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/sp-joins-moodys-in-downgrading-alaska\/"},"modified":"2017-07-19T20:49:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T03:49:00","slug":"sp-joins-moodys-in-downgrading-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/sp-joins-moodys-in-downgrading-alaska\/","title":{"rendered":"S&amp;P joins Moody\u2019s in downgrading Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANCHORAGE<\/strong> \u2014 S&amp;P Global Ratings has made good on its warning, joining Moody\u2019s Ratings Service in downgrading the State of Alaska\u2019s credit ratings once again as legislators struggle to mend the state\u2019s increasingly tattered finances.<\/p>\n<p>S&amp;P knocked the State of Alaska-backed general obligation rating down one notch to AA from AA+ early July 18, citing a \u201ccontinued lack of agreement on fiscal reforms to return the state to structural balance,\u201d in a statement accompanying the action.<\/p>\n<p>On July 13, Moody\u2019s&nbsp;downgraded Alaska a notch on its scale, from Aa2 to Aa3 for general obligation debt, which translates to a final AA- rating.<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest of the story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alaskajournal.com\/2017-07-18\/sp-joins-moody%E2%80%99s-downgrading-state#.WW-z7IjyuUk\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE \u2014 S&amp;P Global Ratings has made good on its warning, joining Moody\u2019s Ratings Service in downgrading the State of Alaska\u2019s credit ratings once again as legislators struggle to mend the state\u2019s increasingly tattered finances. S&amp;P knocked the State of Alaska-backed general obligation rating down one notch to AA from AA+ early July 18, citing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-31198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31198"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=31198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}