Print Print edition: 2011-05-21

Fitch downgrades Greece

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Fitch Ratings downgraded Greece's long-term foreign and local currency issuer default ratings on Friday to 'B+' from 'BB+ and put the ratings on rating watch negative, it said. The rating downgrade reflects the scale of the challenge facing Greece in implementing a radical fiscal and structural reform programme necessary to secure solvency of the state and the foundations for sustained economic recovery, Fitch said.