U.S. credit downgrade: Mohamed El-Erian says it’s ‘surprising’
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#uscredit #usdebt #fed #usdebt #yahoofinance Ratings agency Fitch surprised a lot of people when it downgraded its rating on U.S. debt from AAA to AA+. Allianz Chief Economic Advisor Mohamed El-Erian tells Yahoo Finance Live that he was surprised by the move too, and that “what Fitch put in their statement has been true for a while, so why now?” “When you look at the reason you scratch your head as to the timing of this,” El-Erian said. On the political issues the downgrade could raise, El-Erian says “domestically, this is likely to fuel more of the polarized conversations that are going on. Internationally, for the adversaries of the U.S., […]