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Moody's updates its Sovereign Bond Ratings Methodology with Minor Changes

London, 22 December 2016-- Moody's Investors Service has today updated its sovereign bond rating methodology replacing "Sovereign Bond Ratings" dated December 18, 2015. There were a number of minor changes made that provide additional transparency into certain areas of the analysis, including the factor-level adjustments that the rating agency makes in the scorecard it uses as a tool to rate sovereign issuers. The updated methodology also includes a minor quantitative...
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