Den grekiska tragedin blir bara värre för varje dag som går. Inte för att det kommer som någon direkt överraskning. Det var trots allt bara en tidsfråga innan verkligheten skulle hinna ikapp.
Först kom en nyhet om att Norge planerar att stoppa alla stödutbetalningar till Grekland. Här är ett utdrag från ZeroHedge:
And here comes the first domino: according to Swiss journal NZZ, the Greek bailout is about to take a turn for the worse. “Norway will first stop all further financial aid payments to the highly indebted Greece. The reason is that Greece does not fulfill its obligations descendants, the Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store said on Thursday before the Parliament.” And with Norway which is a member of the European Economic Area, and actually one of the few solvent and non-basket case European countries saying let the chips fall where they may, it is just the first. Look for every other country currently on the sidelines vis-a-vis Greece (and just as insolvent) to follow suit as the European experiment falls apart.
Och sedan kom Fitch med en nedgradering av Grekland med hela tre steg till B+ och med negativa utsikter dessutom. Fitch passade också på att nämna att en förlängning av återbetalningen av grekiska lån skulle likställas med en ‘default’.
Här är ett utdrag från Reuters:
Fitch pushed Greece’s credit rating deeper into junk territory on Friday, warning of even further downgrades if the EU and the IMF do not come up with a credible plan to resolve the country’s debt crisis.
One year into its EU/IMF bailout, Greece is struggling with weak revenues and a deep recession, fuelling speculation that it will have to restructure its debt to pull itself out of the fiscal mess that triggered a euro zone crisis.
“The rating downgrade reflects the scale of the challenge facing Greece in implementing a radical fiscal and structural reform program necessary to secure solvency of the state and the foundations for sustained economic recovery,” Fitch said in a statement.
The three-notch cut to ‘B+’ with a negative outlook takes Fitch’s rating into “highly speculative” territory, broadly in line with Standard & Poor’s ‘B’ rating and Moody’s ‘B1′ grade. Both have also warned they could drag it deeper into junk.
“In the absence of a fully funded and credible EU/IMF program, the rating would likely fall into the ‘CCC’ category indicating that a Greek sovereign debt default was highly likely,” Fitch said in the statement.
The chairman of the 17-country Eurogroup Jean-Claude Juncker acknowledged for the first time on Tuesday Greece may have to move toward a “soft restructuring” of its debt.
Fitch warned that it would consider any extension of debt maturities — “soft restructuring” or “re-profiling” — to be a default event.
Frankrikes finansminister Lagarde spädde på med uttalanden om att Grekland är farligt nära en default.
Lagarde vet med alla sannolikhet precis som vi hur otroligt illa detta kommer att sluta, inte bara för Grekland utan för hela världsekonomin. Rekommenderar att läsa Den kommande Finansiella Tsunamin för er som inte redan gjort det.
Det är samtidigt intressant att notera att guld stiger kraftigt pga den grekiska utvecklingen, trots en stigande dollar. Precis som det skall vara med andra ord.
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