Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Fitch Downgrades Illinois to A-minus

The Bond Buyer reports:
Fitch Ratings late Monday downgraded Illinois’ general obligation rating one notch to A-minus and warned of possible further action by leaving the state’s credit on negative watch ahead of $1.3 billion of short- and long-term GO issuance in three deals over the coming weeks.
Who could forget that Barack Obama was an Illinois state Senator who was part of this problem?