Portugal: DBRS reviews credit rating this week - BBH

Research Team at BBH, suggests that at the end of the week, DBRS will update its assessment of Portugal's sovereign credit rating. 

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“The ECB recognizes four rating agencies and provided that at least one rates a country as investment grade, the country's bonds will be including in the asset purchase program.  A country's rating also determines the haircut given to the government bonds used by banks to secure funding from the ECB.  A loss of investment grade status would make the country's bonds no longer acceptable as collateral (without a waiver).”