It may also help improve the country's sovereign credit rating.

By saving Mexico a couple of years ago, the authorities changed the way people view sovereign credit risk.

It's now said that the eurozone crisis dominates the global sovereign credit outlook.

Standard and Poor's also lowered Georgia's sovereign credit rating.

Major rating agencies have lowered Japan's sovereign credit rating and said more cuts may be coming.

Sovereign credit is the opposite of sovereign debt.

When money buys bonds, sovereign credit cancels sovereign debt.

The sovereign credit rating indicates the risk level of the investing environment of a country and is used by investors looking to invest abroad.

Furthermore, Finland's sovereign credit rating was downgraded.

Sovereign credit is the credit of a sovereign country backed by the financial resources of that state.

Fiat money is sovereign credit and sovereign bonds are sovereign debts.

Sovereign credit risk is the risk of a government becoming unwilling or unable to meet its loan obligations, as happened to Cyprus in 2013.

Russia's sovereign credit rating, he said, had recently been lifted to investment grade by Moody's Investors Service.

A sovereign credit rating is the credit rating of a sovereign entity, i.e., a national government.

"However most analysts agree that if the sovereign credit crisis in the EU spreads, then sterling has the advantage of not being in the euro.

Politics and government policies can have a profound impact on capital markets, through currency controls, financial regulatory changes, sovereign credit defaults, and corruption, among other things.

He's the mustachioed, chain-smoking head of sovereign credit ratings for S&P, the largest and arguably most influential member of the big three."

April 27 - Greece's sovereign credit rating is downgraded to junk, four days after its government asked for help in resolving its Financial Crisis.

Other types of risk include government currency actions, regulatory changes, sovereign credit defaults, endemic corruption, war declarations and government composition changes.

Ladies and gentlemen, today I also began a consultation on short selling, which also covers sovereign credit default swaps (CDS).

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said the trade agreement could raise the sovereign credit ratings of the six Latin American countries participating in it.

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services also revised its outlook on the long-term foreign and local currency sovereign credit ratings of Pakistan from stable to negative.

Major credit rating agencies give out the sovereign credit rating of each nation as an absolute grade - see list of countries by credit rating.

Despite the picture of economic resilience in the Government data released today, the Standard & Poor's Corporation changed China's long-term foreign-currency sovereign credit to negative from stable.

She was instrumental in helping Nigeria obtain its first ever sovereign credit rating (of BB minus) from Fitch and Standard & Poor's.