Sunday 3 May 2009

Kuwait bank urges measures to avoid downgrade

Kuwait's central bank urged a better political climate and measures to weather the global crisis after warnings by some agencies of a downgrading of the country's sovereign rating, the state news agency reported.

Moody's Investors Service said in March it may cut Kuwait's sovereign rating due to a protracted political crisis which is threatening the country's ability to cope with the financial downturn.

"Such an event as a drop in rating alerts us to the urgent need to sustain a political atmosphere that best prepares us to counter the economic challenges," Shaikh Salem Abdul Aziz Al Sabah, governor of the bank, said. "We ourselves have to reach a national consensus on economic issues ... and take steps and measures to overcome the economic slump."

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