Date: Thursday 22 Mar 2012
LONDON (ShareCast) - Standard & Poor's head of sovereign ratings for Europe has told BloombergTV that Portugal can avoid a debt restructuring as its debt level is lower than Greece's and the country has shown greater capacity to implement reforms.
"Portugal in our view has the weakest credit in the Eurozone other than Greece, which has to do with some of the structural challenges theyre facing," said Mortiz Kraemer.
"But compared to Greece the debt is not as high.The implementation capacity for policy reform, the institutions in Portugal are much stronger than in Greece so I think they have a good fighting chance," he said.
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