Share thoughts, ideas and perspectives on how Public and Private partnerships can benefit both parties at Golden Networking's Public Finance Leaders Forum 2010, "How Private Funds Can Invest in Government-Owned Property and Public Projects", December 2nd, New York
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(November 13, 2010, New York) Fitch Ratings notes that during the third quarter of 2010 and for the seventh consecutive quarter, U.S. public finance rating downgrades outnumbered upgrades. This will be a topic of discussion at GoldenNetworking.net's Public Finance Leaders Forum 2010, "How Private Funds Can Invest in Government-Owned Property and Public Projects" (http://www.PublicFinanceLeadersForum.com), December 2nd, New York City.
This trend in public finance ratings is expected to continue as Negative Rating Outlooks exceeded Positive Rating Outlooks (4.8:1) and Negative Rating Watches still outweighed Positive Rating Watches (5.0:1) in the third quarter of 2010. However, a majority of the actual rating actions, 74.9%, during the third quarter were affirmations, with no change in Rating Outlook or Rating Watch status. Furthermore, 90.1% of ratings had a Stable Rating Outlook at the end of the third quarter.
During 3Q'10, Fitch's U.S. public finance group downgraded 32 ratings totaling $18.8 billion in par value while upgrading 25 ratings with a par value of $18.1 billion. The downgrade to upgrade ratio by rating changes was 1.3:1, decreased from 1.6 in the prior quarter. On a par value basis, the downgrade to upgrade ratio of 1.04:1 was down from the prior quarter ratio of 2.5:1.
The number of ratings with Negative Outlooks at the end of 3Q'10 increased to 251 from 246. The number of ratings with Positive Outlooks decreased to 52 from 58. The increase in the ratio of Negative Outlooks to Positive Outlooks to 4.8:1 from 4.2:1 marked the tenth consecutive quarter that this ratio has increased. There were 25 ratings on Rating Watch Negative versus 19 in the prior quarter, and only five on Rating Watch Positive at the end of 3Q'10, unchanged from the prior quarter.
The bulk of the downgrades by par value occurred in the tax-backed sector, the largest of which was the downgrade of Chicago general obligation bonds to 'AA' from 'AA+'. The bulk of the upgrades by par value occurred in the public power sector, which had 10 upgrades and no downgrades in 3Q'10; the largest of these by par value was the upgrade of California Department of Water Resources' power supply revenue bonds to 'AA-' from 'A+'.
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