VOL. XLIII

No. 15

10-April-2000

TUNISIA

S&P Raises Tunisias Foreign Currency Rating To BBB

US ratings agency Standard & Poors (S&P) announced on 21 March that it had raised Tunisias long-term foreign currency issuer and senior unsecured debt ratings to triple-B from triple-B minus. The agency also said in a statement that it had affirmed Tunisias A-3 short-term foreign currency issuer credit ratings and its single A/A-1 local currency issuer credit ratings.

The ratings upgrade...