Fitch to Unveil France's Rating: 'Status Quo Is the Likely Scenario'
Fitch is expected to review France’s debt as the country’s 10-year bond yield rises to 4.1%, its highest level since 2010.
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While the financial rating agency is scheduled to re-evaluate France on Friday, August 28th at night, a salve of disillusioning statistics, particularly on growth, has been published, which seriously complicates the government's task in preparing the 2027 budget.
France's government bond yields, and therefore the cost of financing the country's debt, have recently surpassed those of traditionally sinning Italy. This is unusual, the financial daily The Financial Times pointed out. Investors are nervous about the country's growing debt, complicated budget negotiations and the upcoming presidential election.
Fitch to unveil France's rating: 'Status quo is the likely scenario'
Fitch, the global credit rating powerhouse, cut France's rating in September of 2025 and upheld it in March 2026. Despite a weaker outlook, Fitch may now delay tougher action until 2027, experts told Euronews.
DECRYPTAGE - The agency pronounces at one month of the announcement of the budgetary choices of Sébastien Lecornu, and against the background of the rates.
At the time of its last update in early March, the rating agency welcomed the strength of the French economy and its institutions, while pointing to a high public debt and a political context limiting the possibilities to clean up public finances. Fitch currently attributed the A+ rating to France, i.e. a debt of "high average quality". This note is accompanied by a stable perspective, which means that it is unlikely – but not impossible – that …
On the Road to a French Sovereign Debt Crisis
France’s compromised public finances might not be quite as bad as those of the United States and Japan. However, there are two reasons to think that France could experience a sovereign debt crisis before those two other countries. The first is that France is scheduled to have a presidential election next April that could materially worsen the country’s public finance outlook. The second is that France is stuck in a Euro straitjacket that highly …
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