{"id":248024,"date":"2026-10-24T13:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T11:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-moodys-upgrades-egypt-credit-rating-as-debt-falls-reserves-rise\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T13:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T11:30:12","slug":"egypt-moodys-upgrades-egypt-credit-rating-as-debt-falls-reserves-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-moodys-upgrades-egypt-credit-rating-as-debt-falls-reserves-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: Moody&#8217;s Upgrades Egypt Credit Rating As Debt Falls, Reserves Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"68\">Moody&#8217;s Ratings has upgraded Egypt&#8217;s sovereign credit rating by 1 notch to B3 from Caa1, citing improvements in government finances, lower debt and stronger foreign exchange reserves. The agency maintained a positive outlook on the country&#8217;s local and foreign currency ratings, according to a statement issued on October 16, 2026. The decision reflects progress in Egypt&#8217;s economic reform programme, although borrowing costs and debt repayments remain a concern.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"89\">Egypt recorded a primary budget surplus&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610220016.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moody&#8217;s Ratings has upgraded Egypt&#8217;s sovereign credit rating by 1 notch to B3 from Caa1, citing improvements in government finances, lower debt and stronger foreign exchange reserves. The agency maintained a positive outlook on the country&#8217;s local and foreign currency ratings, according to a statement issued on October 16, 2026. The decision reflects progress in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":248025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,9624,6861,4697,415,7668,2426,257,2428,11008,10256,254,27871],"class_list":["post-248024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-credit","tag-debt","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-falls","tag-moodys","tag-news","tag-rating","tag-reserves","tag-rise","tag-south-africa-today","tag-upgrades"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}