We are still comfortable. In a BB range, we do have some tolerance for political noise. |
We were always skeptical about how fast consumer recovery (would) be. It had been pretty slow. This year, we've revised our growth forecast for the Korean economy to 5 percent based on strong fourth-quarter numbers that we saw, particularly in consumption. The export sector still looks positive. |
We will wait until taxes are actually implemented, that revenue is being collected. We will look at whether or not the tax rate will increase, but we assume it will. |
We would like public finance and development issues to be addressed by authorities, including an improvement in per capita income, before we can consider China for a ratings review and a possible upgrade. |
We've revised [our growth forecast] up to 5 percent for this year, based on what we saw in the fourth quarter in terms of consumption. The strength of consumption surprised us somewhat in how robust it was. |
What would be under consideration is what to do with the negative outlook - whether to revert that back to stable, or to retain the negative outlook, or to downgrade the credit. But upgrading (the rating) from a negative outlook is not something that happens very frequently, and I don't expect that would happen in the case of the Philippines. |
When you've got credit growth that already exceeds (gross domestic product growth), that's a lot of new credit. |
While the e-VAT and the impeachment issue have both been resolved favorably in recent days, we are maintaining our negative outlook on the Philippines' ratings. |
You don't see much opposition to her policy initiatives. I think it's more of a power struggle than a policy struggle. |