Standard and Poor’s downgrade of US Treasury obligations should not have come as a surprise and the move’s direct implications for global financial markets should be limited. The agency had earlier served notice by putting US debt on negative watch; the downgrade gave investors no information about Washington’s broken fiscal machinery they did not already have; and the other agencies have so far maintained their ratings. The indirect implications of the downgrade, though, may prove more troublesome.
標準普爾(Standard and Poor's)調降美國國債評級，本來不足爲奇；此舉對全球金融市場的直接影響也應該是有限的。標普先前已發出過正式警告，將美國債務評級列入負面觀察名單；此次降級所提供的、關於美國破產的財政機器的資訊，都是投資者已經掌握的；到目前爲止，其它評級機構仍維持著它們原先對美國國債的評級。不過，美債降級的間接影響可能會更加棘手。
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