Moody’s cuts China’s credit outlook to negative

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Rating agency Moody’s Investors Service cut its outlook on China’s sovereign credit rating to negative on Tuesday, citing growing risks of persistently lower midterm economic growth and the overhang from a crisis in the property sector.

Moody’s said there was rising evidence that the government and state companies would…