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S & P cuts Tata Motors rating from BB- to B+ and credit watch with negative implications

26 Mar 2009 Evaluate

Even before the jubilation of launch of World’s cheapest car Tata Nano is over, Standard and Poor’s rating services has lowered the Corporate credit rating of Tata Motors from BB- to B+.  Worse still, the rating remains under credit watch with negative implications.  Similar downward revision of the company’s unsecured notes have also been made from BB- to B+ and the rating is also kept under credit watch with negative implications.

S & P said that there is material deterioration in Tata Motor’s cash flows and related metrics on a consolidated basis.  This was derived from an adverse operating environment, which combined with significantly higher debt levels, will affect its credit protection measures beyond those consistent with BB rating category.

The credit watch with negative implications reflects the pending refinancing for the remaining US$ 2 billion of bridge loan facility which is due on 2nd June 2009 and also the significantly high level of short term debt as of 31st December 2008.   On the newly launched Nano, S & P said that it has the potential to gradually provide material benefit to Tata Motors cash flows after fiscal 2010 post the commissioning of the Gujarat Plant. crackcrack

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