Coronavirus-triggered global recession to put pressure on non-financial companies in Asia-Pacific: Moody's

16 Jul 2020 Evaluate
Expressing worries, global rating agency, Moody's Investors Service in its latest report has said the coronavirus-triggered global recession will continue to put pressure on non-financial companies in Asia-Pacific, and negative credit trends will persist through the rest of 2020. Moody's also said the outlook remains highly uncertain for all Asia-Pacific economies, with pace of recovery uneven across all countries.

As per the report, although fiscal and monetary stimulus programmes in both advanced and emerging markets have helped stabilise financial markets and provided temporary relief to companies, operating performance and financing capability of companies are vulnerable to financial market shocks, particularly if a second wave of infections results in renewed lockdowns.

The rating agency is expecting the recovery from this recession to be prolonged, although the easing of lockdown measures should support a gradual recovery in H2. The ability of businesses to recover will depend on the pace at which consumer demand rebounds, which in turn hinges on governments' ability to restore confidence by reducing fear of contagion.

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