{"id":385760,"date":"2020-11-24T08:30:45","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T03:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=385760"},"modified":"2020-11-24T09:12:46","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T03:42:46","slug":"credit-risks-rising-for-infrastructure-projects-in-india-says-sp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/credit-risks-rising-for-infrastructure-projects-in-india-says-sp\/","title":{"rendered":"Credit risks rising for infrastructure projects in India, says S&amp;P"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hit to India\u2019s infrastructure sector from the Covid-19 pandemic will continue to be felt in 2021, even as the economy revives following the lifting of the nationwide lockdown, according to rating agency Standard &amp; Poor\u2019s (S&amp;P). <\/p>\n<p>Credit risks are rising because of increasing debt levels and a weakening of counter parties. Refinancing remains difficult for speculative grade-rated issuers, the rating agency said in its presentation on \u2018India&#8217;s Infrastructure Recovery Won&#8217;t Be Quick\u2019. <\/p>\n<p>Roads <\/p>\n<p>Dwelling on the specific segments of Indian infrastructure, the agency said in the roads segment, a steep fall has been followed by a sharp recovery. This gives confidence that traffic risk will subside. The annuity road projects are insulated from traffic risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hit to India\u2019s infrastructure sector from the Covid-19 pandemic will continue to be felt in 2021, even as the economy revives following the lifting of the nationwide lockdown, according to rating agency Standard &amp; Poor\u2019s (S&amp;P). Credit risks are rising because of increasing debt levels and a weakening of counter parties. Refinancing remains difficult for speculative grade-rated issuers, the rating agency said in its presentation on \u2018India&#8217;s Infrastructure Recovery Won&#8217;t Be Quick\u2019. Roads Dwelling on the specific segments of Indian infrastructure, the agency said in the roads segment, a steep fall has been followed by a sharp recovery. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}