{"id":495553,"date":"2022-06-02T09:10:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T03:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=495553"},"modified":"2022-06-02T13:45:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T08:15:00","slug":"moodys-upgrades-bpcl-outlook-to-stable-as-govt-calls-off-stake-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/moodys-upgrades-bpcl-outlook-to-stable-as-govt-calls-off-stake-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Moody&#8217;s upgrades BPCL outlook to &#8216;stable&#8217; as govt calls off stake sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rating agency Moody&#8217;s has upgraded the outlook on rating Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) from &#8216;negative&#8217; to &#8216;stable&#8217; as the government&#8217;s decision to call off the proposed stake sale in the company eliminates the risk of potential deterioration in its credit quality.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the divestment had occurred, we would have reassessed the sovereign support currently incorporated in BPCL&#8217;s rating that results in a one-notch uplift,&#8221; said Sweta Patodia, assistance and vice president and analyst, Moody&#8217;s. On May 26, 2022, the government called off the process for the strategic divestment of its 52.98 per cent stake in the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rating agency Moody&#8217;s has upgraded the outlook on rating Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) from &#8216;negative&#8217; to &#8216;stable&#8217; as the government&#8217;s decision to call off the proposed stake sale in the company eliminates the risk of potential deterioration in its credit quality. &#8220;If the divestment had occurred, we would have reassessed the sovereign support currently incorporated in BPCL&#8217;s rating that results in a one-notch uplift,&#8221; said Sweta Patodia, assistance and vice president and analyst, Moody&#8217;s. On May 26, 2022, the government called off the process for the strategic divestment of its 52.98 per cent stake in the company.<\/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":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495553","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=495553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}