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Report Date : |
04.07.2012 |
IDENTIFICATION DETAILS
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Name : |
GOLDSTAR JEWELLERY LLC |
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Registered Office : |
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Date of Incorporation : |
2004 |
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Legal Form : |
Limited Liability Company |
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Line of business : |
Merchant wholesalers of jewelry, watch, precious stone and precious
metal |
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No. of Employees : |
21 Employees. |
RATING & COMMENTS
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MIRA’s Rating : |
B |
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RATING |
STATUS |
PROPOSED CREDIT LINE |
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26-40 |
B |
Capability to overcome financial difficulties seems comparatively
below average. |
Small |
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Status : |
Moderate |
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Payment Behaviour : |
No complaints |
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Litigation : |
Clear |
NOTES :
Any query related to this report can be made
on e-mail: infodept@mirainform.com
while quoting report number, name and date.
ECGC Country Risk Classification List – March 31st, 2012
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Country Name |
Previous Rating (31.12.2011) |
Current Rating (31.03.2012) |
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A1 |
A1 |
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Risk Category |
ECGC
Classification |
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Insignificant |
A1 |
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Low |
A2 |
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Moderate |
B1 |
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High |
B2 |
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Very High |
C1 |
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Restricted |
C2 |
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Off-credit |
D |
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POLITICAL DATA |
ECONOMIC DATA |
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Form of Government: Federal
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Currency: USD |
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Legal Name: |
GOLDSTAR JEWELLERY LLC |
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Legal Address |
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Operative Address |
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Telephone: |
+1 (212) 391 2021 |
Registration Number : |
3015199 |
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Fax: |
+1 (212) 391 7444 |
Legal Form: |
Limited Liability Company |
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Email: |
Registered in: |
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Website: |
Date Created: |
2004 |
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Manager: |
Michael Lerche, President. |
Date Incorporated: |
February 19th, 2004 |
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Staff: |
21 |
Stock: |
NA |
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Value: |
NA |
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Activity: |
Jewelry, Watch, Precious Stone and Precious Metal Merchant
Wholesalers. |
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Name of the Bank |
HSBC BANK |
BUSINESS
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HISTORY |
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The company was incoporated for business in 2004. |
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PRINCIPAL ACTIVITY |
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The subject is a diamond and jewelry trading company. |
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Products/Services description: |
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It offers tailor-made natural diamonds and specializes in special cut
diamonds. It also offers jewelry. |
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Sales are: |
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Wholesale |
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Clients: |
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Diamond and jewelry retailers. |
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Operations area: |
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International |
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The company imports from |
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The company export to |
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Competitors: |
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Mitsui & Co (U S A ), Inc. Tiffany & Co. Fossil, Inc. |
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The subject employs 21 employees. |
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Comments on staff: |
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The staff number was not verified by the company. |
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PAYMENTS |
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Regular. |
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LOCATION |
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Headquarters |
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The company is headquartered at: |
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Comments on location: |
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There are two others related companies at the same address: Jewel
World LLC and Gold Star Independent LLC. |
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Branches: |
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The company does not present any branches. |
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Listed at the stock exchange: |
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NO |
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Shareholders Parent Company(ies): |
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This is a private company. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of: *Gold Star Jewellery Ltd. Gold Star House, Block ‘C’, Plot 16(P), 17,28 and 29(P), Gems & Jewellery Complex SEEPZ-SEZ, Andheri (East), Mumbai-400 0096, Contact Person: Ashish Shah Tel: +91 22 66947000 Fax: +91 22 28290256 Email: india@goldstarjewellery.com |
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Management: |
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Michael Lerche, President. Mark Moskoviz, Controller. |
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Related Companies: |
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*Gold Star Independent LLC ( *Jewel World LLC ( *Gold Star Europe SRL ( *Gold Star Jewellery India Pvt. Ltd. ( *Gold Star Diamond Pvt. Ltd. ( *Gold Star Jewellery (HK) Ltd. ( *Gold Star Jewellery Japan Co. Ltd. ( |
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Financials - COMMERCIAL TRENDS AND FORECAST
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As a private company the subject does not publish any financial statements. |
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We have contacted Mr. Michael Lerche, President, who refused to
provide us any financial data without knowing the name of the inquiring
party. |
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However our financial sources could provide us with the following
data. Those figures are estimates provided by confidential banking and
financial institutions working with the company. |
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Currency |
DATE |
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USD |
2011 (forecast) |
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Turnover |
2,900,000 |
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The cash flow is |
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Currency |
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USD |
2010 |
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Turnover |
2,800,000 |
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The cash flow is |
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Currency |
DATE |
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USD |
2008 |
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Turnover |
460,000 |
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The cash flow is |
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Legal Fillings |
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There are several UCC** files listed with the Secretary of State of
New York. There are no legal filings listed with the District Court. THE COMPANY IS NOT LISTED ON THE OFAC LIST.* For information: * The Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) List is a publication of
OFAC which lists individuals and organizations with whom ** The Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) is one of a number of uniform
acts that have been promulgated in conjunction with efforts to harmonize the
law of sales and other commercial transactions in all 50 states within the The UCC deals primarily with transactions involving personal property
(movable property), not real property (immovable property). It allows a creditor to notify other creditors about a debtor’s assets
used as collateral for a secured transaction by filing a public notice
(financing statement) with a particular filing office. The Uniform Commercial Code Bureau files and maintains on financial
obligations (including IRS liens) incurred by individuals (in business as a
sole proprietor), business entities and corporations. |
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Local credit bureau gave a The company is in Good Standing. This means that all local and federal
taxes were paid on due date. |
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Final Opinion |
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This is a small sized American company based in The company is active and in good standing according to the Secretary
of State of New York. There are no legal or labor filings against the company listed within
the district court. We have found payment and banking experience recorded for the subject.
The company structure seems to be solid and established in the
industry for its size. It comprises a location in The company is part of the GoldStar Jewellery Group, an international
diamond and jewelry manufacturer and distributor organization based in The financial information for 2010 indicates that the company has been
improving its performance in the market since 2008. Its revenue rate is
correct according to its size and activity. |
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Profitability |
N.A. |
Public Records |
NO |
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Indebtedness |
N.A. |
Payments |
REGULAR |
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Cash |
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Person Interviewed |
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Mr. Michael Lerche. |
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Position |
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President. |
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Comments |
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The contacted person refused to provide information about the company
without knowing the name of the inquiring party. However, he was able to
verify that the company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Gold Star Jewellery
Ltd. ( |
DIAMOND INDUSTRY –
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From time immemorial,
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The achievement of the Indian diamond industry was
possible only due to combination of the manufacturing skills of the Indian
workforce and the untiring and unflagging efforts of the Indian diamantaires,
supported by progressive Government policies.
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The area of study of family owned diamond businesses
derives its importance from the huge conglomerate of family run organizations
which operate in the diamond industry since many generations.
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Some of the basic traits of family run business
enterprises include spirit of entrepreneurship, mutual trust lowers transaction
costs, small, nimble and quick to react, information as a source of advantage
and philanthropy.
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Family owned diamond businesses need to improve on
many fronts including higher standard of corporate governance, long-term
performance – focused strategies, modern management and technology.
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The diamond jewellery industry in
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Utmost caution is to be exercised while dealing with
some medium and large diamond traders which are usually engaged in fictitious
import – export, inter-company transactions, financially assisted by banks. In
the process, several public sector banks lost several hundred million rupees.
They mostly diverted borrowed money for diamond business into real estate and
capital markets.
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Excerpts from Times of India dated 30th
October 2010 is as under –
DIAMOND SAGA – DIRTY DOZEN STUCK WITH 2K CR DEBT
This could be the biggest credibility crisis
the Indian diamond industry has ever faced. Fifteen banks run the risk of
losing Rs 2000 crore lent to a dozen diamond firms in
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Most of the money borrowed from the banks in the name
of their diamond business has been diverted in real estate and the share
market. The banks are not in a position to seize their properties because in
many cases, these were purchased in the name of their relatives and friends.
Standard & Poor’s
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Publication
date: 05-Aug-2011 20:13:14 EST |
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We have lowered our long-term sovereign
credit rating on the United States of America to 'AA+' from 'AAA' and affirmed
the 'A-1+' short-term rating.
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We have also removed both the short- and
long-term ratings from CreditWatch negative.
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The downgrade
reflects our opinion that the fiscal consolidation plan that Congress and the
Administration recently agreed to falls short of what, in our view, would be
necessary to stabilize the government's medium-term debt dynamics.
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More broadly, the
downgrade reflects our view that the effectiveness, stability, and
predictability of American policymaking and political institutions have
weakened at a time of ongoing fiscal and economic challenges to a degree more
than we envisioned when we assigned a negative outlook to the rating on April
18, 2011.
·
Since then, we
have changed our view of the difficulties in bridging the gulf between the
political parties over fiscal policy, which makes us pessimistic about the
capacity of Congress and the Administration to be able to leverage their
agreement this week into a broader fiscal consolidation plan that stabilizes
the government's debt dynamics any time soon.
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The outlook on
the long-term rating is negative. We could lower the long-term rating to 'AA'
within the next two years if we see that less reduction in spending than agreed
to, higher interest rates, or new fiscal pressures during the period result in
a higher general government debt trajectory than we currently assume in our
base case.
The transfer and convertibility (T&C) assessment of the
debt service--remains
'AAA'.
We lowered our long-term rating
on the U.S. because we believe that the prolonged controversy over raising the
statutory debt ceiling and the related fiscal policy debate indicate that
further near-term progress containing the growth in public spending, especially
on entitlements, or on reaching an agreement on raising revenues is less likely
than we previously assumed and will remain a contentious and fitful process. We
also believe that the fiscal consolidation plan that Congress and the
Administration agreed to this week falls short of the amount that we believe is
necessary to stabilize the general government debt burden by the middle of the
decade.
Our lowering of the
rating was prompted by our view on the rising public debt burden and our
perception of greater policymaking uncertainty, consistent with our criteria
(see "Sovereign Government Rating Methodology and
Assumptions ," June 30, 2011, especially Paragraphs 36-41).
Nevertheless, we view the
We have taken the ratings
off CreditWatch because the Aug. 2 passage of the Budget Control Act Amendment
of 2011 has removed any perceived immediate threat of payment default posed by
delays to raising the government's debt ceiling. In addition, we believe that
the act provides sufficient clarity to allow us to evaluate the likely course
of
The political brinksmanship of recent months highlights what we see as
the containment of which
we and most other independent observers regard as key to long-term fiscal
sustainability.
Our opinion is that
elected officials remain wary of tackling the structural issues required to
effectively address the rising U.S. public debt burden in a manner consistent
with a 'AAA' rating and with 'AAA' rated sovereign peers (see Sovereign Government Rating Methodology and
Assumptions," June 30, 2011, especially Paragraphs 36-41). In
our view, the difficulty in framing a consensus on fiscal policy weakens the
government's ability to manage public finances and diverts attention from the
debate over how to achieve more balanced and dynamic economic growth in an era
of fiscal stringency and private-sector deleveraging (ibid). A new political
consensus might (or might not) emerge after the 2012 elections, but we believe
that by then, the government debt burden will likely be higher, the needed
medium-term fiscal adjustment potentially greater, and the inflection point on
the U.S. population's demographics and other age-related spending drivers
closer at hand (see "Global Aging 2011: In The U.S., Going Gray Will Likely
Cost Even More Green, Now," June 21, 2011).
Standard & Poor's
takes no position on the mix of spending and revenue measures that Congress and
the Administration might conclude is appropriate for putting the
The act calls for as much
as $2.4 trillion of reductions in expenditure growth over the 10 years through
2021. These cuts will be implemented in two steps: the $917 billion agreed to
initially, followed by an additional $1.5 trillion that the newly formed
Congressional Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction is supposed to
recommend by November 2011. The act contains no measures to raise taxes or otherwise
enhance revenues, though the committee could recommend them.
The act further provides
that if Congress does not enact the committee's recommendations, cuts of $1.2
trillion will be implemented over the same time period. The reductions would
mainly affect outlays for civilian discretionary spending, defense, and
Medicare. We understand that this fall-back mechanism is designed to encourage
Congress to embrace a more balanced mix of expenditure savings, as the
committee might recommend.
We note that in a letter
to Congress on Aug. 1, 2011, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated
total budgetary savings under the act to be at least $2.1 trillion over the
next 10 years relative to its baseline assumptions. In updating our own fiscal
projections, with certain modifications outlined below, we have relied on the
CBO's latest "Alternate Fiscal Scenario" of June 2011, updated to
include the CBO assumptions contained in its Aug. 1 letter to Congress. In
general, the CBO's "Alternate Fiscal Scenario" assumes a continuation
of recent Congressional action overriding existing law.
We view the act's
measures as a step toward fiscal consolidation. However, this is within the
framework of a legislative mechanism that leaves open the details of what is
finally agreed to until the end of 2011, and Congress and the Administration
could modify any agreement in the future. Even assuming that at least $2.1
trillion of the spending reductions the act envisages are implemented, we
maintain our view that the
Compared with previous
projections, our revised base case scenario now assumes that the 2001 and 2003
tax cuts, due to expire by the end of 2012, remain in place. We have changed our
assumption on this because the majority of Republicans in Congress continue to
resist any measure that would raise revenues, a position we believe Congress
reinforced by passing the act. Key macroeconomic assumptions in the base case
scenario include trend real GDP growth of 3% and consumer price inflation near
2% annually over the decade.
Our revised upside
scenario--which, other things being equal, we view as consistent with the
outlook on the 'AA+' long-term rating being revised to stable--retains these
same macroeconomic assumptions. In addition, it incorporates $950 billion of
new revenues on the assumption that the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts for high earners
lapse from 2013 onwards, as the Administration is advocating. In this scenario,
we project that the net general government debt would rise from an estimated
74% of GDP by the end of 2011 to 77% in 2015 and to 78% by 2021.
Our revised downside
scenario--which, other things being equal, we view as being consistent with a
possible further downgrade to a 'AA' long-term rating--features less-favorable
macroeconomic assumptions, as outlined below and also assumes that the second
round of spending cuts (at least $1.2 trillion) that the act calls for does not
occur. This scenario also assumes somewhat higher nominal interest rates for
U.S. Treasuries. We still believe that the role of the U.S. dollar as the key
reserve currency confers a government funding advantage, one that could change
only slowly over time, and that Fed policy might lean toward continued loose
monetary policy at a time of fiscal tightening. Nonetheless, it is possible
that interest rates could rise if investors re-price relative risks. As a
result, our alternate scenario factors in a 50 basis point (bp)-75 bp rise in
10-year bond yields relative to the base and upside cases from 2013 onwards. In
this scenario, we project the net public debt burden would rise from 74% of GDP
in 2011 to 90% in 2015 and to 101% by 2021.
Our revised scenarios also
take into account the significant negative revisions to historical GDP data
that the Bureau of Economic Analysis announced on July 29. From our
perspective, the effect of these revisions underscores two related points when
evaluating the likely debt trajectory of the
When comparing the U.S.
to sovereigns with 'AAA' long-term ratings that we view as relevant
peers--Canada, France, Germany, and the U.K.--we also observe, based on our
base case scenarios for each, that the trajectory of the U.S.'s net public debt
is diverging from the others. Including the
Standard & Poor's
transfer T&C assessment of the
The outlook on the
long-term rating is negative. As our downside alternate fiscal scenario
illustrates, a higher public debt trajectory than we currently assume could
lead us to lower the long-term rating again. On the other hand, as our upside
scenario highlights, if the recommendations of the Congressional Joint Select
Committee on Deficit Reduction--independently or coupled with other
initiatives, such as the lapsing of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts for high
earners--lead to fiscal consolidation measures beyond the minimum mandated, and
we believe they are likely to slow the deterioration of the government's debt
dynamics, the long-term rating could stabilize at 'AA+'.
FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES
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Currency |
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Indian Rupees |
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US Dollar |
1 |
Rs.54.81 |
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1 |
Rs.86.04 |
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Euro |
1 |
Rs.69.06 |
INFORMATION DETAILS
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Report Prepared
by : |
PRL |
RATING EXPLANATIONS
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RATING |
STATUS |
PROPOSED CREDIT LINE |
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>86 |
Aaa |
Possesses an extremely sound financial base with the strongest
capability for timely payment of interest and principal sums |
Unlimited |
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71-85 |
Aa |
Possesses adequate working capital. No caution needed for credit
transaction. It has above average (strong) capability for payment of interest
and principal sums |
Large |
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56-70 |
A |
Financial & operational base are regarded healthy. General unfavourable
factors will not cause fatal effect. Satisfactory capability for payment of
interest and principal sums |
Fairly Large |
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41-55 |
Ba |
Overall operation is considered normal. Capable to meet normal
commitments. |
Satisfactory |
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26-40 |
B |
Capability to overcome financial difficulties seems comparatively
below average. |
Small |
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11-25 |
Ca |
Adverse factors are apparent. Repayment of interest and principal sums
in default or expected to be in default upon maturity |
Limited with full
security |
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<10 |
C |
Absolute credit risk exists. Caution needed to be exercised |
Credit not
recommended |
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NB |
New Business |
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This score serves as a reference to assess SC’s credit risk and
to set the amount of credit to be extended. It is calculated from a composite
of weighted scores obtained from each of the major sections of this report. The
assessed factors and their relative weights (as indicated through %) are as
follows:
Financial
condition (40%) Ownership
background (20%) Payment
record (10%)
Credit history
(10%) Market trend
(10%) Operational
size (10%)
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risk and responsibility on the part of MIRA INFORM PRIVATE LIMITED (MIPL)
or its officials.