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Fitch cuts Jamaica rating to restricted default on debt exchange

Reuters: Financials

Fri, 22 Feb 2013

NEW YORK, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Fitch Ratings on Friday cut Jamaica's sovereign foreign currency credit rating to restricted default from C, citing the Caribbean nation's domestic debt exchange which violates terms of its original bond contract with domestic bondholders.

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