Ratings Agency Downgrades Birmingham’s Credit Rating

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It’s the kind of story that mostly finance types or municipal bond investors pay attention to, but the ratings agency Fitch has downgraded the City of Birmingham’s credit rating. It also lowered the city’s outlook from stable to negative. We talk about what factored into the report in this week’s Magic City Marketplace.

 

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