October 11, 2012 4:13 PM

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Chidambaram: No serious threat of downgrade of country's credit rating by S&P<br/>

Promising more reform initiatives in the next two years, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram has said tht there is no serious threat of downgrade of the country&apos;s credit rating by Standard and Poor&apos;s, S&amp;P. The Minister was addressing a press conference on the sidelines of the IMF-World Bank annual meetings in Tokyo. He said that there would be lot of action on the reforms front in the next 24 months, the timeline provided by the S&amp;P. The rating agency had in its report yesterday said that there was one-in-three likelihood of rating downgrade for India if the country&apos;s economic growth prospects dim, its external position deteriorates, its potential climate worsens, or fiscal reforms slow.

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