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WASHINGTON: Global rating agency Standard and Poor's (S&P) made a hasty and wrong decision of stripping the US of its top-notch credit rating, a senior US Treasury official said.
S&P Friday removed for the first time the AAA long-term sovereign credit rating for the US and lowered it by one notch to AA-plus.
"Their analysis is poorly and hastily done. By moving so quickly, they made the wrong decision without the right information," the official told Xinhua over the phone Saturday.
The rating agency should pay more attention to the debt reduction efforts in Washington, the official said on condition of anonymity.
The official believed that the downgrade won't have a big impact on global financial markets as the other two global rating giants Fitch and Moody's retained their triple-A credit rating for the US.
Market investors know the ropes of the US debt reduction process and the just-signed bipartisan debt legislation, and "there is nothing new in S&P's downgrading report, except for their downgrade decision", said the official.
Obama Tuesday signed a bill that raises the nation's debt limit through 2013 and cuts the deficit by more than $2 trillion, but the deficit-cutting package fell far short of the $4 trillion cited by S&P to avoid a downgrade.
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