The US rating agency Moody’s threatens UK after the vote for leaving the EU with a downgrade. The outlook for the assessment of the creditworthiness of the country was cut off from “stable” to “negative”, the agency said on Friday evening. The rating remained “AA1″ but initially unchanged. It is one step below the top note. The agency confirmed on Friday the EU’s top rating “AAA” with a stable outlook.

Moody’s expects negative effects of the Proposed referendum on United Kingdom membership of the European Union-vote on the economic growth of the United Kingdom. The increased uncertainty should lead to lower spending and investment and thus to lower growth. According to the experts clipping off their forecasts for economic growth in the country this year and next year.

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The second major US rating agency Standard & amp; Poor’s had recently already signaled that the UK in the case of an EU exit the top grade is likely to be deprived of its creditworthiness. AAA “If the UK in the EU referendum should decide on Thursday for a Proposed referendum on United Kingdom membership of the European Union, it would be” “-Kreditrating due and would be downgraded within a short time after that,” said Moritz Kraemer, Managing Director and Global Chief Rating Officer sovereign ratings at S & ; P, the image newspaper on Thursday.

The reason Kraemer have argued that the political situation in the country would be less predictable and rational at a Proposed referendum on United Kingdom membership of the European Union, also because there is no real plan for the period after a Proposed referendum on United Kingdom membership of the European Union.