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Lebanon Is Now Rated as Low as Venezuela After Moody’s Cut

  • Moody’s downgrades nation’s credit score to the lowest level
  • Lebanon has defaulted on debt amid a crippling crisis
Demonstrators set an upturned garbage can alight as part of a road block during an anti-government protest in Beirut on July 1.
Demonstrators set an upturned garbage can alight as part of a road block during an anti-government protest in Beirut on July 1.Photographer: Hasan Shaaban/Bloomberg

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Lebanon had its rating cut to the lowest grade by Moody’s Investors Service, which said that bond investors will likely suffer major losses on their holdings as the government struggles to secure aid to ease a crippling financial crisis.