{"id":12930,"date":"2026-04-25T07:58:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T07:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/12930\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T07:58:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T07:58:18","slug":"belgium-bonds-lose-safe-haven-status-as-fiscal-risks-grow-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/12930\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium Bonds Lose Safe-Haven Status as Fiscal Risks Grow in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The traditional hierarchy of debt in Europe is facing its latest shake-up as worsening public finances in Belgium threaten to turn some of the region\u2019s once-safest bonds into a risky bet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Belgium is undergoing fresh scrutiny following Moody\u2019s Ratings <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-04-17\/belgium-gets-cut-by-moody-s-in-reproof-at-failure-to-cut-debt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">downgrade<\/a> last week, with S&amp;P Global Ratings set to review its sovereign rating later Friday. Strategists at Commerzbank AG and Societe Generale SA expect S&amp;P to also downgrade, while money managers at Candriam and Mediolanum say the situation shows why they prefer to own securities elsewhere in Europe such as Spain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The traditional hierarchy of debt in Europe is facing its latest shake-up as worsening public finances in Belgium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,8143,2914,69,115,8671,2820,328,84,8141,116],"class_list":["post-12930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-belgium","tag-bonds","tag-debt","tag-europe","tag-france","tag-government-bonds","tag-international-monetary-fund","tag-ireland","tag-markets","tag-moodys-corp","tag-spain"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116464288134277504","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}