U.S. banks face a “serious risk†that their creditworthiness will deteriorate if Europe’s debt crisis deepens and spreads beyond the five most-troubled nations, Fitch Ratings said.
“Unless the euro zone debt crisis is resolved in a timely and orderly manner, the broad credit outlook for the U.S. banking industry could worsen,†the New York-based rating company said yesterday in a statement. Even as U.S. banks have “manageable†exposure to stressed European markets, “further contagion poses a serious risk,†Fitch said, without explaining what it meant by contagion.
Source: Bloomberg
