Tech Faces Big Risk From Slow Recovery, US-China Trade War, Says S&P Report
A slow economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic could combine with rising U.S.-China trade tensions to pose a big risk to U.S. investment-grade tech companies, S&P Global Ratings reported Wednesday. “Unprecedented measures from the U.S. government and Federal Reserve will…
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be sure to mitigate the effects of the sharp decline in economic activity due to COVID-19,” said the debt ratings firm. “But the path to recovery remains uncertain both in terms of timing and trajectory.” Until there’s an effective COVID-19 treatment or vaccine, “significant uncertainties surround the resolution of the pandemic and its effects,” said S&P. The “near-term risk” to the semiconductor industry would be “manageable” amid heightened U.S.-China trade friction, said the report. But it “adds incremental pressure on an industry that we already forecast will shrink by 7% in 2020.”