...S&P Global Ratings publishes its Sovereign Ratings Score Snapshot every month. Our analysis of sovereign creditworthiness rests on our scoring of five key rating factors: (i) institutional assessment; (ii) economic assessment; (iii) external assessment; (iv) the average of fiscal flexibility and performance, and debt burden; and (v) monetary assessment. Each of the factors is assessed on a continuum spanning from 1 (strongest) to 6 (weakest). S&P Global Ratings' "Sovereign Rating Methodology," published Dec. 18, 2017, details how we derive and combine the scores, and then derive the sovereign foreign currency rating. Under S&P Global Ratings' sovereign rating methodology, a change in score does not in all cases lead to a change in the rating, nor is a change in the rating necessarily predicated on changes in one or more of the scores. In determining the final rating, the committee can make use of the flexibility afforded by paragraphs 15 and 126-128 of the rating methodology, and this flexibility...
