Coeur Mining, Inc. -- Moody's downgrades Coeur's CFR to B3; outlook stable

Moody's Investors Service, ("Moody's") downgraded the Corporate Family Rating of Coeur Mining, Inc. (Coeur) to B3 from B1, the probability of default rating to B3-PD from B1-PD and senior unsecured notes to Caa1 from B1. Moody's also downgraded the Speculative Grade Liquidity rating to SGL-3 from SGL-2. "The downgrade reflects a meaningful deterioration in credit metrics and our expectations that metrics will remain weak in 2019 with improvement heavily contingent on operational execution over the next 12-18 months," said Botir Sharipov, Vice President and lead analyst for Coeur.