Fortescue is another step closer to winning an investment-grade credit rating after it announced another debt repayment. It has issued a notice of repayment on its USD$700 million 2019 senior secured credit facility with the repayment to be financed out of free cash flow. This latest repayment comes on top of USD$2.9 billion already repaid in the 2016 financial year. Westpac estimate Fortescue’s credit ratios as exceeding the thresholds specified...