S&P will not cut Dutch, German rating: senior source

BERLIN (Reuters) - Rating agency Standard & Poor's will not cut the Netherlands and of Germany when it downgrades several euro zone countries on Friday, a senior euro zone government source said.

Earlier, the source said S&P was set to downgrade several euro zone countries, not including Germany, on Friday as it had warned in December.

(Reporting by Matthias Sobolewski, Annika Breidthardt)