Fitch affirmed Orsted's Long-Term Issuer Default Rating (IDR) at 'BBB+'.

The world's largest offshore wind developer on Wednesday said it had halted plans for two U.S. wind farms and that related impairments had surged above $5 billion, sending its share price down 26% to a six-year low.

(Reporting by Rishabh Jaiswal in Bengaluru; Editing by Tomasz Janowski)