MADRID (Standard&Poor's) March 4, 2013--Standard&Poor's Ratings Services said today that its ratings on Spain (BBB-/Negative/A-3) and most of the country's autonomous regions are unaffected following the Spanish Ministry of Finance's announcement of deficit numbers for 2012 on Thursday. (Watch the related CreditMatters TV segments titled "Spanish Regions And The Challenge Of Fiscal Consolidation" and "Las Regiones Españolas Y El Reto De La Consolidación Fiscal," dated March 8, 2013.) The ministry said that, as a share of GDP, the general government deficit was 6.74% and the aggregate regional deficit was 1.73%, slightly above the government's respective targets of 6.3% and 1.50% of GDP. The general government deficit is in line with our estimate of 6.9% of GDP