March 22 (Reuters) - Moody's:
* Moody's: oil slump hurts states and provinces from Nigeria
to Russia, Mexico to Canada
* Report on analysis oil-dependent sub-sovereign borrowers
found Nigerian states most reliant on oil for revenue, Mexico
states least dependent
* Impact of oil slump on Russian states has been mitigated
by an accompanying decline in the value of the rouble versus the
us dollar
* Sustained fall in oil prices is hurting not only sovereign
borrowers worldwide, but also state governments
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