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In August 2011, S&P downgraded the long-held triple-A rating of US securities. [1] On August 1, 2023, Fitch downgraded its credit-rating of United States Treasuries from AAA to AA+, as S&P had twelve years earlier, leaving only Moody's to still assign its highest rating to the country's debt.
This is a list of U.S. states by credit rating, showing credit ratings for sovereign bonds as reported by the three major credit rating agencies: Standard & Poor's, Fitch and Moody's. The list is given as of May 2021.
Fitch Ratings is a subsidiary of Fitch Group, a holding company wholly owned by Hearst Communications. [13] Fitch Group also operates Fitch Solutions, a distribution channel for Fitch Ratings products and a provider of credit market data and financial analytics. [14] Fitch Group employs approximately 5,000 people, including over 1,600 analysts ...
Other rating services did not lower their AAA ratings of US debt in 2011. But Moody’s and Fitch did change the US outlook from stable to negative that year, indicating a higher chance of a ...
Moody’s has put the credit ratings of six large US banks, including Bank of New York Mellon, State Street and Northern Trust, under review for a possible downgrade, sending stocks tumbling as ...
Name. 1-Star Reviews Nationwide. Total Assets. Bank of America. 2,256. $3.2 trillion. Assessment. Credit One Bank. 2,168. $878 million. Assessment. Wells Fargo. 2,019
For Fitch, a bond is considered investment grade if its credit rating is BBB− or higher. Bonds rated BB+ and below are considered to be speculative grade, sometimes also referred to as "junk" bonds. [104] Fitch Ratings typically does not assign outlooks to sovereign ratings below B− (CCC and lower) or modifiers.
source: Final Report of the National Commission on the Causes of the Financial and Economic Crisis in the United States, p.229, figure 11.4 Credit rating agencies came under scrutiny following the mortgage crisis for giving investment-grade, "money safe" ratings to securitized mortgages (in the form of securities known as mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and collateralized debt obligations ...