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The credit rating is a financial indicator to potential investors of debt securities such as bonds.These are assigned by credit rating agencies such as Moody's, Standard & Poor's, and Fitch, which publish code designations (such as AAA, B, CC) to express their assessment of the risk quality of a bond.
This is a list of countries by credit rating, showing long-term foreign currency credit ratings for sovereign bonds as reported by the largest three major credit rating agencies: Standard & Poor's, Fitch, and Moody's.
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.
High-yield bonds are issued by entities with low credit ratings from bond rating agencies such as Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s and Fitch. Bonds with ratings below a certain threshold are ...
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.
North Carolina is one of only 13 states with a AAA rating from all three major national bond rating agencies. Moody’s Investors Service and Fitch Ratings are the other two of the big three.
While Moody acknowledged that the concept of bond ratings "was not entirely original" with him—he credited early bond rating efforts in Vienna and Berlin as inspiration—he was the first to publish them widely, in an accessible format. [10] [18] [20] Moody was also the first to charge subscription fees to investors. [19]
The major bond rating agencies — Fitch, Moody's and S&P bond — recently all gave the city and county governments AAA ratings for their financial health. The favorable ratings, which for Fitch ...