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For S&P, 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. An SD rating indicates that the country has selectively defaulted on some outstanding obligations [1] [2]
Credit rating is a highly concentrated industry with the "Big Three" credit rating agencies – Fitch Ratings, Moody's and Standard & Poor's (S&P) – controlling approximately 95% of the ratings business. [1] [2] Credit rating agencies registered as such with the SEC are "nationally recognized statistical rating organizations".
[14] [15] On January 13, 2012, S&P truly cut France's AAA rating, lowering it to AA+. This was the first time since 1975 that Europe's second-biggest economy, France, had been downgraded to AA+. The same day, S&P downgraded the rating of eight other European countries: Austria, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Malta, Slovenia, Slovakia and Cyprus. [16]
The chipmaking icon's revenue for the first nine months of this year, which was roughly flat year-on-year at $38.84 billion, was below the ratings agency's expectations, S&P Global said. The ...
The Standard & Poor's rating scale uses uppercase letters and pluses and minuses. [13] The Moody's rating system uses numbers and lowercase letters as well as uppercase. While Moody's, S&P and Fitch Ratings control approximately 95% of the credit ratings business, [14] they are not the only rating agencies. DBRS's long-term ratings scale is ...
Investment-grade bonds with a lower risk of default are rated BBB up to AAA on the Standard & Poor’s credit rating scale and other models. Junk bonds, or high-yield bonds, are rated below BBB ...
Standard & Poor's (S&P), the prominent credit rating company, announced on Thursday that it intends to maintain the United States' AAA credit status. This rating, S&P's highest level, is expected ...
Credit ratings for state debt from S&P Global as of May 2021: ... Historic S&P Global Rankings. State 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012