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A. A−. BBB+. BBB. BBB- and below. Not rated. 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.
Credit rating. A credit rating is an evaluation of the credit risk of a prospective debtor (an individual, a business, company or a government), predicting their ability to pay back the debt, and an implicit forecast of the likelihood of the debtor defaulting. [1] The credit rating represents an evaluation from a credit rating agency of the ...
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. Moody's assigns bond credit ratings of Aaa ...
Fitch has withdrawn all ratings for Libya because it does not have enough information to maintain coverage of the issuer. [373] Malawi. Mali. Mali was given a credit rating in 2004 as part of a UN development initiative,[374]but the rating was later withdrawn. [375] Marshall Islands. Mauritania.
With a legacy of more than 100 years, the Better Business Bureau (BBB) is the go-to watchdog for evaluating businesses and charities. The nonprofit organization maintains a massive database of ...
In the midst of the very tense debt ceiling standoff of 2011, Standard and Poor’s downgraded US debt for the first time in history. That downgrade happened on a Friday afternoon, so investors ...
S&P Global Ratings (previously Standard & Poor's and informally known as S&P) is an American credit rating agency (CRA) and a division of S&P Global that publishes financial research and analysis on stocks, bonds, and commodities. S&P is considered the largest of the Big Three credit-rating agencies, which also include Moody's Investors Service ...
Fitch Ratings Inc. is an American credit rating agency and is one of the " Big Three credit rating agencies ", [3] the other two being Moody's and Standard & Poor's. It is one of the three nationally recognized statistical rating organizations ( NRSRO) designated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in 1975.