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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.
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.
The first warning on bond ratings came last week when Moody’s Investors Service downgraded 10 mid-sized institutions by a single notch, warned about a review of six additional lenders and ...
To determine a bond's rating, a credit rating agency analyzes the accounts of the issuer and the legal agreements attached to the bond [72] [73] to produce what is effectively a forecast of the bond's chance of default, expected loss, or a similar metric. [72] The metrics vary somewhat between the agencies.
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.
The "issuer pays" business model adopted in the 1970s by Moody's and other rating agencies has been criticized for creating a possible conflict of interest, supposing that rating agencies may artificially boost the rating of a given security in order to please the issuer. [8]