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Fitch Ratings; Rating Date Ref. Alabama: AA Aa1 [2] ... AAA Aaa [2] [11] AAA February 9, 2022 ... Ohio: AAA Aaa [2] [51] AAA August 30, 2023 [52]
Map of Moody's sovereign long-term foreign credit ratings. Legend: Aaa Aa1 Aa2 Aa3 A1 A2 A3 Baa1 Baa2 Baa3 Ba1 Ba2 Ba3 B1 B2 B3 Caa1 Caa2 Caa3 Ca C. For Moody's, a bond is considered investment grade if its credit rating is Baa3 or higher.
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 ...
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 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.
Fitch Ratings is one of the leading global credit rating agencies, alongside Moody’s and S&P Global Ratings. Founded in 1914, Fitch provides credit ratings, research and analysis to financial ...
The 2011 S&P downgrade was the first time the US federal government was given a rating below AAA. S&P had announced a negative outlook on the AAA rating in April 2011. The downgrade to AA+ occurred four days after the 112th United States Congress voted to raise the debt ceiling of the federal government by means of the Budget Control Act of 2011 on August 2, 2011.
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 ...