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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.
From 2000 to 2007, Moody's rated nearly 45,000 mortgage-related securities [14] —more than half of those it rated—as triple-A. In contrast only six (private sector) companies in the United States were given that top rating. [15] By December 2008, there were over $11 trillion structured finance securities outstanding in the US bond market ...
This month's deepening bond sell-off also comes as a reaction to hawkish signals from the Federal Reserve. Though the central bank cut interest rates last week, it indicated diminished chances of ...
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.
In commodities, bonds, and crypto: West Texas Intermediate crude oil dipped 1% to $71.03 a barrel. Brent crude , the international benchmark, was lower by 1.01% to $75.27 a barrel.
The benchmark 10-year Treasury rate rose by as much as 18 basis points the day after the election, pushing the overall rate on the bond to 4.47 percent. The price of bonds and their yield move ...
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.
The United States risks a bond market crisis of the kind that engulfed the United Kingdom 18 months ago, sending yields soaring and sparking a run on the pound, according to Congress’s ...