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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.
For Fitch, 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. [104] Fitch Ratings typically does not assign outlooks to sovereign ratings below B− (CCC and lower) or modifiers.
The Fitch rating scale is used to assess the creditworthiness of governments, financial institutions and corporations. ... a critical factor for investors looking to buy bonds. The rating process ...
Fitch Ratings Inc. is an American credit rating agency. ... in scale. [10] In September 2011, Fitch Group announced the sale of Algorithmics ... Kroll Bond Rating Agency;
Fitch downgraded its credit rating for the U.S. government, from AAA to AA+, two months after the debt-ceiling crisis was resolved. Fitch downgrades U.S. credit rating from top score after debt ...
In essence, bond rating agency Fitch cited too much spending, not enough revenue generation and too much political fighting.
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 2011, the ratings agency Standard & Poor’s stripped the U.S. of its prize AAA rating after a prolonged fight over the government's borrowing limit. The Government Accountability Office, in a ...