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Rating Action: Moody's affirms SMBC Nikko's ratings; outlook stableGlobal Credit Research - 08 Mar 2022Tokyo, March 08, 2022 -- Moody's Japan K.K. has affirmed SMBC Nikko Securities Inc.'s A1 and ...
Rating Action: Moody's assigns definitive ratings to SMBC 45th RMBSGlobal Credit Research - 19 Mar 2021JPY46.8 billion of Debt Securities RatedTokyo, March 19, 2021 -- Moody's SF Japan K.K. has ...
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.
S&P downgraded its U.S. credit rating for the first time in history during the 2011 debt ceiling crisis, which prompted the passage of the Budget Control Act of 2011 to cut spending and identify ...
source: Final Report of the National Commission on the Causes of the Financial and Economic Crisis in the United States, p.229, figure 11.4 Credit rating agencies came under scrutiny following the mortgage crisis for giving investment-grade, "money safe" ratings to securitized mortgages (in the form of securities known as mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and collateralized debt obligations ...
A sovereign credit rating is the credit rating of a sovereign entity, such as a national government. The sovereign credit rating indicates the risk level of the investing environment of a country and is used by investors when looking to invest in particular jurisdictions, and also takes into account political risk.
The Dow plunged more than 500 points in afternoon trading after Standard and Poor's downgraded the U.S. credit rating. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) (Mario Tama via Getty Images)
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. [103] Fitch Ratings typically does not assign outlooks to sovereign ratings below B− (CCC and lower) or modifiers.