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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.
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.
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.
In 1980, around five dozen publicly traded companies held the highest possible credit rating (AAA) from Standard & Poor's. Today, there are only two left.
Credit rating agencies such as S&P have been cited for contributing to the financial crisis of 2007–08. [20] Credit ratings of AAA (the highest rating available) were given to large portions of even the riskiest pools of loans in the collateralized debt obligation (CDO) market.
Rating Action: Moody's assigns Aaa rating to Microsoft's new notes; outlook stableGlobal Credit Research - 16 Feb 2021New York, February 16, 2021 -- Moody's Investors Service ("Moody's") today ...
In Moody's Ratings system, securities are assigned a rating from Aaa to C, with Aaa being the highest quality and C the lowest quality. Moody's was founded by John Moody in 1909, to produce manuals of statistics related to stocks and bonds and bond ratings.
France could lose its top AAA credit rating as Europe's debt crisis spreads, Bloomberg News reported. "If problems in the euro zone aren't solved quickly, then the conditions of refinancing will ...