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A credit rating is an evaluation of the credit risk of a prospective debtor (an individual, a business, company or a government), predicting their ability to pay back the debt, and an implicit forecast of the likelihood of the debtor defaulting. [ 1] The credit rating represents an evaluation from a credit rating agency of the qualitative and ...
Fitch has withdrawn all ratings for Libya because it does not have enough information to maintain coverage of the issuer. [ 375] Malawi. Mali. Mali was given a credit rating in 2004 as part of a UN development initiative, [ 376] but the rating was later withdrawn. [ 377] Marshall Islands. Mauritania.
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.
Several credit rating agencies around the world have downgraded their credit ratings of the U.S. federal government, including Standard & Poor's (S&P) which reduced the country's rating from AAA (outstanding) to AA+ (excellent) on August 5, 2011. 2011. The 2011 S&P downgrade was the first time the US federal government was given a rating below AAA.
With a legacy of more than 100 years, the Better Business Bureau (BBB) is the go-to watchdog for evaluating businesses and charities. The nonprofit organization maintains a massive database of ...
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. Moody's assigns bond credit ratings of Aaa ...
S&P Global Ratings. S&P Global Ratings (previously Standard & Poor's and informally known as S&P) is an American credit rating agency (CRA) and a division of S&P Global that publishes financial research and analysis on stocks, bonds, and commodities. S&P is considered the largest of the Big Three credit-rating agencies, which also include Moody ...
Fitch Ratings Inc. is an American credit rating agency and is one of the "Big Three credit rating agencies", [3] the other two being Moody's and Standard & Poor's. It is one of the three nationally recognized statistical rating organizations ( NRSRO ) designated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in 1975.