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Moody's Ratings, previously known as Moody's Investors Service and often referred to as Moody's, is the bond credit rating business of Moody's Corporation, representing the company's traditional line of business and its historical name. Moody's Ratings provides international financial research on bonds issued by commercial and government entities.
A bond is considered investment grade or IG if its credit rating is BBB− or higher by Fitch Ratings or S&P, or Baa3 or higher by Moody's, the so-called "Big Three" credit rating agencies. Generally they are bonds that are judged by the rating agency as likely enough to meet payment obligations that banks are allowed to invest in them.
Map of Moody's sovereign long-term foreign credit ratings. Legend: Aaa Aa1 Aa2 Aa3 A1 A2 A3 Baa1 Baa2 Baa3 Ba1 Ba2 Ba3 B1 B2 B3 Caa1 Caa2 Caa3 Ca C. For Moody's, a bond is considered investment grade if its credit rating is Baa3 or higher.
Investment-grade bonds with a lower risk of default are rated BBB up to AAA on the Standard & Poor’s credit rating scale and other models. Junk bonds, or high-yield bonds, are rated below BBB ...
The Moody's rating system uses numbers and lowercase letters as well as uppercase. While Moody's, S&P and Fitch Ratings control approximately 95% of the credit ratings business, [14] they are not the only rating agencies. DBRS's long-term ratings scale is somewhat similar to Standard & Poor's and Fitch Ratings with the words high and low ...
Moody's Ref. Fitch Ratings; Rating Date Ref. Alabama: AA Aa1 [2] AA+ May 10, 2022 [3] Alaska: AA- Aa3 [2] [4] A+ April 13, 2022 [5] Arizona: AA Aa1 [2] — [6] Arkansas: AA Aa1 [2] — California: AA- Aa2 [2] AA March 1, 2022 [7] Colorado: AA Aa1 [2] — [8] Connecticut: A Aa3 [2] [9] AA- May 24, 2022 [10] Delaware: AAA Aaa [2] [11] AAA ...
The $116 billion commercial real estate lender put out a press release just before midnight ET on Tuesday following the Moody’s downgrade showing total deposits were up since the end of 2023 and ...
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.