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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 ...
As I was researching an article on the recent bank credit rating downgrade, I began to wonder about how agencies such as Moody's (NYS: MCO) , Standard & Poor's, and Fitch treated banks right ...
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.
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.
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.
Here's a story sure to bring a smile to the face of every banker in the world who's ever faced a credit-rating downgrade from one of the big three ratings agencies. Financial Times is reporting ...
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.