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Electronic Arts (top) and Ubisoft (bottom) are examples of AAA companies in the video game industry. In the video game industry , AAA (Triple-A) is a buzzword used to classify video games produced or distributed by a mid-sized or major publisher , which typically have higher development and marketing budgets than other tiers of games. [ 1 ]
AAA AA+ AA AA− A+ A A− BBB+ BBB BBB− BB+ BB BB− B+ B B− CCC+ CCC CCC− RD. 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. [104]
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.
Standard & Poor's implemented a sweeping overhaul of its rating criteria on Tuesday that resulted in a downgrade on 15 big banking companies, including the world's last AAA-rated bank.
From 2000 to 2007, Moody's rated nearly 45,000 mortgage-related securities [14] —more than half of those it rated—as triple-A. In contrast only six (private sector) companies in the United States were given that top rating. [15] By December 2008, there were over $11 trillion structured finance securities outstanding in the US bond market ...
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.
Uber-investor Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) is in danger of losing its credit rating from Standard & Poor's, the credit rating firm said Tuesday, citing concerns that losses on ...
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.