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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.
In finance and investing, Black Monday 2011 refers to August 8, 2011, when US and global stock markets crashed [1] following the Friday night credit rating downgrade by Standard and Poor's of the United States sovereign debt from AAA, or "risk free", to AA+. [2] It was the first time in history the United States was downgraded. [3]
(The Center Square) – A credit rating agency has dropped San Francisco's rating because of the city's deficit spending and economic outlook. S&P Global Ratings lowered its long-term rating and ...
(Reuters) - S&P Global Ratings on Tuesday downgraded chipmaker Intel Corp's credit rating to 'BBB' from 'BBB+', on slow business recovery and uncertainty following management changes. The ...
On the first trading day after the downgrade the S&P 500 plummeted by 6.5%. Markets experienced their most volatile week since the global financial meltdown in 2008, and it took another six months ...
On August 5, 2011, Standard & Poor's credit rating agency downgraded the long-term credit rating of the United States government for the first time in its history, from AAA to AA+. In contrast with previous ratings, the agency assumed in the base case scenario that the tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 would not expire at the end of 2012, citing ...
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.
(Reuters) -Global ratings agency S&P said on Tuesday it had placed Boeing's rating on CreditWatch negative as about 33,000 of the U.S. planemaker's workers remain on strike, halting production of ...