Bond ratings indicate a bond's credit quality, helping investors assess default risk. The three major bond ratings agencies are Moody's, Standard & Poor's, and Fitch Ratings. Investment-grade ...

For African countries, this opacity can be especially damaging. When rating decisions lack transparency, it’s impossible to ...

Medium-sized rating agencies include A.M. Best Rating Services, DBRS Inc. and Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA). ... For 2021, based on the chart in the report, ...

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While Bear Stearns is the most recent financial institution to find itself caught up in the subprime-mortgage quagmire, the three credit-rating agencies - Standard & Poor's, Moody's, and Fitch ...

The African Credit Rating Agency, an initiative set up to provide an alternative to the so-called Big Three ratings agencies, will be launched by the end of September, according to the African ...

Rating agency Fitch recently warned that the rapid spread of the mpox virus in sub-Saharan Africa could add to the fiscal pressures many countries in the region are already experiencing.

The chart shows BBB spreads widen ... Moody's Corporation's stock price plunged 76% to a low of $17.95 per share in February 2009 after the company and other rating agencies were criticized ...

Credit rating agencies are once again in the spotlight amid the ongoing high-stakes debt ceiling negotiations in Washington. What are they, and how do they decide the US sovereign debt rating?

Credit ratings agencies provide independent assessments of the risk that this could happen. Depending on the rating, a bond can be classified as an investment-grade or speculative-grade investment.

F ifteen years ago, in August 2008, the world’s credit-rating agencies were in the midst of the worst period in their history. The global financial crisis was about to reach its zenith. It was ...

Standard & Poor's has offered the most sobering indictment yet of the sad state of our federal finances. Or did it? The backstory is that the rating agency called the White House to explain its ...