The Moody’s announcement sent the yield on a 30-year Treasury bond to a high of 5.01% at one point on Monday. Bond yields ...

Moody's downgrade of the U.S. credit rating made it the third of the three major ratings agencies to downgrade U.S. credit ...

Moody's Ratings downgraded U.S. debt, becoming the last of the three major credit rating agencies to move in that direction.

Moody’s stock price has bounced back in the past few weeks, mirroring the performance of most companies in Wall Street. MCO, which counts Warren Buffett as an investor, jumped to a high of $488, its ...

Moody’s has downgraded the nation’s credit rating one notch to Aa1, leaving the U.S. without a top grade among any of the ...

Fitch Ratings downgraded US long-term debt from AAA to AA+, citing political gridlock over the debt ceiling and fiscal ...

Rating agencies provide valuable information to investors ... As you scan down the chart, credit quality decreases and risk increases. Debt rated below BBB- will pay a higher rate of interest ...

Moody’s has downgraded the US credit rating for the first time, citing rising debt and political dysfunction. Here’s what the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Moody’s Ratings stripped the U.S. government of its top credit rating Friday, citing successive governments ...

The major credit rating agencies exist to opine on the likelihood that a debtor (say, a country) will repay their creditors on time and in full. They are rated on a sliding scale. Whenever a ...

We find that Credit Rating Agencies (CRA)'s opinions have an impact in the cost of funding of sovereign issuers and consequently ratings are a concern for financial stability. While ratings produced ...

The Moody’s ratings agency downgraded U.S. creditworthiness Friday from the triple-A category to double-A, as Republicans ...