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  2. Moody's downgrades US banks, warns of possible cuts to others

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    Moody's cut the ratings of 10 banks by one notch and placed six banking giants, including Bank of New York Mellon, US Bancorp, State Street and Truist Financial on review for potential downgrades.

  3. Credit rating agencies and the subprime crisis - Wikipedia

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    e. Credit rating agencies and the subprime crisis is the impact of credit rating agencies (CRAs) in the American subprime mortgage crisis of 2007–2008 that led to the Financial crisis of 2007–2008 . Credit rating agencies, firms which rate debt instruments / securities according to the debtor's ability to pay lenders back, played a ...

  4. Moody's Ratings - Wikipedia

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    Moody's Ratings, previously known as Moody's Investors Service, often referred to as Moody's, is the bond credit rating business of Moody's Corporation, representing the company's traditional line of business and its historical name. Moody's Ratings provides international financial research on bonds issued by commercial and government entities.

  5. Big Three (credit rating agencies) - Wikipedia

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    The Big Three credit rating agencies are S&P Global Ratings (S&P), Moody's, and Fitch Group. S&P and Moody's are based in the US, while Fitch is dual-headquartered in New York City and London, and is controlled by Hearst. As of 2013 they hold a collective global market share of "roughly 95 percent" [1] with Moody's and Standard & Poor's having ...

  6. Can We Really Trust the Credit Ratings Agencies? - AOL

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    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 ...

  7. Credit rating - Wikipedia

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    Credit rating. A credit rating is an evaluation of the credit risk of a prospective debtor (an individual, a business, company or a government), predicting their ability to pay back the debt, and an implicit forecast of the likelihood of the debtor defaulting. [1] The credit rating represents an evaluation from a credit rating agency of the ...

  8. List of U.S. states by credit rating - Wikipedia

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    A. A−. BBB+. BBB. BBB- and below. Not rated. This is a list of U.S. states by credit rating, showing credit ratings for sovereign bonds as reported by the three major credit rating agencies: Standard & Poor's, Fitch and Moody's. The list is given as of May 2021.

  9. Bond credit rating - Wikipedia

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    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. Moody's assigns bond credit ratings of Aaa ...