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Fitch Ratings Inc. is an American credit rating agency and is one of the " Big Three credit rating agencies ", [3] the other two being Moody's and Standard & Poor's. It is one of the three nationally recognized statistical rating organizations ( NRSRO) designated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in 1975.
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 ...
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 ...
Fitch has withdrawn all ratings for Libya because it does not have enough information to maintain coverage of the issuer. [373] Malawi. Mali. Mali was given a credit rating in 2004 as part of a UN development initiative,[374]but the rating was later withdrawn. [375] Marshall Islands. Mauritania.
Fitch downgraded its credit rating for the U.S. government, from AAA to AA+, two months after the debt-ceiling crisis was resolved. “In Fitch’s view, there has been a steady deterioration in ...
Fitch Ratings has downgraded the United States government's credit rating, citing rising debt at the federal, state, and local levels and a “steady deterioration in standards of governance ...
A credit rating agency (CRA, also called a ratings service) is a company that assigns credit ratings, which rate a debtor's ability to pay back debt by making timely principal and interest payments and the likelihood of default.
April 9, 2024 at 11:49 PM. BEIJING (Reuters) -Ratings agency Fitch revised its outlook on China's sovereign credit rating to negative on Tuesday, citing risks to public finances as the economy ...