A bond rating is an assessment of the creditworthiness of the bond's issuer. It is a prediction of the likelihood that a company, a government, or another entity will default on its debt obligation.

Bond ratings indicate a bond's credit quality, helping investors assess ... while Moody's uses a slightly different scale, but its Aaa, Aa, A, Baa, Ba, B, Caa, Ca, and C ratings have roughly ...

Moody's downgrade of the U.S. credit rating made it the third of the three major ratings agencies to downgrade U.S. credit since 2011 amid widening budget deficits.

Longer-dated bond yields rose after Moody’s took away the U.S. government’s last perfect credit rating—a largely symbolic move that shone a harsher spotlight on the country’s chronic and growing ...

A second bond-rating agency has reaffirmed its highest credit rating for Maryland, helping offset a downgrade by a third ...

In a separate interview on Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria” on Monday, Hassett called U.S. debt “the safest bet on Earth,” but similarly said that the new rating is “backward looking” and ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Moody's downgrade of the U.S. sovereign credit rating late Friday appeared to have a modest impact on corporate bond market activity on Monday ... "This one-notch downgrade on ...

Years of rising deficits and budget chaos finally caught up with the U.S. credit rating Friday when Moody’s Investor Service downgraded the government, stripping its last triple-A rating.

Bonds serve as vital financing instruments for both public and private sectors. With such significant values at stake, investment decision tools become crucial, particularly Credit Ratings issued ...