It is easy to confuse credit bureaus and credit rating agencies, especially since credit bureaus are sometimes called "credit reporting agencies." The basic difference is whose creditworthiness ...

Insurers and other investors use the types of ratings in question, known as private letter ratings, when no public ratings are available. Larger ratings firms historically have eschewed issuing these ...

The dip in the U.S. credit rating indicates that ratings agencies believe the government is at a higher risk of default on ...

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

Moody's is sounding the alarm on the U.S. fiscal picture again. The agency already downgraded America's top credit rating, along with Fitch, following a debt ceiling battle on Capitol Hill in 2023 ...

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

Moody’s Investors Service downgraded the U.S. sovereign credit rating from Aaa to Aa1, marking the first time all three major ...

“The credit rating downgrade of CNG and SCG from a second agency sends an unmistakable message: the state’s regulatory policies are fundamentally broken,” Connecticut House Republican Leader ...