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...the proposed ArtFi deal a pristine AAA credit rating....
...Fitch, Standard and Poor’s and Moody’s are the world’s three most prominent agencies engaged in rating wholesale debt. Moody’s still rates the US as AAA....
...And on the very same day, the credit rating agency Fitch stripped America of its hallowed AAA tag, echoing a similar 2011 move by Standard & Poor’s....
...Fitch did not adjust its “country ceiling”, which it affirmed at AAA....
...Fitch is the latest rating agency to strip the US of its triple A rating, downgrading it to a more humdrum AA+....
...Even the hysteria surrounding S&P’s infamous actual downgrade to AA in 2011 — for an example watch this interview with the rating agency’s David Beers — was quickly proven to be comically overdone....
...“Because Treasury securities are such an important asset class, most investment mandates and regulatory regimes refer to them specifically, rather than AAA-rated government debt.”...
...In “Global Aging 2023”, a sequel to 2016’s better-titled “Global Aging 2016: 58 Shades of Gray” (really), the rating agency has taken a broad look at what the oncoming proliferation of agèd flesh and crow...
...Why does the same company get an AAA score from one provider but a B from another?...
...down to C, similar to the scale used by the credit-rating agencies....
...Angela Merkel’s phone calls were monitored by the US National Security Agency, according to leaks by Edward Snowden — though German prosecutors dropped their investigation after failing to come up with hard...
...Fitch last downgraded the UK’s credit rating in 2013, from AAA. It then gave the UK a negative outlook in 2016, shortly after the EU referendum....
...Among those AAA-rated bonds, interest rates can vary by more than 3 percentage points, which Mr Jin said “clearly tells you the ratings do not really differentiate the risk involved”....
...Credit-ratings agencies assigned the debt ratings of two notches below AAA....
...How else to explain the lack of price reaction to such seismic events as the UK’s loss of its gold-plated AAA status or Portugal’s return to the investment grade club....
...Canada has sold $3bn worth of dollar-denominated bonds in what bankers working on the deal say is the tightest AAA-rated pricing over Treasuries in at least two years, reflecting investors’ strong appetite...
...This measure is based on the average rating for around 30 emerging market countries awarded by Fitch Ratings, Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s on a scale of 0-20 where 20 represents AAA, 11 is BBB-, the lowest...
...The other two major rating agencies — Fitch and Moody’s — have assigned the US their highest possible ratings....
...Standard & Poor’s, the agency that in 2011 stripped America of its pristine AAA rating, warned last week that a failure to raise the debt limit could be “more catastrophic” than the 2008 failure of Lehman...
...Alphabet was upgraded one notch to double-A plus by credit rating agency S&P Global on Wednesday, putting the owner of the Google search engine and Android operating system a single notch below the highest...
...Yes, we want robots capable of friendship and familial love, of this kind of bonding....
...Rating agencies tend to take a careful approach on politics, especially in the world’s large economies....
...Fitch has become the last of the big three credit rating agencies to strip Alaska of its prized triple A rating on Tuesday, as the 49th US state continues to grapple with the fallout from the collapse in...
...Fitch Ratings affirmed the United States’s perfect ‘AAA’ credit rating and stable outlook on Tuesday, although it cautioned on the country’s deteriorating debt and deficit outlook....
...He says the ETF uses AAA-rated bonds issued by three US government backed agencies that provide housing finance: Ginnie Mae, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac....
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