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Map of S&P's sovereign long-term foreign credit ratings as of March 2024. Legend: ... Ratings Withdrawn 10 October 2022 [167]
S&P Global [1] Moody's Ref. Fitch Ratings; Rating Date Ref. Alabama: AA Aa1 [2] AA+ May 10, 2022 [3] Alaska: AA- Aa3 [2] [4] A+ April 13, 2022 [5] Arizona: AA Aa1 [2] — [6] Arkansas: AA Aa1 [2] — California: AA- Aa2 [2] AA March 1, 2022 [7] Colorado: AA Aa1 [2] — [8] Connecticut: A Aa3 [2] [9] AA- May 24, 2022 [10] Delaware: AAA Aaa [2 ...
[14] [15] On January 13, 2012, S&P truly cut France's AAA rating, lowering it to AA+. This was the first time since 1975 that Europe's second-biggest economy, France, had been downgraded to AA+. The same day, S&P downgraded the rating of eight other European countries: Austria, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Malta, Slovenia, Slovakia and Cyprus. [16]
In 2023, the Indian government's Chief Economic Advisor, V Anantha Nageswaran questioned India's sovereign credit rating of BBB- by S&P and Baaa3 by Moodys and called for a review of the big three's rating methods. [14] In January 2024, CareEdge Ratings issued its Sovereign Ratings Framework for public consultation. [15]
The 2011 S&P downgrade was the first time the US federal government was given a rating below AAA. S&P had announced a negative outlook on the AAA rating in April 2011. The downgrade to AA+ occurred four days after the 112th United States Congress voted to raise the debt ceiling of the federal government by means of the Budget Control Act of 2011 on August 2, 2011.
A sovereign credit rating is the credit rating of a sovereign entity, such as a national government. The sovereign credit rating indicates the risk level of the investing environment of a country and is used by investors when looking to invest in particular jurisdictions, and also takes into account political risk.
Credit rating is a highly concentrated industry with the "Big Three" credit rating agencies – Fitch Ratings, Moody's and Standard & Poor's (S&P) – controlling approximately 95% of the ratings business. [1] [2] Credit rating agencies registered as such with the SEC are "nationally recognized statistical rating organizations".
As of December 2012, S&P is the largest of the three, with 1.2 million outstanding ratings and 1,416 analysts and supervisors; [173] [175] Moody's has 1 million outstanding ratings and 1,252 analysts and supervisors; [173] [175] and Fitch is the smallest, with approximately 350,000 outstanding ratings, and is sometimes used as an alternative to ...