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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.
Moody's on Friday lowered its outlook on the U.S. credit rating to "negative" from "stable" citing large fiscal deficits and a decline in debt affordability, a move that drew immediate criticism ...
The credit rating agency Moody’s Investors Service lowered its outlook on the U.S. government's debt on Friday to “negative” from “stable,” citing the cost of rising interest rates and ...
This is a list of countries by credit rating, showing long-term foreign currency credit ratings for sovereign bonds as reported by the largest three major credit rating agencies: Standard & Poor's, Fitch, and Moody's.
In 2011, interest payments on all US debt totaled $425 billion. in 2022, interest payments hit $710 billion. In the first quarter of 2023, interest payments hit $929 billion on an annualized basis.
July 25, 2011: The bond market is shaken by a single $850 million futures trade betting on US default. July 29, 2011: The Budget Control Act of 2011 S. 627, [154] a Republican bill that immediately raised the debt ceiling by $900 billion and reduced spending by $917 billion, passed in the House on a vote of 218–210.
Moody’s on Monday evening downgraded 10 US banks and put the credit ratings of six others on ... Rising credit card debt and auto loan balances helped to drive overall household debt levels up 1 ...
Supply chain finance. v. t. e. 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. An agency may rate the creditworthiness of issuers of debt obligations, of debt ...