Why has the US lost its AAA credit rating, and why does it matter? Loss of Moody’s highest rating comes amid concerns about Washington’s widening budget deficit and fiscal trajectory.

More than a decade later, in 2023, Fitch Ratings also downgraded the US rating. Fitch cited the country's fiscal deterioration, a high and growing general government debt burden, and notably, the ...

Moody’s Ratings downgraded the United States’ debt on Friday, stripping the country of its last perfect credit rating. The move could rattle financial markets and push up interest rates ...

US markets opened lower on Wednesday following the downgrade of long-term US credit by rating agency Fitch. The Dow was down 155 points, or 0.4%. The S&P 500 slid 0.8% and the Nasdaq Composite ...

June T-notes are under pressure today, and the 10-year T-note yield jumped to a 5-week high of 4.562% after Moody's Ratings late last Friday downgraded the US government's credit rating from Aaa ...

The US already lost its top credit rating from S&P in 2011 and from Fitch in 2023. With its downgrade on Friday, Moody’s finally caught up with its competitors.

Moody’s downgrades U.S. credit rating, citing rising debt and weak affordability. Fiscal deficits and mounting interest costs expected to worsen without policy changes. Up Next: Get 5 Dark Horse ...

U.S. futures fell after Moody’s Ratings downgraded the sovereign credit rating for the United States because of its failure to stem a rising tide of debt. Skip to content All Sections ...

As the United States stares at the risk of a credit downgrade, former Standard & Poor's officials stood firm behind their seminal 2011 call to slash the country's rating as the right decision.

The S&P 500 edged up by 0.1% after Moody’s Ratings became the last of the three major credit-rating agencies to say the U.S. federal government no longer deserves a top-tier “Aaa” rating.