Trade negotiations, questions tied to monetary policy, and geopolitical events were some of the factors impacting the market.

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NEW YORK, NY – Moody’s has downgraded the U.S. sovereign credit rating, citing mounting concerns over the nation’s ballooning $36 trillion debt. The downgrade, announced on May 16, could complicate ...

Corporate credit rating is a problem of classifying high-dimensional feature vectors. Traditional corporate credit rating methods primarily rely on statistical models, machine learning models, or ...

AM Best has placed under review with negative implications the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of A (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings (Long-Term ICR) of “a+” (Excellent) of ...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has been scrutinizing Egan-Jones Ratings Co., according to people familiar with the matter, delving into the business practices of a leader in the ...

A private university in Boston has taken an unusual strategy in an attempt to right its stressed finances: cutting the number of undergraduate students. Simmons University, a women’s-focused ...

Private credit grades used by insurance companies tend to be concentrated among smaller ratings firms, raising the risk of “inflated assessments of creditworthiness,” the Bank for International ...

Illinois Comptroller Susana A. Mendoza, the state’s chief fiscal and accountability officer, welcomed Thursday’s announcement by Moody’s Ratings agency of the state’s 10th credit rating upgrade in ...

Teachers aren't the only ones who assign letter grades. In the insurance industry, AM Best, a global credit rating agency, rates the credit worthiness of 16,000 insurance in more than 100 countries ...

S&P Global Ratings raised India’s sovereign credit rating in mid-August from BBB- to BBB, one notch above its lowest investment-grade rating. The rating agency had moved India’s rating to a positive ...