The IFC received credit ratings of AAA from Standard & Poor's in 2010 and Aaa from Moody's Investors Service in 2011.

In January 2011, Moody's Investors Service downgraded to a " negative " outlook from " stable " some of the revenue bonds that the Chicago Department of Aviation had issued to help pay for the $ 15 billion O ' Hare Modernization Program and related capital-improvement projects.

* October 29 Lay asks Donald L. Evans, Secretary of Commerce, for help with an upcoming credit rating review by Moody's Investors Service.

In 2011, Moody's Investors Service, a bond rating agency, rated $ 57 million worth of new debt in 2010 with a positive outlook and echoed their Aa2 bond credit rating for the underlying institution.

For instance, losses on $ 340. 7 million worth of CDOs issued by Credit Suisse Group added up to about $ 125 million, despite being rated AAA or Aaa by Standard & Poor's, Moody's Investors Service and Fitch Group.

The bonds received ratings of " AA " and " A1 " from Standard & Poor's and Moody's Investors Service, respectively.

Under colonial rule, the HKMA did not place funds with local banks not rated by Moody's Investors Service or Standard & Poor's.

** 22 September: Moody's Investors Service has changed its outlook on Bank of Ireland from stable to negative.

As a result of his fiscal stewardship, Moody's Investors Service upgraded the city's bond rating.

He pioneered the rating of bonds and founded Moody's Investors Service.

In 2007, Moody's Corporation was split into two operating divisions, Moody's Investors Service, the rating agency, and Moody's Analytics, with all of its other products.

His father was John Moody, founder of the US credit rating agency Moody's Investors Service.

Moody's Corporation, often referred to as Moody's, is the holding company for Moody's Investors Service ( MIS ), a credit rating agency, and Moody's Analytics ( MA ), a provider of financial analysis software and services.

In 1962, Moody's Investors Service was bought by Dun & Bradstreet, a firm engaged in the related field of credit reporting, although they continued to operate largely as independent companies.

In December 1999, Dun & Bradstreet announced it would spin off Moody's Investors Service into a separate publicly traded company.

Moody's Investors Service is the bond credit rating business of Moody's Corporation, representing the company's traditional line of business and its historical name.

Moody's Investors Service rates debt securities in several market segments related to public and commercial securities in the bond market.

Moody's Investors Service's closest competitors are Standard & Poor's ( S & P ) and Fitch Group.

In North America, the five major agencies are Standard and Poor's, Moody's, Fitch Ratings, Dominion Bond Rating Service and A. M. Best.

The company is one of the Big Three credit-rating agencies, which also include Moody's Investor Service and Fitch Ratings.

The Big Three credit rating agencies are Standard & Poor's, Moody's Investor Service, and Fitch Ratings.

There's the United States and there's Moody's Bond Rating Service.

Moody's preaching and Sankey's musical gifts were significant ; their arrangements were the forerunners of gospel music, and churches all over the U. S. were eager to acquire them.

By March 2009, Porsche SE was aiming for its first ever credit ratings from U. S. rating agencies Standard & Poor's and Moody's.

According to Peter Robison and Christopher Donville of Bloomberg News, as reported in the Seattle Times ( April 17, 2009 ), " Weyerhaeuser is in a financial crisis so deep the largest U. S. lumber producer turns down the heat in its offices to save money ..." On September 28, 2009, Moody's reported Weyerhauser's proposed new notes rated at Ba1, a rating that puts them with junk bonds.

Fitch Ratings, dual-headquartered in New York and London, was one of the three Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations ( NRSRO ) designated by the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission in 1975, together with Moody's and Standard & Poor's.

Economist Mark Zandi of Moody's Analytics wrote that various factors had kept interest rates low globally in the years CDO volume grew, because of fears of deflation, the bursting of the dot-com bubble, a U. S. recession, and the U. S. trade deficit.

Moody's rates the U. S. companies " A2 " and the unsecured loan notes " A3 ".

In January 2010 Moody's followed with an upgrade of its rating perspective from " stable " to " positive.

Hungary's sovereign foreign currency debt issuance carries investment-grade ratings from all major credit-rating agencies, although recently the country was downgraded by Moody's, S & P and remains on negative outlook at Fitch.

Indonesia regained its investment grade rating from Fitch Rating in late 2011, and from Moody's Rating in early 2012, after losing its investment grade rating in December 1997 at the onset of the Asian financial crisis which Indonesia spent more than Rp450 trillion ($ 50 billion ) to bail out lenders from banks.

In Autumn 2011, Standard & Poor's and Moody's downgraded Italian sovereign debt rating because of " Italy's weakening economic growth prospects.

According to the American federal government statistics compiled by Mark Zandi, currently of " Moody's Economy. com ", back in 1985, the average inheritance was $ 39, 000.

Moody's ( in March 2000 ) and Fitch IBCA ( in January 2002 ) issued investment-grade ratings for Mexico's sovereign debt.

Tom Moody's leg-stump was dislodged when he shouldered arms to a delivery that pitched at least two feet outside the off-stump.

On 8 January 2010, International credit rating agency Moody's upgraded Turkey's rating with a notch.

Moody's cited concern to investors about the city's latest gambit to postpone repayment of interest and principal on some construction bonds until at least 2018, resulting in much larger payments over the long run.

Moody's proceeded to downgrade Ireland's government bond ratings to junk in mid-2011.

It has been benefited from steady economic growth and is now the second commercial and financial center of the city, housing international firms like Moody's, Citibank, Aon Corporation, Huawei, Millicom International Cellular, Nissan Motor Corporation represented by Taiyo Motors, Pan American Silver Corporation, a Sumitomo Corporation branch, Ernst & Young, and the " MegaCenter ", Bolivia's biggest shopping mall ( 52. 000 mts2 of construction ).

The credit risk of a high-yield bond refers to the probability and probable loss upon a credit event ( i. e., the obligor defaults on scheduled payments or files for bankruptcy, or the bond is restructured ), or a credit quality change is issued by a rating agency including Fitch, Moody's, or Standard & Poors.

* Moody's and S & P in the Ratings market

Bonds below Baa / BBB ( Moody's / S & P ) are considered junk-or high risk bonds.

Moody's S & P

Moody's and S & P each control about 40 percent of the market.

By contrast, most large and medium-sized CRAs ( including Moody's, S & P, Fitch, Japan Credit Ratings, R & I, A. M. Best and others ) today rely on an " issuer-pays " business model in which most of the CRA's revenue comes from fees paid by the issuers themselves.

The auditorium, used for Moody's religious conventions, and the school's original Romanesque Revival buildings will remain extant on the Northfield campus as part of C. S.

* 1997 – Alfa Bank draws US $ 40 million syndicated loan ; Euromoney declares Alfa Bank The Best Bank in Russia in 1997 ; first credit ratings received from Moody's and Standard & Poor's ( S & P ); Alfa Bank places the first issue of US $ 175 million, 3-year Eurobonds, becoming the first privately owned Russian bank to issue Eurobonds ; branches in Saint Petersburg and Samara open ; the value of total assets passes US $ 1 billion ;

* 2003 – unaudited financial statements reveal record high growth in profits in 2002 ( loan portfolio increased 70 % to US $ 1. 4 billion, assets surged 51 %, while net income rose by more than a third ); Alfa Bank, in partnership with the Lauder Institute of the Wharton School of Business, establishes a new award for Excellence in Foreign Investment, which would be presented to foreign companies operating in Russia for weighty contribution to the corporate governance and successful business operations ; Alfa Bank draws US $ 82 million unsecured syndicated loan, the biggest on record among private banks ; S & P, Fitch and Moody's upgrade Alfa Bank's rating during the year ;

* 2005 – Interbrand ranks Alfa Bank 9th strongest brand in Russia ; Mikhail Fridman becomes the member of the Public Chamber of Russia ; Alfa Bank issues US $ 225 million of subbordinated unsecured Eurobonds ; S & P, Fitch and Moody's upgrade Alfa Bank's rating during the year ;

* Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. has an issuer default rating of: bbb ( A. M. Best ), BBB-( S & P ), Ba1 ( Moody's ), BBB ( DBRS ).

* Crum & Forster Holdings Corp., Fairfax's subsidiary has an issuer default rating of: bbb ( A. M. Best ), BBB-( S & P ), Ba1 ( Moody's ).

* Odyssey Re Holdings Corp., Fairfax's subsidiary has an issuer default rating of: bbb ( A. M. Best ), BBB-( S & P ), Baa3 ( Moody's ).

Freddie's senior debt credit rating remains Aaa / AAA from each of the major ratings agencies Moody's, S & P, and Fitch.

Fitch Ratings is the smallest of the " big three " NRSROs, covering a more limited share of the market than S & P and Moody's, though it has grown with acquisitions and frequently positions itself as a " tie-breaker " when the other two agencies have ratings similar, but not equal, in scale.

While the credit rating of India was hit by its nuclear weapons tests in 1998, it has since been raised to investment level in 2003 by S & P and Moody's.