The Latest Breaking News from Moody

Moody’s Corp has underperformed the Dow Jones index over the past year. However, Wall Street analysts remain moderately optimistic about its prospects.

An increasing number of company executives and economists have recently pointed to a widening gap in the economy, where the wealthy drive most economic activity and low-income Americans continue to struggle financially.

A recent positive outlook from Moody's signals that Vistra Corp is nearing investment-grade status as it secures long-term contracts for AI data centers.

A leading agency has downgraded a state's credit rating, with an economist saying the move was a vote of no-confidence in a recent budget.

The decision by the rating agency Moody’s to downgrade Senegal’s sovereign credit rating in late October 2025 triggered an immediate week-long sell-off in Senegal’s Eurobonds. This was the third downgrade in one year. It left the country’s 16-year bond trading at a 40% discount to its face value. Meaning, for…

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Announcement by first minister John Swinney comes after Moody’s and S&P give country same credit rating as UK

The bonds will be designed to fund infrastructure programmes.

It comes after the Scottish Government was given the same high credit rating as the UK by two global agencies.

Moody’s rated the Scottish Government as Aa3 while S&P Global rated it as AA.

On paper, the economy is growing and unemployment is low. But federal government policymakers are behaving like there is an imminent crisis.