US Credit Rating News

A CDS is a form of insurance that covers defaults. Swap rates increasingly determine the capital costs of companies by offering a market view of risks—an assessment that includes agency ratings but goes well beyond that.

While the impact of the downgrade on bond markets aren’t clear yet, investors may not yet have to worry about major near-term impacts to U.S. equities or Treasury yields, money managers told Barron’s.

An unanticipated side-effect of Donald Trump’s election victory

While the onus of reducing India’s fiscal deficit and relieving us of our heavy sovereign debt burden is on the government, the country’s impressively growing PPP-adjusted GDP per capita gets overlooked by rating agencies—although it’s relevant to our credit-worthiness.

While the onus of reducing India’s fiscal deficit and relieving us of our heavy sovereign debt burden is on the government, the country’s impressively growing PPP-adjusted GDP per capita gets overlooked by rating agencies—although it’s relevant to our credit-worthiness.