U.S. Credit Rating at Risk of Cut

Fitch Ratings warns the nation's AAA rating is under threat from the political standoff over the debt limit; DBRS Morningstar places the U.S. AAA rating under review "with negative implications"; and the cost of insuring U.S. sovereign debt with derivatives has risen.

By Ruth Carson | May 25, 2023 at 09:29 AM

Photo: Pedestrians walk near the New York Stock Exchange in New York on January 27, 2023. Photographer: John Taggart/Bloomberg

The tension around the U.S. debt-limit negotiations ratcheted up after Fitch Ratings warned the nation's AAA rating was under threat from a political standoff that's preventing a deal.

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