The financial ratings firm lowered the U.S. credit rating from the gold-standard Aaa to Aa1. It said it expected federal ...

Moody's lowered its rating on U.S. debt from Aaa to Aa1, pointing to sustained increase in federal debt and interest payments ...

The downgrade, which places the U.S. government one notch below Moody’s top Aaa status, comes as lawmakers weigh a budget ...

Financial ratings firm Moody’s Ratings downgraded the U.S. government’s credit ratings Friday, citing its rising debt and ...

The downgrade from Moody’s means that each of the three major credit rating agencies no longer gives the United States its ...

Moody's had been a holdout in keeping U.S. sovereign debt at the highest credit rating possible, and brings the 116-year-old ...

Moody’s blamed the downgrade on more than a decade of increasing government debt and interest payment ratios, and the failure ...

Congress and past administrations have been unable to agree on how to curb the pattern of substantial yearly budget deficits and rising interest costs.

The U.S. was stripped of its last top credit rating by Moody’s Ratings, reflecting deepening concern that ballooning debt and ...

Moody's Ratings downgraded the U.S. credit rating by one notch, from a pristine Aaa to Aa1, citing persistent and rising ...

Moody's first gave the United States its pristine "Aaa" rating in 1919 and is the last of the three major credit agencies to ...

Moody’s is the last of the three major rating agencies to lower the federal government’s credit. Standard & Poor’s downgraded ...