For most sovereigns, the two debt burden metrics and the two debt affordability metrics are equally weighted. But because the US is a reserve currency issuer, Moody’s tweaks the weights on its ...

Debt is simply the total amount of money the US government owes to its lenders, currently amounting to $36.2 trillion. This ...

Long-term US borrowing costs surged to their highest level since late 2023 on Monday, as a fresh downgrade of the country’s ...

The Hang Seng index is 1.2% higher and the Nikkei 225 up 0.3%, while the FTSE 100 index is seen about 0.4% higher after ...

Investors reacted Monday morning to the U.S.’s credit rating before stocks rebounded later. A better bet is to focus on what ...

That appeared to be the case at the open: equities fell, and Treasury yields rose fast. But things settled down just an hour later. The S&P 500 finished the day flat, and yields on benchmark 10-year ...

Gold fell as the haven-demand boost from Moody’s Ratings downgrade of the US faded, and attention turned back to the easing ...

After recovering from an initial jolt, U.S. stocks, bonds and the value of the U.S. dollar drifted through a quiet Monday following the latest reminder that the U.S government may be hurtling toward ...

The group of governments whose bonds get the highest ranking just got smaller, after the United States lost its last triple-A credit rating from Moody's. The agency on Friday downgraded the US rating ...

Trimmed Mean CPI, the RBA’s closely-watched inflation gauge, rose 0.7% on a quarter-over-quarter (QoQ) and 2.9% on an annual ...