The Moody’s ratings agency downgraded U.S. creditworthiness on Friday from the triple-A category to double-A, as Republicans ...

Moodys recent downgrade of the U.S. sovereign credit rating from AAA to Aa1 has stirred a sharp response from Republicans in ...

The agency pointed to the failure of successive administrations and lawmakers to implement measures to curb rising deficits ...

Moody’s is the last of the three major rating agencies to lower the federal government's credit in 2011 and Fitch Ratings in ...

A credit rating from a major agency as mounting government debt led congressmembers said the action is a reminder that the ...