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Moody's Ratings

John Moody · 1909

Moody's Ratings is the credit ratings division of Moody's Corporation, rebranded from Moody's Investors Service in March 2024. It provides international financial research on bonds issued by commercial and government entities, operates as one of the Big Three credit rating agencies, uses a standardized ratings scale measuring expected investor loss in default, assigns ratings from Aaa (highest) to C (lowest), and was founded by John Moody in 1909 to produce manuals of statistics related to stocks, bonds, and bond ratings.