United States federal government credit-rating downgrades

The Standard & Poor’s ratings services lowered its long- and short-term sovereign credit ratings for Greece to ‘CCC+/C’ from ‘B-/B’.
At the same time, S&P removed these ratings from CreditWatch, where it had placed them with negative implications late January 2015. The outlook was given as negative.

Ratings agencies Fitch and Standard & Poor?s on Tuesday warned on the long-term ratings of four Greek banks as uncertainty surrounds Greece getting financial support from the European Central Bank.

Fitch placed the long-term ratings of Alpha Bank, Eurobank, National and Piraeus on negative watch.

BELGRADE - The Standard & Poor's (S&P) credit rating agency has affirmed Serbia's BB- credit rating with negative outlook, the Public Debt Administration of the Ministry of Finance announced on Tuesday.

Fitch affirms Serbia's B+ credit rating

BELGRADE -- The Fitch Ratings credit rating agency has affirmed Serbia's B+ credit rating, the Public Debt Administration announced on Monday.

Serbia's credit outlook remained stable, the Public Debt Administration said on its website.

BELGRADE - The Fitch Ratings credit rating agency has affirmed Serbia's B+ credit rating, the Public Debt Administration announced on Monday.

Serbia's credit outlook remained stable, the Public Debt Administration said on its website.

In January last year, the agency downgraded Serbia's rating from BB - with negative outlook to B+ with stable outlook.

Standard and Poor's maintains its stable outlook on Bulgaria's sovereign credit rating and will publish a rating update on December 12, a senior S&P official has said.

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