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Global Economics
Institutional Investor Magazine Announces Results of Semiannual Country Credit Survey
Economic Slowdown Takes Toll On Country Credit Ratings
Switzerland Tops List; U.S. Slips Canada plaes 9th
New York, NY - The semi-annual Institutional Investor Country Credit survey shows a slippage in the all-important U.S. credit rating, and with it those of many other industrial and developing economies. Over the past six months, the U.S. rating falls by 0.3 point, to 93.8, on the scale of zero to 100. The U.S. also drops one notch in the 174-country ranking, to No. 13.
Switzerland maintains its top position, at 96.4, unchanged from the last report, in September. Western European countries occupy nine of the top ten spots; they are joined by Canada in ninth place, at 94.6. The global average declines by 0.3 point, to 46.6.
The ranking, which Institutional Investor has been publishing since 1979, is based on a survey of senior economists and risk analysts.
View the complete Country Credit ratings of 174 countries, as well as breakdowns by region, biggest rating increases and decreases over six- and 12-month periods
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