S&P Credit ratings in Europa per Land (Updated 1 September 2012)

Deze kaart van Europa toont de S&P credit rating van de meeste landen. De credit ratings zijn afkomstig van S&P per 1 september 2012.

This map shows Standard & Poor's Credit Rating for each country in Europe. Datasnapshot per 1-september 2012

Standard & Poor's (S&P) is a United States-based financial services company. It is a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies that publishes financial research and analysis on stocks and bonds. It is well known for the stock market indexes, the US-based S&P 500, the Australian S&P/ASX 200, the Canadian S&P/TSX, the Italian S&P/MIB and India's S&P CNX Nifty. It is one of the Big Three credit rating agencies (Standard & Poor's, Moody's Investor Service and Fitch Ratings).

Standard & Poor's Ratings:

• AAA: The best quality borrowers, reliable and stable
• AA: Quality borrowers, a bit higher risk than AAA
• A: Economic situation can affect finance
• BBB: Medium class borrowers, which are satisfactory at the moment
• BB: More prone to changes in the economy
• B: Financial situation varies noticeably
• CCC: An obligor rated currently vulnerable, and is dependent upon favorable business, financial, and economic conditions to meet its financial commitments