Moody's Investors Service rates it Aaa with a negative outlook.
The maintenance of the Aaa with a negative outlook into 2014 is highly unlikely unless the method adopted to achieve debt stabilization involved a large, immediate fiscal shock with a resulting unstable economic situation.
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As of Thursday, a 5 year AAA corporate bond has an interest rate of 1.21% and a 5 year AAA muni bond has an interest rate of 0.93%.
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The U.S. has not been a AAA-rated nation in the absolute sense for a while.
Moody's were quick to slap ratings on the company just a notch below the bulletproof AAA rating held by only a handful of corporations.
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The Grand Velas is a AAA five diamond property with on-site restaurants garnering four-diamond status.
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Some people want a McDonald's world and others want a AAA Michelin star-rated restaurant.
The ratings agency cut its rating on the European Stability Mechanism to AA1 from AAA and maintained a negative outlook.
Heat up your holidays in Arizona with a discounted stay at the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess, a AAA Five Diamond resort.
The UK currently holds a AAA rating from all three agencies - the only country apart from Germany and Canada to do so.
Mr Riley warned that if this was to rise to 100%, "in our view that is not really consistent with the UK retaining a AAA rating".
Under these circumstances, a AAA rating is no longer warranted.
Because for there to be enough money for the deficit nations to borrow cheaply, there must be an AAA rating and a 30% cash-to-loan deposit, as I understand it.
Producing your favorite AAA game is a Herculean undertaking.
Essentially, this money machine used extreme diversity and interlinking of transactions plus the insurance (credit default swaps) to give the appearance of reducing risk such that there could be a AAA rating.
For Austria the loss of the AAA will be a bigger shock - although the financial woes of Hungary have conspicuously weakened the finances of Austrian banks that have big Hungarian loans.
The business of publishing road atlases and maps, previously dominated in North America by players like Rand McNally and AAA, was a data-scarcity-driven business (real-time position and road condition information was too expensive to collect and deliver to the point of use).
The government, which has long played on its AAA rating as a sign of its economic might, has been pursuing a harsh program of spending cuts and tax increases to reduce the budget deficit, which at 7.4 percent of annual economic output is more than twice the EU's 3 percent limit.
Pennsylvania returned a wedding ring to a man, using an expired AAA membership card attached to a key ring found with the wedding band.
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To return to Moody's for a second, it is difficult to see Germany retaining its AAA rating in the immediate aftermath of a eurozone breakup or in the transition phase to a United States of Europe - though it might well get the AAA back in both cases, in time.
Powering a car with electricity takes more than a few AAA cells, but it can be done.
And both will run for about six hours on a single AAA battery.
Earlier, Lib Dem chief secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander, told BBC News that losing the AAA rating was not a devastating blow.
As that debt bubble imploded, the government bailed out the financial sector, thus driving up AAA issuance and fueling a sovereign debt bubble.
Unusually they are powered by a single AAA battery, that you sneak into the slightly bulbous section in the middle of the band.
From January until the day the bonds were formally priced in August, the spread between the MMD AAA and the MMD A Electric Power tightened steadily from 90 bps to 69 bps.
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