Scope Ratings Warns US Debt Path Is Unsustainable, Keeps Rating at AA

US Debt Path Leaves It ‘Increasingly Exposed,’ Scope Warns

America’s “exceptionally large” budget deficits and inexorably rising debt risks making it increasingly vulnerable to fickle investors, Scope Ratings warned.

U.S. debt is increasingly at the mercy of the market as interest costs surge while elections add more risk to the debt ceiling, ratings agency warns

"This trajectory points to an unsustainable medium-term fiscal path and leaves the sovereign increasingly exposed to shifts in market sentiment and financing conditions."

A failed, incapable, vulnerable America: Scope Ratings exposes Washington’s unsustainable debt path

TEHRAN- The United States is being portrayed not as an exceptional economic power, but as an increasingly incapable and inefficient fiscal manager, dangerously exposed to the whims of investors and unable to control its own borrowing. According to Bloomberg, citing Scope Ratings, America’s “exceptionally large” budget deficits and inexorably rising debt have left it “increasingly exposed” to shifts in market sentiment.

US debt is increasingly at the mercy of the market as interest costs surge as debt ceiling looms

The recent jump in Treasury yields has highlighted how vulnerable the U.S. debt outlook is to the bond market, which Scope Ratings flagged in a new report. On Friday, the Europe-based credit ratings agency maintained the U.S. sovereign score at AA-, three notches below the top rating and two steps below AA+ grades from rivals […]