For information about a country's sovereign debt, use Bloomberg (see access details).

• Enter SOVM for the sovereign debt monitor or DEBT for the sovereign debt function (covers fewer countries) and press <GO>.
• From an individual bond issue, enter HDS for holders.

Moodys.com includes ratings and assessment reports and sovereign debt ratings. Go to Ratings & Assessments->Sovereigns and Supranationals.

For sovereign debt ratings use:

• Blooomberg - Enter CSDR
• FitchConnect - Search for a country and select Sovereigns/Regions from the Entities options.
• Trading Economics - click on country name to retrieve historical ratings

For credit ratings for individual sovereign bonds, go to WRDS (see access details) and use these two databases:

• S&P Credit Ratings (click on Compustat - Capital IQ, then on Capital IQ)
• Mergent FISD