Moody's on Monday, Jan 16, confirmed France's triple-A credit rating but said it was still reviewing whether it would maintain its "stable" outlook for the debt-laden country.
The announcement came three days after rival agency Standard and Poor's downgraded France's top rating by one notch.
Sarkozy made an appeal on Sunday for calm in the wake of the downgrade and said he would introduce more reforms to get France back on track.
Fitch, the third major ratings agency, has also kept France at its top level and said it has no plans to review it this year, AFP reports.
On Jan 13 Standard & Poor’s downgraded France and Austria – two of the currency zone’s six triple A rated countries – as well as seven nations not in that top tier, among them Italy and Spain.
S&P, under political fire since it announced a review or eurozone debt in December, gave 14 of 16 countries – including France, Italy and Spain – a negative outlook, which it said meant a one-in-three chance for each country of a further downgrade this year or next.
The agency cut Italy Spain and Portugal by two notches. Ireland held its rating.
