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Global financial markets continue to drop sharply in reaction to an unprecedented downgrade of the U.S. government's credit rating and lingering concerns about European debt problems and global economic growth. In early Asia trading Tuesday, Japan's

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Rating Agency Downgrades US Credit Outlook

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The credit rating agency Standard Poor's has downgraded the U.S. credit rating for the first time ever from the country's elite AAA status to AA-plus, with a negative outlook. In a statement late Friday, SP said it made the move because the deficit-r

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S&P Cuts Italy's Credit Rating

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