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Moody’s Lowers U.S. Credit Rating As Debt Nears $37 Trillion, Here’s Why
Decades of excessive spending by Congress has caused Moody's to lower America's credit rating. We'll look at federal revenue ...
Apple or America? The iPhone Maker Now Has a Better Credit Rating Than the U.S.
Moody’s still has a perfect Aaa rating on Apple’s bonds. Yields for long-term Apple debt are higher than the 10-Year Treasury ...
U.S. economy is experiencing ‘death by a thousand cuts’, says Deutsche Bank, as confidence in national debt management erodes
Deutsche Bank's Jim Reid says Moody's recent debt downgrade continues a drip of bad fiscal news for the American economic ...
These 3 stock-market sectors can defy the growing 'sell America' trade
The "sell America" trade that took shape after President Donald Trump's tariff chaos in April is likely to gather steam. For stock investors, sector allocation will be particularly important over the ...
Treasury Yields, Dollar Indicate 'Sell America' Trade Is Fading
Treasury yields fall and the dollar is little changed as Monday's "Sell America" trade recedes a bit. Concerns about the U.S.
The first U.S. credit downgrade triggered a ‘flight to quality.’ Will the latest cut from Moody’s do the same?
That legislation, which the Congressional Budget Office estimated will add $4.5 trillion to the deficit through 2034, proved ...
Trump’s tax cut faces a new snag: America’s debt crisis is back in the spotlight
After the United States lost its last perfect credit rating on Friday, Republicans and Democrats responded by pointing fingers at each other.
A short history of the long slide into federal fiscal insanity
Moody’s held in there the longest, but it had to acknowledge what the other financial ratings houses had said before: The ...
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America Loses Top Credit Rating
As of Friday, the United States is no longer a member of the elite club of top-tier debtors. Credit rating agency Moody’s has ...
Why corporate bonds may be 'fairly guarded' from Moody's downgrade of U.S. debt
Moody's announced on Friday after the close of the U.S. stock market that it lowered the credit rating of the U.S. to Aa1, from Aaa, because of the increase in its government debt and interest-payment ...
Not Even the Moody's Downgrade Can Make Republicans Take the National Debt Seriously
In a world where federal policymakers were treating America's national debt with the seriousness it deserves, Friday might ...
Jamie Dimon warns that investors are showing ‘extraordinary amount of complacency’
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon says the full effects of tariffs have yet to be felt and that markets are exhibiting an “extraordinary amount of complacency” in the face of those and other risks.