08/08/11
Marketplace for August 8, 2011
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Marketplace for August 8, 2011
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How does the market nosedive affect your wallet?
Should the average investor join the stock market sell-off?
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U.S. credit downgrade: Apocalypse now out in the markets?
New York bureau chief Heidi Moore discusses what S&P's downgrade was really about and how we are going to get substantive economic help out of what's going on
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Asia and Europe react to U.S. debt downgrade
How Europe is dealing with the U.S. downgrade news, in light of its own debt problems, and the latest on China's reactions as the largest foreign holder of U.S. debt
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The Fed steps up
Now that partisan politics has rendered the government unable to function, only one player in Washington has the power to affect the economy: the Federal Reserve
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The downgrade: What political gap?
The economy isn't doing well, but S&P said Friday it was downgrading U.S. debt because of politics, that there's such a gap between the parties, it throws into serious doubt the government's ability to govern responsibly. But where's the gap?
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S&P: U.S. credit worthiness remains very strong
Standard & Poor's global head of sovereign ratings David Beers comments on the ratings agency's decision to downgrade U.S. debt from AAA
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