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SEC to check S&P’s math, security

Paddy Hirsch Aug 15, 2011

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]() The Securities and Exchange Commission is scrutinizing the method Standard & Poor’s used to cut the U.S.’s credit rating and whether the firm properly protected the confidential decision, Bloomberg reports.

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