And for some bizarre, unexplained reason, Tim Geithner is still the U.S. Treasury Secretary. Credit rating downgrade hits markets U.S. stocks tumbled, following the biggest weekly drop in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index since 2008, amid concern that a downgrade of the nation’s credit rating by S&P may worsen an economic slowdown. … The [...]
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