U.S. stocks opened lower Monday following a downgrade of Japan's debt rating and tepid sales figures of the Thanksgiving holiday.
The Moody's Investors service, a credit rating agency downgraded on Tuesday credit ratings for five largest banks in South Africa.
Canada welcomed the latest report by rating agency Moody's, which maintains Canada's AAA credit rating, a senior Canadian official said Monday.
"Fury" starring Brad Pitt usurped first place this weekend from the two-week box-office winner "Gone Girl."
The decision by Standard & Poor's to lower the Finnish credit rating on Friday has generated a heated debate among Finnish political parties on what Finland should do.
The decision by Standard & Poor's to lower the Finnish credit rating on Friday has generated a heated debate among Finnish political parties on what Finland should do.
Brazil's credit rating doesn't depend on who wins the presidential elections, but on the winner's ability to change the country's economic course, rating agency Moody's said Wednesday.
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet's approval rating dipped for the third month in a row to 47 percent in September, local newspapers reported Thursday.
Public satisfaction with Philippine President Benigno Aquino III fell to its lowest level since he took office in 2010, according to the results of a survey released by private research institute Social Weather Stations (SWS) on Monday.
Dagong Global Credit Rating Co., China's domestic rating agency, announced Wednesday that it has downgraded the rating outlook of Thailand from stable to negative mainly due to lasting political turmoil.
Due to the political brinkmanship and uncertainty caused by the lingering fiscal fight between Democrats and Republicans, the U.S. gold-plated sovereign credit rating might be downgraded by other credit rating agencies (CRAs), Jacob Kirkegaard, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Peterson Institute for International Economics, warned Tuesday.
The North American box office over the weekend was dominated by "The Butler", a biopic featuring what was happening at the White House throughout eight U.S. presidencies, as the film has drawn more enthusiastic moviegoers than expected, enabling it to outperform three other new wide releases.
Global rating agency Moody's Investors Service Thursday lifted its outlook on the U.S. government bond rating to stable from negative and reaffirmed the U.S. government's Aaa rating.
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, one of the world's largest credit rating agencies, revised U.S. outlook on the long-term rating to stable from negative on Monday, based on the strengths of the U.S. economy and monetary system.
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