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Three Things – Downgrading the Weekend

Discipline Funds

1) Moody’s Downgrades US Government Debt. After the close on Friday Moody’s dropped a bombshell downgrade of US government debt from AAA to aa1. I still remember S&P downgrading the USA in 2011. A year later interest rates on US government debt were a full 1% lower. Let’s put some figures on this.

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Downgrades, Debt, and Durable Optimism

Advisor Perspectives

treasuries, as S&P had 14 years ago, in 2011. The government cannot technically default, as the Fed can always buy the bonds for any auction. After Friday’s close, Moody’s downgraded U.S. I criticized the downgrade then…and I do now.

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At The Money: Jeff Hirsch on Presidential Investing Cycles

The Big Picture

And in 2011, he was the author of the book, Superboom, Why the Dow Jones Will Hit 39,000 and How You Can Profit From It. It’s how the government manipulates the economy to stay in power. What can we expect when a new president takes over the White House? I’m Barry Ritholtz. Jeff Hirsch : I got to repeat what we just said.

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Transcript: Richard Bernstein, CEO / CIO of RBA

The Big Picture

And so I decided I wanted to be a labor economist and got myself a job with a prestigious economic consulting firm in their labor economics department doing all kinds of government related work, private sector, but government related work. Have we ever had more issues with government in the courts than ever before?

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Market Commentary: Stocks Pause on Geopolitical Risk, Fed

Carson Wealth

Back then we almost saw a bear market after the first US debt downgrade in August 2011, but what matters to us as investors is how things rebounded and continued to move higher. Somebody is already paying the tariffs because federal government revenue from import duties has surged. But ultimately, somebody will pay.

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Edelweiss Financial Services Limited announces ₹3,000 million Public Issue of Secured Redeemable Non-Convertible Debentures (NCDs)

Trade Brains

The name of Edelweiss Capital Limited was changed to ‘Edelweiss Financial Services Limited’ with effect from August 1, 2011. SEBI, RBI, Government authorities, etc., Edelweiss Capital Limited subsequently received a Category I Merchant Banker license from SEBI with effect from October 16, 2000. and EDEL.BO if it is required to do so.

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Ashish Kacholia stock jumps 4% after signing agreement with DTDC Express

Trade Brains

Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Hyderabad, it offers prepaid cards, employee expense management, rewards, and payment automation services through platforms like Zaggle Save, Zoyer, and Propel. Zaggle Prepaid Ocean Services Limited is a leading Indian fintech and SaaS company specializing in spend management solutions.