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Moody’s warns US of credit rating fears

By Michael Mackenzie in New York and Gillian Tett in London
Published: February 3 2010

Moody’s Investors Service fired off a warning on Wednesday that the triple A sovereign
credit rating of the US would come under pressure unless economic growth was more
robust than expected or tougher actions were taken to tackle the country’s budget
deficit.

In a move that follows intensifying concern among investors over the US deficit, Moody’s
said the country faced a trajectory of debt growth that was “clearly continuously upward”.

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