WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve stopped short of signaling any timetable Wednesday for slowing its bond buying. Instead, it dropped hints that it might need to maintain its $85 billion a month in bond purchases, which have helped keep long-term ...

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All three U.S. bond-rating agencies — Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s Investors and Fitch Ratings — have reaffirmed Maryland’s AAA bond rating in preparation for an upcoming sale of $435 million in general obligation bonds at the Board of Public Works meeting on July 24.

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Fitch Ratings, one of the three major bond-rating services in the U.S., has assigned an AAA rating — the highest available — to two sets of bonds that the state will sell via competitive sale on July 24. To be sold are $435 million in tax-exempt bonds and $40 million in taxable bonds.

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Fitch Ratings, a global credit rating agency, assigned 'AA+' credit bond rating to Maryland’s Community Development Administration on its $52.5 million housing revenue bonds, 2013 series B and C, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

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WASHINGTON — Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services upgraded its outlook Monday for the U.S. government’s long-term debt. S&P cited the government’s strengthened finances, a recovering U.S. economy and some easing of Washington’s political gridlock. The credit rating service raised its ...

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WASHINGTON — Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress Wednesday that the U.S. job market remains weak and that it is too soon for the Federal Reserve to slow its extraordinary stimulus programs. Reducing the Fed’s efforts to keep borrowing rates low ...

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WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve on Wednesday stood by its aggressive efforts to stimulate the economy and reduce unemployment. And it sent its most explicit signal to date that tax increases and spending cuts that kicked in this year are ...

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WASHINGTON — A majority of Federal Reserve policymakers want to continue extraordinary bond purchases to help boost the U.S. economy at least through the middle of the year, according to minutes from the Fed’s last meeting released Wednesday. But many ...

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BOSTON — The newfound confidence that investors showed at the start of the year held up through February. Stock mutual funds continued to attract cash, although at a slower pace than in January. Bond funds also drew new money, putting ...

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WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve policymakers expressed broad support last month for the Fed’s plan to buy bonds to support the U.S. economy. But they differed over how long to keep buying bonds to drive down long-term interest rates. Minutes of ...

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