WASHINGTON — Moody’s Investors Service has downgraded Howard University’s credit rating, citing revenue declines at the historically black college and automatic federal budget cuts from Congress. Moody’s issued its downgrade Tuesday after a review that began in July. Howard’s rating ...

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NEW YORK — Moody’s Investors Service said Monday it may cut its rating on Penn State’s credit as the university deals with the fallout from the Jerry Sandusky child sexual-abuse case and sanctions against the school’s football team. The agency ...

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NEW YORK — Fitch Ratings has downgraded its assessment of America’s biggest bank, JPMorgan Chase & Co. The rating agency’s move comes a day after JPMorgan disclosed a surprise $2 billion trading loss in a portfolio designed to hedge against ...

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You get a lot of information from the Internet, but not necessarily a lot of knowledge. And over the past month or so, we have been bombarded with a multitude of negative headlines: the U.S. credit rating is downgraded, second-quarter ...

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NEW YORK — A warning from Standard & Poor’s that mounting debts put the U.S. government’s credit rating at risk blindsided markets last Monday. The Dow Jones industrial average lost more than 240 points in the morning before recovering. It ...

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