Doublea Plus News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

The possibility that the u.s. could be downgraded by one of these credit agencies. >> i think confidence has already eroded some. >> it has. >> and we have seen evidence from around the world, including a key credit agency fitch that issued a stern, stern warning. >> right. we got a taste of this in august 2011 we got close to the debt ceiling deadline then. s&p, standard & poor's downgraded it from triple a to a double a plus. that's what fitch is basically saying get your act together. fitch still lists u.s. as aaa, the highest possible quality of credit. but we should all be concerned that ...

Thanks for that most american of blessings, the chance to determine our own destiny. the problems we face didn't develop overnight and we won't solve them overnight but we will solve them. >> this on the heels of the congressional super committee failing to reach a deal on cutting the deficit. moody's is now warning congress that the u.s. government's top credit rating could take a hit if they don't come through with $1.2 trillion in cuts over the next decade. right now they have us at triple a with a negative outlook. in august, standard & poor's downgraded the u.s. treasury securities from t...

Has concerns. many analysts believe the super committee's failure to make a deal would trigger at least one of the rating agencies to take our debt from double a plus to double a. remember the impact of the first and only other downgrade last summer? stocks sank around the world. we saw the largest one-day sell off since the credit crisis in 2008. the dow down 600 points in one day. consumer confidence also sharply declined. you would expect that a lower credit rating would send interest rates sky high. it didn't. the fed's buying binge in a time of economic certainty sent rates way down. and ...

Optimal decision. we have, for example, if we have $600 in bills to pay. we worked out with our buddies and our friends and let's get $400 and pay this down. we still have $200 left on the table. then the credit rating is like, you didn't pay your bills. get your act together. you are not a credit worthy borrower. and we will rate you as such. >> bill probably would have taken the dwos00. >> in a new york minute. or in a plume of smoke. >> let me ask you this then, what is the difference between like a triple a and a double a plus. in my world double a plus sounds really good. >> yeah, but you...

The single deaiest day for american troops since the war started nearly ten years ago. the military is still investigating the cause of the crash but the taliban were quick to claim responsibility saying they shot it down with a rocket propelled grenade. it appears that the force was beginning to launch a raid on a taliban compound in the province just southwest of kabul when the taliban rocket did take this helicopter down. now, in recent months the u.s. military here in kabul has been found of saying that they wrestled the momentum away from the the taliban but this attack, this very deadly ...