Vittorio Hernandez – AHN News Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – Standard & Poor’s said on Thursday that it may downgrade the U.S.’s AAA credit rating. The ratings agency says that Washington has a 50% chance of a credit rating cut. The S&P warning came a day after another ratings agency, Moody’s Investors Service, made [...]
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S&P says it may cut U.S. AAA credit rating
July 15th, 2011 
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May 25th, 2011 davidguide Egypt’s unemployment rates soared to 11.9 percent during the first quarter of 2011 – an increase from 8.9 percent from late 2010, according to a government statistics agency. Negative economic impacts from events that accompanied the 25 January revolution caused the increase, said Abu Bakr al-Gendi, director of the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and [...]
Posted in Loans Tags: abu bakr, agency, arabic edition, Central, economic impacts, jobless rate, percent, public mobilization, revolution, statistics agency, unemployment, unemployment rates Comments OffMetro board approves 2012 budget
May 20th, 2011 davidguide The board of commissioners for transit district Metro approved on Friday an operating budget of $243.1 million for fiscal year 2012 that begins July 1. The new budget takes into account higher gas prices’ impact on the cost of operations. The overall increase in fuel cost is expected to be $6 million for the year, [...]
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April 20th, 2011 davidguide Windsor Genova – AHN News News Writer Benghazi, Libya (AHN) – An award-winning photographer and co-director of an Oscar-nominated documentary on the war in Afghanistan was killed in Libya on Wednesday while covering the battle in Misurata. Tim Hetherington, whose film “Restrepo” won last year’s Grand Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival, was killed [...]
Posted in Credit Cards Tags: agency, chris hondros, Fast Personal Loans, film, Genova, getty images, grand jury award, moammar gadhafi, Oscar-nominated, shrapnel wounds, sundance film festival, tim hetherington Comments OffU.N. urges North Korea to allow renewed nuclear inspections
March 8th, 2011 davidguide AHN News Staff Seoul, South Korea (AHN) – United Nations atomic watchdog IAEA Chief Yukiya Amano has again called on North Korea to let its inspectors visit nuclear facilities. “I believe that last year’s reports about the construction of a new uranium enrichment facility and a light water reactor in North Korea underlines how important [...]
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January 18th, 2011 davidguide LONDON (MarketWatch) — U.K. credit checking agency Experian said Tuesday that total revenue in the three months to Dec. 31 rose 12%, with organic revenue rising 8%. The group said it has now returned to growth across all regions and principle activities and that for the fiscal year as a whole it continues to expects [...]
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