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Financial Regulators Discuss Debt Ceiling, Government Shutdown
U.S. financial regulators discussed the federal debt ceiling and the effect of the government shutdown on market monitoring during a phone conversation on Tuesday, a Treasury Department spokesman ...
Holders of U.S. Government Debt Draw Up Contingency Plans for Default
No one expects it to happen, but everyone's making sure they're prepared for it. Banks, funds and asset management firms holding U.S. government bonds are drawing up contingency plans on how to deal ...
Experts See U.S. Default As Financial Apocalypse
Anyone who remembers the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. little more than five years ago knows what a global financial disaster is. A U.S. government default, just weeks away if Congress ...