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Economists Say Washington Fiscal Politics Hurts Economic, Jobs Growth: Reuters Survey

U.S. economic growth this quarter is likely to be less robust than forecast last month given the erosion of confidence in the wake of the nasty fight over fiscal policy, a Reuters survey showed on ...

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 ...

U.S. May Not Hit Debt Limit Until October

The United States might not hit the statutory limit on its debt until October, a policy research group said on Friday, giving Republican lawmakers more time to extract spending cuts from the Obama ...