Update: 18/08/2011 - banking - Economic crisis - economy - USA
US probes Standard & Poor’s over mortgages
The US Justice Department has launched an investigation into the Standard & Poor’s ratings agency over whether it improperly rated mortgage securities in the years before the financial crisis, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.
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