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David Beers, Standard & Poor's head of government debt rating unit, explains why S&P downgraded the United States' credit rating from AAA to AA+. Veteran investor Jim Rogers also weighs in. more...

U.S. gold futures and cash bullion struck records on Monday as investors dumped riskier assets after the United States lost its top-tier AAA credit rating from Standard & Poor's in an unprecedented blow to the world's largest economy. more...

With S&P’s downgrade of the United States’ credit rating from AAA to AA, many are speculating on how markets and U.S. authorities will respond. more...

Standard and Poor's downgrade of U.S.'s sovereign credit rating will likely lead to further weakening in the greenback over the medium-term, a number of analysts told CNBC over the weekend. But, they warned, the short-term effects are more uncertain. more...

Chinese economists said the U.S. credit rating downgrade by Standard & Poor's poses great risk to financial markets and expect it to prompt China, the world's biggest holder of U.S. Treasuries, to accelerate the diversification of its holdings.* more...

Markets in the coming week will digest the once unthinkable - the downgrade of the United States gold standard AAA rating - and the impact it will have on other credit ratings and investor confidence. more...

Discussing currency trends and where investor are seeking safe haven, with Win Thin, Brown Brothers Harriman, and CNBC's Sue Herera. more...

Following the last-minute debt deal agreed by President Barack Obama and congressional leaders, one strategist is predicting the rating agencies should downgrade US debt by two notches. more...

Jens Lauschke, Interest Rate Economist at DBS Group Research, says that the US debt deal will remove uncertainties from markets but it is not substantial enough to avert a possible rating downgrade and he maintains a negative outlook on the US dollar. more...

Even a debt deal may not prevent a rating cut for U.S. debt. Here's what it would mean for the dollar, and what you can do. more...

The risk that the United States will lose its AAA credit rating in the next three months has risen considerably, even if lawmakers reach an agreement to raise the country's debt ceiling later this month, an S&P official said on Thursday. more...

Ratings agency Standard & Poor's has warned there is a one-in-two chance it could cut the United States' prized triple-A rating if a deal on raising the government's debt ceiling is not agreed soon.* more...

The United States may lose its top-notch credit rating in the next few weeks if lawmakers fail to increase the country's debt ceiling, forcing the government to miss debt payments, Moody's Investors Service warned Wednesday. more...