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Good morning. Here are a few Washington events of note for Wednesday, September 17. President Bush is meeting with Panamanian President Martin Torrijos. The Business Roundtable is speaking on American competitiveness, led by Chairman Harold McGraw III...

May 21 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department on Monday asked a federal judge to deny Standard & Poor's motion to dismiss a government lawsuit against the ratings agency, saying its statements on certain financial products were fraudulent and not mere...

By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON, May 14 (Reuters) - A bipartisan pair of U.S. senators urged federal securities regulators to move quickly on fundamental changes to how credit-rating agencies are compensated, a step they said will reduce the type of...

3 may (Reuters) - La agencia de calificación de crédito Moody's Corp reportó el viernes una ganancia ajustada del primer trimestre que superó las estimaciones de los analistas, ayudada por una ola de emisiones de deuda corporativa. La ganancia neta...

Reports: Employment cost index for first quarter, 7:30 a.m.; Case-Schiller 20-city home-price index for February, 8 a.m.; Chicago PMI for April, 8:45 a.m.; Consumer confidence for April, 9 a.m.; State Street investor confidence index for April, 9 a.m....

April 30 (Reuters) - McGraw-Hill Cos Inc, the parent of credit ratings agency Standard & Poor's Corp, reported a rise in first-quarter profit on a one-time gain from the sale of its education business. Net income rose to $735 million, or $2.59 per share,...

April 29 (Reuters) - Morgan Stanley and two ratings agencies have agreed to pay about $225 million to settle lawsuits claiming they concealed risks in two mortgage-related deals that collapsed during the financial crisis, the Wall Street Journal...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Moody's Investors Service and Standard & Poor's on Friday said they have settled two long-running lawsuits seeking to hold them responsible for misleading investors about the safety of risky debt vehicles that they had rated. The...

April 25 (Reuters) - Standard & Poor's suffered a legal defeat late on Wednesday when a Connecticut federal judge said that state's lawsuit accusing the credit rating agency of inflating its ratings to win business belongs in state court, not federal...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government is accusing the debt rating agency Standard & Poor's of fraud for giving high ratings to risky mortgage bonds that helped bring about the financial crisis. The government filed a civil complaint late Monday...

Google and the Association of American Publishers Thursday ended seven years of bitter litigation with a settlement over the search giant's use of copyrighted books in its Google Library project. The deal will provide access to publishers' in-copyright...

The American Assn. of Publishers and Google announced that they have reached an agreement in the Google Books scanning case, filed almost seven years ago. The agreement need not be ratified by a judge to be implemented. The publishers involved in the...