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The bears say quantitative easing is boosting stocks. The bulls? A growing U.S. economy, which will push stocks even higher.

Investors may be in a buying mood, after signs of a possible end to the EU's economic slowdown.

Investors now sense that the Fed's tapering may not be as soon as September, given Q1's tepid 1.8% U.S. GDP.

Wall Street's bulls & bears are likely to battle again Friday, after the Fed signaled a changing monetary policy landscape.

Brazil's sovereign debt may be downgraded in the next 2 years on concern about government spending and weak economic growth.

Question: How can you tell when the stock market sets a record high? Answer: When your watch says it's 4 pm.

As the world runs from one man-caused crisis to another, something in our up-is-the-new-down world has to give.

All 20 cities in the Case-Shiller index showed year-over-year gains, the highest of which was Phoenix with a 23.2% improvement.

The benchmark Dow Jones Industrial Average stock index set a record high Tuesday, pushing through the 14,164 level reached in Oct. 2007.

The Justice Department and multiple states are discussing suing Moody's Corp. (NYSE:MCO) for defrauding investors, but they may wait until a similar lawsuit against rival Standard and Poor's is tested in the courts.

S&P will be charged by federal and state authorities for alleged wrongdoing in its ratings of mortgage-backed securities that it issued before 2008.

Indian stock markets advanced Tuesday, the first trading day of the year, as sentiment was buoyed following news that lawmakers in Washington had reached an agreement to avert the fiscal cliff.

S&P said it believes the same conditions that led it to strip the U.S. of its prized AAA rating in August of last year continue to exist.

Criticism of credit rating agencies continues after an analysis revealed their sovereign ratings lack reliability.

S&P warns there is a one-in-three chance that it will strip the U.K. of its cherished AAA status within the next two years.

Diageo Plc, Time Warner, Amarin Corp, Research In Motion, ArcelorMittal, Nokia Corp, Weatherford International, Deutsche Bank and ARM Holdings Plc are among the companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading Friday.

The Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR Fund rose 21.81 percent, while the Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund fell 1.83 percent.

A nonprofit sovereign rating system was proposed in Germany as an alternative to the current system, a day after Moody’s downgraded France.

The decision should help President Hollande convince his compatriots that more reforms are needed.

Two employees at Paris-based Fitch Ratings and five at New York-headquartered Standard & Poor’s are being accused of market manipulation and abuse of privileged information by the public magistrate in the southern Italian town of Trani.

The Australian judiciary delivered a crushing defeat to credit-rating agency Standard & Poor's this week that may have global repercussions