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Rating Agencies Get a Credit Check
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| Credit-rating agencies wield enormous power as gatekeepers to the financial markets for companies and even governments. For more than a decade, the Securities & Exchange Commission has wrestled over whether -- and how -- it should act as a watchdog ov |
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Nov 18, 2004 17:06:04 |
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