Fitch warns it may downgrade US over debt standoff

It is more likely that United States could lose its top credit rating from a leading agency for the second time if there’s a delay in raising the country’s debt ceiling. The U.S. government reached its statutory debt limit of nearly $16.4 trillion at the end of 2012 but has engineered extraordinary measures that should see it through February.

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Fitch warns it may downgrade US over debt standoff