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<P class=textBodyBlack><SPAN id=byLine></SPAN>Standard & Poor's cut the U.S. long-term credit rating from top-tier AAA by a notch to AA-plus on Friday over concerns about the nation's budget deficits and climbing debt burden. <br>
<P class=textBodyBlack><SPAN id=byLine></SPAN>China -- the United States' biggest creditor -- said Washington only had itself to blame for its plight and called for a new stable global reserve currency. <br>
<P class=textBodyBlack><SPAN id=byLine></SPAN>"The U.S. government has to come to terms with the painful fact that the good old days when it could just borrow its way out of messes of its own making are finally gone," China's official Xinhua news agency said in a commentary. <br>
<P class=textBodyBlack><SPAN id=byLine></SPAN>After a week which saw $2.5 trillion wiped off global markets, the move deepened investors' concerns of an impending recession in the United States and over the euro zone crisis. <br>
作者:汗青 时间:2011年08月05日 19:22 查看全文