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It Is Hard To Imagine That, Having Downgraded The Us, S & P Will Not Follow Suit On At Least One Of The Other Members Of The Dwindling Club Of Sovereign Aaas. If This Were To Materialise And Involve A Country Like France, For Example, It Could Complicate The Already Fragile Efforts By Europe To Rescue Countries In Its Periphery.

-Mohamed El-Erian

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It Is Hard To Imagine That, Having

Mohamed El-Erian

It Is Hard To Imagine That, Having Downgraded The Us, S & P Will Not Follow Suit On At Least One Of The Other Members Of The Dwindling Club Of Sovereign Aaas. If This Were To Materialise And Involve A Country Like France, For Example, It Could Complicate The Already Fragile Efforts By Europe To Rescue Countries In Its Periphery.

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