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updated 9:14 a.m.EDT, Mon August 8, 2011

U.S. stocks ready to tumble after debt downgrade

Stocks are much lower in pre-market trading as investors get their first chance to react to Standard & Poor's downgrade of U.S. debt, CNNMoney reports. FULL STORY

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• World markets tumble CNNMoney
• Did S&P get it right? CNNMoney
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• How to get back to AAA CNNMoney
• Wake up call for U.S. and China?
• Zakaria: We've downgraded ourselves
• Opinion: Frum | Gergen | Zelizer

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