With all the focus on stock market gyrations this past week, here are a few stories of interest you may have missed. EU Upset With Moody’s, S&P, Threaten to Create Own Rating Agency EU’s Financial Services Chief To Probe Credit Rating Agencies “I think we need to go further to look at the impact of the ratings on the financial system or economic system as a whole…,” European Internal Markets Commissioner Michel Barnier told members of the European Parliament. “If …

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EU Pissed at Rating Agencies; Gold Tops $1,200; Pentagon Lobbies Against Raises for Troops; MUFU Redemptions Blocked In Germany; Everybody for Himself