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The wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton is almost here, and there's no escaping the brouhaha. It seems like everyone is trying to make a buck off the royal nuptials. With that in mind, here are three "royal" stocks that may be worth a look now. Royal Dutch Shell Perhaps the biggest...

Fitch Downgrades 56 Portuguese Structured Finance Tranches on Sovereign Downgrade.

Fitch is cutting Pepsi's (NYSE: PEP) rating outlook to negative, but is keeping its rating at A+ after the North America beverage giant announced yesterday it would be buying a 66% stake in Wimm-Bill-Dann (NYSE: WBD) for $3.8 billion. "The negative outlook reflects that PepsiCo's leverage is...

- Fitch Ratings assigns an 'AA+' rating to the following Commonwealth of Massachusetts general obligation (GO) bonds: --$119,640,000 GO refunding bonds, 2010 series B; --$173,460,000 GO bonds, consolidated loan of 2010, series C. In addition, Fitch affirms the following ratings: --Approximately $...

Commercial Real Estate Week in Review-June 13-19 -Interested in a long term investment? It may be the time to get into REITs. -Sunway REIT on track for $522MM IPO. -Kimco Realty (NYSE: KIM) and Big Shopping Centers (NYSE: BIG) enter into a joint venture to purchase $422MM retail...

Commercial Real Estate Week in Review-June 6-12 -Obama to Congress: Get reform bills reconciled before G-20. -GE Capital to cut real estate portfolio by 50%. -Cassidy Turley looking to compete with Jones Lang LaSalle (NYSE: JLL) and CB Richard Ellis in commercial real estate. -JP...

Fitch ratings agency has just downgraded Spain's debt. The S&P is now down 11.78 points, or 1.07%, to 1,091.28. The euro has fallen to 1.23 on the news of Fitch's downgrade. A key ETF to watch is the iShares MSCI Spain Index (NYSE: EWP). It is currently down 84 cents, or 2.48%, to $33.00.

Mixed trading was seen in energy stocks as a restructuring plan by Williams Companies Inc. (NYSE: WMB) lifted natural gas shares, while petroleum shares dropped on lower crude prices. Most of the gains from natural gas stocks came from an 11% rally in shares of Williams Companies, which unveiled a...