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Moody's hits Claire's Stores with downgrade

When it rains it pours. Buyout firm Apollo Management LP suffered a blow when Linens 'n Things Inc. filed for bankruptcy earlier in the year. Now Moody's Investors Service has downgraded another Apollo retail acquisition, Claire's Stores Inc., a jewelry and accessory retailer. Moody's dropped the rating for Claire's from B3 to Caa1 because of weak results over the last two quarters. Linens suffered the same downgrade before it filed....



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