The decision by Moody’s to strip U.S. government debt from its triple-A rating shouldn’t come as a surprise to investors given the country’s large budget deficit, with the downgrade unlikely to trigger significant dumping of Treasurys,

U.S. stocks, bonds and the value of the U.S. dollar are drifting on Monday following the latest reminder that the U.S government seems to be hurtling toward an unsustainable mountain of debt. The S&P 500 was mostly unchanged in afternoon trading after Moody’s Ratings became the last of the three major credit-rating agencies to say