The EU debt crisis is once again taking center stage and investors are becoming aware of the negative press coming out of the EU Zone. Many investors are pushing the panic button in France, after it was rumored that the S&P was planning to downgrade France’s AAA credit rating. The panic has started a heavy sell-off in the stock market of French banks and the Euro is also down today.

The markets sold sharply this morning on the back of a downgrade by Standard & Poor's. They downgraded the long-term credit in the U.S to negative. The SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSE:SPY) is trading at $129.94, -2.10 (-1.59%). This downgrade was inevitable, as the trillions printed by the Federal Reserve continues, however, the markets have been enjoying a period of ignorance is bliss on this matter.

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SciQuest, Inc. (NASDAQ:SQI) a leading provider of on-demand strategic procurement and supplier management solutions, announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2010. Stephen Wiehe, President and Chief Executive Officer of SciQuest, said, "We ended 2010 on a very strong note with high levels of customer activity in all of our target markets.