U.S. antitrust probe to be credit negative for Google - Moody's

Ratings agency Moody's Investor Service said on Wednesday that reports of U.S. agencies probing the business practices and market position of Alphabet Inc's Google are credit negative for the technology giant.The U.S. government is gearing up to investigate whether Amazon.com Inc, Apple Inc, Facebook Inc and Google misused their massive market power and their leaders will be asked to testify as part of the probe.Although there is no impact on Alphabet's Aa2 long-term debt rating, short term cred