Article: Dun & Bradstreet Interim CEO Splitting Off Moody's Investor Services.

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Dec. 16 -- Clifford L. Alexander Jr. is interim chairman and CEO of Dun & Bradstreet Corp., but he's not acting like an interim.

Just a few weeks ago the 66-year-old executive announced the shutdown of D&B's business education division in Manhattan. Yesterday, a month after he ruled out splitting off the company's prestigious Moody's Investors Services as a "quick fix" he wouldn't take, he announced he would do just that.

The Murray Hill-based company said it will separate Moody's credit rating service and its operating company into two publicly traded companies in an effort to become more profitable. That ...

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