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S&P Global Ratings (previously Standard & Poor's and informally known as S&P) is an American credit rating agency (CRA) and a division of S&P Global that publishes financial research and analysis on stocks, bonds, and commodities.
In 1860, Henry Varnum Poor formed Poor's Publishing, which published an investor's guide to the railroad industry. [18] In 1923, Standard Statistics Company (founded in 1906 as the Standard Statistics Bureau) began rating mortgage bonds [18] and developed its first stock market index consisting of the stocks of 233 U.S. companies, computed ...
This is a list of countries by credit rating, showing long-term foreign currency credit ratings for sovereign bonds as reported by the largest three major credit rating agencies: Standard & Poor's, Fitch, and Moody's.
During the course of its history, McGraw Hill and from 2016 S&P Global has expanded significantly through acquisition, not just within the publishing industry but also into other areas such as financial services (the purchase of Standard & Poor's in 1966) and broadcasting (the 1972 acquisition of Time-Life Broadcasting).
In the Indian subcontinent, three out of the six registered credit rating agencies are subsidiaries of the big three – including CRISIL (Standard and Poors), ICRA Limited and India Ratings (Fitch). However, there are three other agencies – including CareEdge Ratings , which is the second largest rating agency in India.
Standard & Poor’s. Unlike A.M. Best, Standard & Poor’s rates businesses across all industries, including insurance. They rate the ability and willingness of companies to meet their financial ...
The Standard and Poor's 100, or simply the S&P 100, is a stock market index of United States stocks maintained by Standard & Poor's. The S&P 100 is a subset of the S&P 500 and the S&P 1500 , and holds stocks that tend to be the largest and most established companies in the S&P 500. [ 1 ]
On August 8, 2011, the first trading day after Standard & Poor’s downgraded the US credit rating for the first time ever, the S&P 500 stock index plunged by 6.5%. ... which by definition would ...