The Standard & Poor’s 500 index climbed 1.1% to clinch its highest finish since Dec. 2. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 0.6%, while the Nasdaq composite rallied 1.8%.

The Standard & Poor’s 500 rallied 1.3% for its first gain since Dec. 24 and its best day in nearly two months. Strength for Big Tech stocks helped it break a five-day losing streak, ...

Standard & Poor's said the changed outlook signaled its view that "U.S. policymakers might not reach an agreement on how to address medium- and long-term budgetary challenges by 2013." ...

The president of Standard & Poor's is stepping down, an announcement coming only weeks after the rating agency's unprecedented move to strip the United States of its AAA credit rating.

Eric Holder and his team announced a $1.4 billion settlement with Standard & Poor’s regarding its ratings of mortgage backed securities and its role in the crash of 2008. There is no question of the ...

First, Standard & Poor's downgraded U.S. debt from AAA to AA+. Now critics in and out of government have returned the fire -- downgrading the credit rating company rhetorically and perhaps soon ...

Aug. 8, 2011— -- Standard & Poor's today downgraded the debt of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and 10 of 12 Federal Home Loan Banks that were propped up by the federal government after the financial ...

In October 20020 Standard And Poor announced its acquisition of Market IHS in a $14bn mega-merger between a financial information giant and an established fintech company that provides the ...

Standard & Poor's slashed the credit ratings of the holding companies for eight major global banks amid growing evidence that the U.S. government would not bail them out in the event of another ...

Standard & Poor’s is casting its name into the same corporate junkyard as PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young and American Telephone & Telegraph Co.

Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services affirmed its credit rating on the U.S. at double-A-plus, one notch below the prestigious triple-A, citing factors including the nation’s diversified and ...