The ratings agency Standard & Poor's has reduced the United States' long-term debt rating from AAA to AA+, the company announced late Friday.

The Standard & Poor's 500 rose 0.6% while the Dow Jones industrial average gained 0.4%. Both indexes closed out November with their best monthly performances of the year.

Wall Street snapped out of its holiday-season funk on Friday. The Standard & Poor's 500 rallied 1.3% for its first gain since Christmas and its best day in nearly two months.

Stocks rose Thursday to send Wall Street to its highest level in nearly eight weeks after reports suggesting the economy and corporate profits may be doing better than predicted. The Standard ...

S&P Global, formerly Standard & Poor's, is best known as a source of credit ratings for businesses and for its benchmark financial indices, including the S&P 500 Index.

On March 31, 2025, Standard & Poor’s has upgraded Michelin’s (Compagnie Générale des Etablissements Michelin and its main financial subsidiaries) Long-Term Issuer Default Rating (IDR) rating ...

The S&P 500 Index (Standard & Poor's 500 Index) is a market-capitalization-weighted index of 500 leading publicly traded companies in the U.S. It was launched in 1957.

Standard & Poor’s has put Chicago on a "credit watch," which could raise the interest rate the city pays by about one-quarter of a percentage point. And with the city planning to refinance $1.5 ...

Regulatory News: Verallia (Paris:VRLA) announces that Standard & Poor's has upgraded the Group's long-term credit rating to BBB- with a positive o ...

Standard & Poor's downgrade of France's credit rating, a wake-up call for the government The American rating agency has downgraded France's debt rating from AA to AA-. While this downgrade will ...