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. The Nasdaq added 0.8%.

Imagen de archivo de un hombre caminando frente al edificio de Standard & Poor's en el distrito financiero de Nueva York, Estados Unidos. 5 de febrero, 2013. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/Archivo BCP ...

The three major bond ratings agencies are Moody's, Standard & Poor's, and Fitch Ratings. Investment-grade bonds offer lower interest but high safety; speculative ones have higher risk and return.

Standard & Poor’s has revised its outlook for Egypt to stable, and affirmed its credit rating at ‘B-/B’. The agency said that Egypt’s high external and domestic financing requirements make it ...

Paraguay's review by the international rating agency Standard & Poor's (S&P) has been upgraded from “stable to positive,” it was announced Wednesday in Asunción, as President Santiago Peña ...

The credit rating agency Standard & Poor's Wednesday upgraded Uruguay BBB+, with a stable outlook, the highest level in the country's history, it was announced. This index reflects the level of ...

In 2011, following the difficulty caused by the Great Recession, S&P Global Ratings (formerly Standard & Poor's) downgraded the long-term credit outlook of the United States from its highest ...

This system, created jointly by Morgan Stanley and Standard & Poor's, sorts companies into sectors based on their primary business activities. Investors can then use the sector classifications to ...