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%.

Standard & Poor’s reaffirmed the authority’s AA- bond rating, but in an April 25 report downgraded its outlook from stable to negative and warned of the potential for future changes. Bryan ...

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is currently seeking a state bailout, but given that the state says it has “no capacity” for new ...

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 released a report showing that the sad state of the legal industry is crushing stand-alone law schools which aren't attached to larger universities. Four of the five stand ...

The one-day drop was six percent (on the Standard & Poor’s 500) on its worst day, which followed a nearly five percent drop the day prior. Despite the sense of panic or dread that many people ...

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 ...

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 ...