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Standard & Poor's
Standard & Poor's Cuts Credit Ratings for Nine Euro Zone Nations CNBC 01/13/2012 | France Likely to Lose Top Rating: S&PJohn Glover Bloomberg.com 10/20/2011 |
 Standard & Poor's downgraded the credit ratings of nine euro zone countries, stripping France and Austria of their coveted triple-A status but not EU paymaster Germany, in a Black Friday 13th for the troubled single currency area. |  France is among euro-region sovereigns likely to be downgraded in a stressed economic scenario, according to Standard & Poor’s. |
Standard and Poor's cuts Italy ratings one notch, outlook negative Reuters 09/19/2011 | Standard & Poor's President Stepping Down FOX News 08/22/2011 |
 Standard and Poor's downgraded its unsolicited ratings on Italy by one notch to A/A-1 and kept its outlook on negative, a major surprise that threatens to add to concerns of contagion in the debt-stressed euro zone. |  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. |
US Inquiry Eyes S&P Ratings of MortgagesLouise Story CNBC 08/17/2011 | Greece Receives Lowest Credit Rating by S&PJennifer Ryan and Gabi Thesing Bloomberg.com 06/13/2011 |
 The Justice Department is investigating whether the nation’s largest credit ratings agency, Standard & Poor’s, improperly rated dozens of mortgage securities in the years leading up to the financial crisis, according to two people interviewed by the government and another briefed on such interviews. |  Greece was branded with the world’s lowest credit rating by Standard & Poor’s, which said the nation is “increasingly likely” to face a debt restructuring and the first sovereign default in the euro area’s history. |
Wall Street shares slump as S&P downgrades US debt outlookLarry Elliott The Guardian 04/18/2011 | Greece Cut to Junk at S&P as Contagion SpreadsEmma Ross-Thomas and Andrew Davis Bloomberg.com 04/27/2010 |
 Shares fell heavily on Wall Street on Monday after a leading ratings agency fanned fears of Europe's debt crisis spreading across the Atlantic by issuing a strong warning about America's failure to tackle its budget deficit. |  Greece’s credit rating was cut three steps to junk by Standard and Poor’s, the first time a euro member has lost its investment grade since the currency’s 1999 debut. The euro weakened and stock markets throughout the region plunged. |
Standard & Poor's Announces Changes to U.S. Indices Standard & Poor's 06/22/2009 | |
 Standard & Poor's will make the following changes to the S&P 500, S&P MidCap 400 and S&P SmallCap 600 indices: | |
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