That legislation, which the Congressional Budget Office estimated will add $4.5 trillion to the deficit through 2034, proved ...

For the 13th consecutive year, Standard and Poor’s Global Ratings has reaffirmed the City of Portsmouth’s AAA bond rating.

Moody’s held in there the longest, but it had to acknowledge what the other financial ratings houses had said before: The ...

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%.

Moody’s Ratings stripped the U.S. government of its top credit rating Friday, citing successive governments’ failure to stop a rising tide of debt.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Standard & Poor’s affirmed Slovakia’s A+ sovereign credit rating on Friday but revised its outlook from stable to negative, warning that global trade tensions could pose a significant risk to the ...

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 ...