Wall Street snapped out of its holiday-season funk on Friday. The Standard & Poor's 500 rallied 1.3% for its first gain since ...

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%.

And all stocks fit into 11 categories, called sectors, as defined by Standard & Poor’s. Classification is a useful, but artificial process. When dinosaur fossils were discovered two centuries ...

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.

Rating raised from BBB-/A-3 to 'BBB/A-2, with stable outlook In December 2024, S&P Global Ratings raised its long- and short-term issuer credit ratings on Bank of Valletta to BBB/A-2 from BBB-/A-3 ...

Its Standard & Poor's Depositary Receipt ETF was established in 1993. Today, that fund is known as the SPDR S&P 500 ETF, and is the industry’s largest ETF in terms of assets. State Street runs ...