NEW YORK, February 21 (FinanceEnquiry.com) - S&P Rating Services released its response related to the questions asked regarding its revised principal stability funds criteria in a report titled “A Closer Look at the Revised Principal Stability Fund Ratings Criteria." On June 8, 2011,Read more..

NEW YORK, February 15 (FinanceEnquiry.com) - Standard & Poor’s Rating Services lowered long-term issuer credit rating on Residential Capital LLC from ‘CCC’ to ‘CC’, and issue-level ratings on ResCap’s junior subordinated and senior unsecured debt from ‘CRead more..

NEW YORK, February 15 (FinanceEnquiry.com) - Standard & Poor’s Rating Services lowered its rating on 34 Italian financial institutions.    In a research note published on February 10, Standard & Poor’s move of degrading the rating on Italian financial institutions waRead more..

NEW YORK, February 15 (FinanceEnquiry.com) - Standard & Poor’s Rating Services updated its Banking Industry Country Risk Assessment (BICRA) from group3 to group 4 on the Republic of Italy.  Moreover, it also revised the economic risk and industry risk scores of two components of BICRARead more..

NEW YORK, February 15 (FinanceEnquiry.com) - Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services assigned preliminary ratings of 'BB(sf)' and 'B(sf)' to the Series 2012-1 Class A and Class B notes, respectively, to be issued by Mystic Re III Ltd.  In a research note published on February 13, S&PRead more..

NEW YORK, February 15 (FinanceEnquiry.com) - Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services affirmed ‘A-‘ long term issuer credit rating on London Stock Exchange, and removed from CreditWatch. Moreover, S&P confirmed ‘A-2’ short-term rating with negative outlook. In a Read more..

 NEW YORK, February 1 (FinanceEnquiry.com) - Standard & Poor’s Rating Services placed some Spain-based banks on CreditWatch with negative implications after the downgrade of the Kingdom of Spain on January 13, 2012.  In a research note published on January 31, S&P downgradRead more..

NEW YORK, February 1 (FinanceEnquiry.com) - Standard & Poor’s Rating Services' rated US  finance companies should continue to improve their financial performance at a slow-but-steady pace this year like it did in 2011 by avoiding some key risks, as published in an S&P’s artiRead more..

NEW YORK, February 1 (FinanceEnquiry.com) - Standard & Poor’s Rating Services increased rating of HealthSpring Inc. from ‘BB-‘ to investment grade of ‘BBB-‘on completion of its acquisition by Cigna. In a research note published on January 31, S&P’s RatinRead more..

NEW YORK, February 1 (FinanceEnquiry.com) - Standard & Poor’s Rating Services downgraded its outlook on Jefferies Group Inc. and Cantor Fitzgerald L.P. from stable to negative and assigned ‘BBB-‘ratings on GFI Group Inc. with negative implications on CreditWatch. In addition, aRead more..