S&P

Sterne Agee reiterates its Buy rating and $24 target price on PHH (NYSE: PHH) as it lowers estimates to reflect focus on cash generation. Sterne Agee comments, "The crux of S&P's downgrade of the company notes to BB- is tied to the company's ability to raise the required liquidity to pay...

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, a unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies, today announced a new organization structure to accelerate growth through excellence in ratings, service and operations.  The changes are effective immediately. "As we look forward to 2012, these organizational changes...

Long-term ratings on CreditWatch negative Austria (Republic of) Sovereign Credit Rating AAA/Watch Neg/A-1+ AAA/Stable/A-1+ Belgium (Kingdom of) Sovereign Credit Rating AA/Watch Neg/A-1+ AA/Negative/A-1+ Finland (Republic of) Sovereign Credit Rating AAA/Watch Neg/A-1+ AAA/Stable/A-1+...

Shares of Assured Guaranty (NYSE: AGO) are screaming higher this morning despite S&P lowering its credit rating on the name. currently, shares are higher by 19.59%, trading at $11.60. Shares are expected to find resistance here, given that it is trading at the 50-day moving average. AGO has...

Yesterday, credit ratings agency Standard & Poor's accidentally sent out a message saying that it was downgrading France's AAA rating. In a statement, the firm said that "As a result of a technical error, a message was automatically disseminated today to some subscribers of S&P's Global...

Shares of Canadian Pacific Railway (NYSE: CP) are trading lower on the session by 2.80%, at $62.76. This comes after Bill Ackman, hedge manager at Pershing Square Capital, reported a 12.2% stake in the railway with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Mr. Ackman has control over 20.6 million...

What is Technical Analysis? Technical Analysis is a tool that many people on Wall Street utilize to profit in the stock market. It uses past price data and different indicators to predict future price movements. Behavioral economics and quantitative analysis are also included in the umbrella of...

So gold did not go to $2,000 an ounce by the end of September as was discussed last month, but that does not mean it will not get there, eventually. Gold gave back almost all of the gain it had in August (12%) in September, as the short term mentality of "return of capital, not return on capital...

Last night, the ratings agency S&P downgraded Italian debt, but equity markets are mostly shrugging it off, with European markets higher. Why? Because it was already baked in, unlike when S&P cut the U.S. debt, sending uncertainty higher, and the financial markets into a tailspin. With...

We discussed the reasons last month why gold would go to $2,000 an ounce by the end of August. That did not happen, and fell well short of that level, closing at roughly $1,830 an ounce. Still, gold had a spectacular month, gaining 12% during August, thanks in part to worries over the S&P...

First, Standard and Poor's downgrades the U.S. debt. Next, Deven Sharma (S&P's president) announces that he has resigned. Now McGraw-Hill (NYSE: MHP), which owns Standard & Poor's, has roused proposals of splitting up the company. Is this restructuring a result of poor decisions by McGraw...