TIMELINE - Key dates and milestones in the S&P 500's history

7:47am BST MILAN, May 23 (Reuters) - Ratings agency Standard & Poor's said on Thursday it cut Italian telephone company Telecom Italia's long-term credit rating to BBB- from BBB, with a stable outlook. "The downgrade follows our downward revision of ...

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. had its credit rating cut one notch by Standard & Poor's, which cited a new methodology for evaluating insurers and Berkshire's dependence on its insurance business for dividend income. The rating was cut to ...

The parent company of Standard & Poor's wants a federal judge to dismiss a U.S. government lawsuit that claims the ratings agency gave falsely high ratings to mortgage investments that helped

Core Education & Technologies , India's global education company, dropped after Standard & Poor's (S&P) Ratings Services placed its 'B-plus' long-term corporate credit rating of the company on credit watch with negative implications. A sharp fall in the share ...

Standard & Poor's warns of potentially weaker profits as Montreal-based company tries to clean up its reputation RICHARD BLACKWELL SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. has been hit with a downgrade from Standard & Poor's Corp., which warned of the risk of weaker ...

The UK government officially joined a new initiative which is likely to require companies to commit to standards which will harm economic development in the third-world. The UK recently joined the Tropical Forest Alliance, an organization that ...

New performance standards have been announced (5/23) for oil, gas and mining companies, requiring them to be much more transparent in their business dealings. The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative approved the new performance standards ...

/PRNewswire/ -- Standard & Poor's Ratings Services (S&P) has released the first round of new ratings for insurance companies which have been reassessed under their revised rating criteria issued on May 7. The first round of announcements relates to ...

(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NewStar Financial Inc. , a specialized commercial finance company, announced today that it has amended and restated its senior secured notes to increase the amount to $200 million, extend the term to five years and reduce the ...