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Empowering Investors and Markets for 150 years
Standard & Poor's (S&P), a part of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE:MHP), is the world's foremost provider of credit ratings. With offices in 23 countries, S&P is an important part of the world's financial infrastructure and has played a leading role for 150 years in providing investors with information and independent benchmarks for their investment and financial decisions.
A global leader in credit ratings and credit risk analysis, S&P provides objective and independent opinions on credit risk. S&P's public ratings are disseminated broadly and free of charge to recipients all over the world on www.standardandpoors.com. S&P's worldwide ratings organization builds upon its extensive knowledge and deep insight through its focus on sectors, type of debt, and geographic location. Analytical teams assess issuers and debt obligations of corporations, financial institutions, insurance companies, states and municipalities, and sovereign governments, and provide insight into the credit risk associated with securitized instruments.
In 2010, S&P Ratings Services issued more than 160,000 new and 550,000 revised ratings, and has issued ratings on debt securities in over 100 countries.
