Standard & Poor's (S&P)
Definition
US financial information publishing and securities rating firm which also maintains the CUSIP number system. A part of McGraw-Hill group of companies, it publishes bond Guide, earnings Guide, stock Guide, stock reports, S&P register, and other such material, but is best known for Standard & Poor's 500 composite index. It also maintains indices such as S&P MidCap 400, S&P SmallCap 600, and the S&P 1500 Super composite index that represents 82 percent of the market capitalization of all US stocks traded in the equities market.
Standard & Poor's (S&P) is in the Banking, Commerce & Finance, Investing and Securities & Futures Trading subjects.
Standard & Poor's (S&P) appears in the definitions of the following terms:
speculative security,
bond ratings,
index fund,
midddle capitalization stock,
AAA,
index option,
bond rating agencies,
indexing,
beta,
Moody's Investors Service
and
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