Standard & Poor's

* Standard & Poor's, Moody's and Fitch sued * Lawsuit alleges agencies caused $457 million losses * Moody's, S&P reject allegations; Fitch has no comment * Moody's shares down 2 pct, McGraw-Hill shares down 3 pct (Adds Moody's and S&P...

In this article: Moody's, Fitch, Richard Cordray, First Amendment, Ohio, NEW YORK, and Allegation

...the size of a client's database, that can range from an annual charge of under $20,000 to nearly $400,000, according to S&P's Web site. S&P pays a royalty to the American Banker Association, which owns the Cusip system's intellectual...

In this article: Monopoly, European Union, U.S., All rights reserved, Thomson Reuters Corp., Dow Jones & Company, Inc., and Supreme Court

...number-tag fees * Commission says it abused monopoly when charging * Group dismisses accusations from EU (Adds comment from S&P, detail) By John O'Donnell and Foo Yun Chee The European Commission said it believed Standard & Poor's...

In this article: EU, Monopoly, Europe, and U.S.

...that the company unfairly demands payment for securities information numbers in databases. Published: 1:13PM GMT 19 Nov 2009 S&P, a division of New York-based information-services company McGraw-Hill, is the only issuer of international...

In this article: European Union, Monopoly, Thomson Reuters, McGraw-Hill, US, and New York

...by offshore regulators and moved to tighten the rules under which these bodies operate. Standard & Poor's reacted this week by announcing it would pull out of rating securities that were available to retail investors, saying that it could...

In this article: Moody's, Jodee Rich, Defendant, Australian Securities and Investments Commission, Commonwealth Bank, and New Zealand

...International Securities Identification Numbers, or ID codes for securities. "The Commission's preliminary conclusion is that S&P is abusing this monopoly position by enforcing the payment of license fees for the use of U.S....

In this article: European Union, Monopoly, and United States

...date. Another S&P SmallCap 600 index company, The Dress Barn Inc., is buying Tween Brands in a deal that is expected to close soon. S&P said it would monitor the transaction and post changes to its Web site. City Holding, based in...

In this article: Tween Brands Inc., Charleston, NEW YORK, and West Virginia

...including some rating cuts to the CCC level, which is deep into junk territory and suggests "substantial risk" of default, S&P said. The rating actions affect 48 U.S. CLOs and show that the ripple effects of a global credit crisis...

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...including the "B-" corporate credit rating, remain unchanged. If Salem is successful in refinancing its capital structure, S&P said it would expect to raise the corporate credit rating by one notch, to "B'' with a stable outlook. It...

In this article: Salem Communications and NEW YORK

...Poor's said on Monday. Through Nov. 11, some 243 issuers have defaulted this year, the most in any one year since S&P began tracking them in 1981. The dollar volume of worldwide defaults has ballooned to $573 billion so far in 2009 from...

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