Lockheed Martin has been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for 2015 for a second consecutive year, the company announced today. The 2015 Index represents the top 10 percent of the largest 2,500 companies in the S&P Global ...

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For the first time in seven years, Baltimore's bond rating has increased.

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NEW YORK — Standard & Poor’s for the first time has assigned Freddie Mac a ranking as a loan servicer, giving the government-controlled mortgage giant an “Above Average” ranking for its servicing of loans tied to rental apartment buildings. Standard ...

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WASHINGTON — Home prices kept rising in July across the United States, buoyed by greater sales and fewer foreclosures. National home prices increased 1.2 percent in July, compared to the same month last year, according to the Standard & Poor’s/Case ...

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WASHINGTON — The rating agency Standard & Poor’s stunned the world a year ago by stripping the U.S. government of its prized AAA bond rating. The downgrade of long-term U.S. Treasurys threatened to sow chaos in financial markets, driving up ...

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NEW YORK — Regulators are investigating Standard & Poor’s over some of its ratings, according to a filing by the S&P’s parent company. The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc., which owns the S&P ratings agency, says the Department of Justice and the ...

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NEW YORK — Stocks rallied Friday as new governments get ready to take over in Italy and Greece, the two countries at the center of Europe’s debt crisis. Italy’s Senate approved an economic reform bill, opening the way for Premier ...

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WASHINGTON — The Securities and Exchange Commission is considering taking civil action against Standard & Poor’s for its rating of a 2007 mortgage debt offering. Such action could be just the first shot in a legal assault against the major ...

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Fitch Ratings said Tuesday it will keep its rating on U.S. debt at the highest grade, AAA, and issued a “stable” outlook, meaning it expects the rating to stay there. That’s better than the other two main ratings agencies: Moody’s ...

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Amazing. Just amazing. The last week in the mortgage industry has been a series of wild swings of ups and downs that has culminated in a furious wave of phone calls and emails to borrowers and homeowners to get them ...

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