It was the strongest performer on the Standard Poor's 500-stock index on Tuesday, and has gained 95% this year.
The Standard Poor's 500-stock index gained 7.32 points, or 0.6%, to 1285.50 Tuesday.
"It was a little better than expected, " said David Wyss, chief economist at Standard and Poor's.
David Wyss, chief economist at Standard and Poor's, said the timing puts the figure under question.
In its report, Standard and Poor's said it had revised the way it grades sovereign jurisdictions.
"This industry is turning a corner, " says Standard and Poor's Senior Cable and Satellite analyst Tuna Amobi.
"People are going to realize that Qwest is too weak, " says Standard and Poor's Research analyst Todd Rosenbluth.
Standard and Poor's affirmed the financial strength of MBIA and Ambac shortly before the market closed on Monday.
Tisch liked to short stocks, but when he sensed systemic risk he sold Standard and Poor's Index futures.
Britain was not identified as a credit risk by Standard and Poor's in its report earlier this month.
These will turn into losses if the stockmarket falls another 20%, reckons Standard and Poor's, a credit-rating agency.
In 2000, Standard and Poor's Fixed Income Research made only one credit upgrade for every four credit downgrades.
"The endgame is a greater share of the consumer's wallet, " says Standard and Poor's Equity Research analyst Todd Rosenbluth.
"They know Verizon's lurking around the corner, " says Tuna Amobi, Standard and Poor's Research senior cable and satellite analyst.
"The payments are staggered over the term, " says Tuna Amobi, Standard and Poor's Research senior cable and satellite analyst.
The Standard and Poor's 500 fell two points to 1, 500, trimming its advance for the month to 5.2 percent.
Standard and Poor's recently downgraded its outlook for Mohegan Sun because of the softness in the Connecticut gaming market.
"I was surprised that Cablevision was that aggressive, " says Tuna Amobi, Standard and Poor's Research senior cable and satellite analyst.
Credit ratings agency Standard and Poor's downgraded the company's creditworthiness in May.
Standard and Poor's, which earlier this year said GM had enough cash to get through 2009, now says the carmaker's position is more precarious.
Mr Shaeuble suggested the recent downgrade of Italy's credit rating by Standard and Poor's may encourage it to speed up its own austerity measures to reassure markets.
The coalition has long banked the credibility of its deficit reduction programme on the verdict of the global credit rating agencies, Moody's, Standard and Poor's and Fitch.
Standard and Poor's affirmed the financial strength of MBIA (nyse: MBE - news - people ) and Ambac shortly before the market closed on Monday.
Rating company Standard and Poor's raised the country's long-term sovereign credit rating from "stable" to "positive" last week, citing optimism about the government's ability to carry out structural changes.
The Dow Jones industrial average crossed 15, 000 for the first time early Friday, and the Standard and Poor's 500 index, a broader market measure, broke through 1, 600 for the first time.
The comments from senior French figures followed a recent warning from US credit ratings agency Standard and Poor's that France could lose its triple-A credit rating over the eurozone crisis.
On Tuesday, credit rating agency Standard and Poor's said it had downgraded Tunisia's rating, citing "a risk that the political situation could deteriorate further amid a worsening fiscal, external and economic outlook".
The standing of the fund relies on the credit of the countries that back it, including France, which is threatened with a two-notch downgrade to its AAA credit rating by Standard and Poor's.
The chancellor's speech comes as Standard and Poor's said it would hold the UK's credit rating at the highest possible level in light of its "wealthy and diversified economy" and said the outlook remained "stable".
Shares in Moody's, the ratings agency, and McGraw-Hill, which owns rival agency Standard and Poor's, have both tumbled since February, as investors have grown less attracted by the business of rating securities based on subprime mortgages.
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