One sign is that the Standard & Poor's list of five hundred stocks has risen more than twenty-five percent in the past five weeks.

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So, reporters start calling the other rating agencies-- Standard & Poor's and Moody's and others--and say, are you going to down-rate these guys?

于是记者们开始询问其他的评级机构,像是标准普尔和穆迪,问他们,你们打算给这些公司降级吗

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

This is the stock market for the United States; it's the Standard & Poor Composite.

这是美国的股票市场,这是标准普尔综合指数

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It was the strongest performer on the Standard Poor's 500-stock index on Tuesday, and has gained 95% this year.

WSJ: Dow Reaches 4-Year High

The Standard Poor's 500-stock index gained 7.32 points, or 0.6%, to 1285.50 Tuesday.

WSJ: U.S. Stocks Rise on Service-Sector Data

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.

BBC: UK credit rating 'on the edge'