The rupee fell to a near one-week low on Monday after Standard & Poor's warned the country may be the first to lose its investment-grade rating among BRIC nations, adding to worries about India's fisc

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Monday rejected Standard and Poor's report that India could be the first BRIC country to falter and said there will be a turnaround in growth prospects in the comi

Ratings agency Standard & Poor's on Wednesday cut India's outlook to negative from stable, citing its large fiscal deficit and expectations of only modest progress on reforms given political constrain

Ratings agency Standard & Poor's on Wednesday cut its outlook on India to ‘negative’ from ‘stable’. What does it mean?

Outlook indicates potential direction of ratings in short to medium term, typica

Ratings firm Standard & Poor's on Monday cut the credit rating of Greece to ‘selective default’ after banks agreed to write off more than half of their Greek debt holdings in a second EU bailout of th

Standard & Poor's rating agency has downgraded 34 Italian banks.

The banks whose ratings were cut included the country's biggest bank Unicredit, which was downgraded from A to BBB+ with a negative ou

Standard & Poor's carried out a mass downgrade of euro zone countries on Friday, stripping France and Austria of their top-grade AAA ratings in a move that may complicate efforts to solve a two-year o

Standard & Poor's is lowering its unsolicited long-term sovereign credit rating on the Republic of France to 'AA+'. At the same time, we are affirming our unsolicited short-term sovereign credit ratin

Ratings agency Standard and Poor's said Thursday that it had mistakenly announced to some clients a downgrade of France's top 'AAA' credit rating, amid speculation of just such a move.

"As a result o

Standard & Poor's president Deven Sharma is stepping down, its parent company announced Tuesday, just weeks after the credit rating agency cut the US sterling AAA rating and sent global markets into t