The Standard and Poor's 500 fell two points to 1, 500, trimming its advance for the month to 5.2 percent.
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.
Financial markets in Europe, the US and the Far East continue to fall after after the credit ratings agency Standard and Poor's downgraded Greek debt to "junk" status and there are fears that the crisis could spread to other EU economies.
That is five percentage points higher than it was a few weeks ago, before the ratings agency Standard and Poor's cut them to "junk" status, as part of that mass downgrade of eurozone countries on 13 January.
The reasons given by Standard and Poor's for warning that it may downgrade the credit ratings of all but one of the eurozone's member governments - the exception being Greece, which already has an exceptionally low junk rating - are in a sense uncontroversial.
Ditto for whether the absolute standard of living of the poor and middle class improves or declines.
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".
And that entrepreneurship can also generate profits and improve the standard of living of millions of poor by improving their health and reducing poverty.
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The report went on to say the building was badly maintained and the environment was of a poor standard.
The first security feature attached to the B standard was called Wired Equivalency Protocol and it was pretty poor from the get-go.
It was the strongest performer on the Standard Poor's 500-stock index on Tuesday, and has gained 95% this year.
Stoke-on-Trent City Council said the changes were because of the city's education was not up to standard, and because of declining pupil numbers and the poor condition of old school buildings.
Standard and Poor's affirmed the financial strength of MBIA and Ambac shortly before the market closed on Monday.
These will turn into losses if the stockmarket falls another 20%, reckons Standard and Poor's, a credit-rating agency.
"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.
Credit ratings agency Standard and Poor's downgraded the company's creditworthiness in May.
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 OECD and IMF have both warned of the need for a credible plan to bring the budget into balance, and ratings agency Standard and Poor's has said it is putting Britain's AAA credit rating on review until such a plan emerges.
Remember that in August Standard and Poor's downgraded the US, not because of its economic prospects but because of how near it came to not agreeing a budget and the danger that revealed of "governance and policymaking becoming less stable, less effective, and less predictable".
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.
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.
But high triglycerides and low HDL the other components that are measured in a standard cholesterol blood test are a hallmark reflection of the poor diets and sedentary lifestyles that researchers say are behind the wide prevalence of obesity among both children and adults.
The World Health Organisation has now declared it to be the technological standard, and DataDyne is in the process of loading it onto ordinary mobile phones for use in poor countries everywhere, says Joel Selanikio, a doctor who co-founded the organisation.
David Wyss, chief economist at Standard and Poor's, said the timing puts the figure under question.
AMs heard evidence that the standard of hospital catering and patient nutrition in many cases was poor and that the problem was widespread.
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.
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