Interviews - Indices

S&P Launches Municipal Yield Index

Standard & Poor’s, announced that it has expanded its family of municipal bond indices with the launch of the S&P Municipal Yield Index. The S&P Municipal Yield Index is a market value-weighted index that seeks to provide a measure of an investing strategy used in the municipal market that allocates a different percentage to bonds rated below investment grade and non-rated bonds than to bonds rated investment grade........

Stoxx launches country subindices for France, Italy and Spain

STOXX Limited announced the launch of the EURO STOXX 50 Subindex France, EURO STOXX 50 Subindex Italy and EURO STOXX 50 Subindex Spain. The new country indices are subsets of the flagship EURO STOXX 50 Index, representing all French, Italian and Spanish companies from the EURO STOXX 50 Index, respectively......

Stoxx changes composition of benchmark indices

Results of the Third Regular Quarterly Review to be Effective on September 20 ,2010.....

S&P launches S&P International Preferred Stock Index

Move creates first benchmark for international preference shares....

S&P Launches S&P/TSX North American Preferred Stock Index

Designed to serve as an investable benchmark covering the preferred share market across Canada and the United States, Standard & Poor’s - the world’s leading index provider - launched today the S&P/TSX North American Preferred Stock Index. The Index seeks to provide investors with the opportunity to achieve broad diversification and exposure to North American preferred stocks....