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Standard & Poor's, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., is the nation's leading securities information company. It provides the respected Standard & Poor's ratings and stock rankings, advisory services, data guides, and the most closely watched and widely reported gauges of stock market activity--the S&P 500, S&P MidCap 400, S&P SmallCap 600, and S&P Composite 1500 stock price indices. Divisions of Standard & Poor's operate independently of each other. Standard & Poor's(R), S&P(R), S&P 500(R) are registered trademarks of the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.