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S&P Global Inc. (NYSE: SPGI) is a leading provider of essential financial intelligence, empowering governments, businesses, and individuals with the right data, expertise, and connected technology to make decisions confidently. As the largest of the Big Three credit rating agencies, S&P Global provides a wide array of services including credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics, and workflow solutions that cater to the global capital, commodity, and automotive markets.
S&P Global Ratings is renowned for its financial research and analysis on stocks, bonds, and commodities. This segment remains the largest credit rating agency worldwide and is pivotal to the company’s profitability. Another significant segment, Market Intelligence, offers desktop, data, and advisory solutions, primarily targeting the financial services industry with platforms like Capital IQ Pro. This division was recently bolstered by the acquisition of Visible Alpha, enhancing its investment research and analytics capabilities.
In addition to these core areas, S&P Global encompasses Commodity Insights (including Platts), Mobility (with Carfax), and Indices (featuring the S&P 500® and Dow Jones Industrial Average®). The company's commitment to innovation and market leadership is further demonstrated through its strategic partnerships and acquisitions, such as the integration with CarNow to enhance automotive data analytics and customer engagement.
Recent news highlights include the integration of DigitalOcean Holdings Inc. into the S&P SmallCap 600, the enhanced oil sands production outlook by S&P Global Commodity Insights, and the strategic partnership between automotiveMastermind and CarNow. Moreover, the company's surveys and reports, like the one conducted with AARP on adult caregiving, showcase its role in addressing contemporary societal challenges.
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A new report from AARP and S&P Global highlights challenges faced by US family caregivers in balancing work and caregiving duties. The 2023 survey of 1,200 caregivers employed at large companies reveals that 67% struggle with caregiving responsibilities, leading many to reduce work hours, decline promotions, or change jobs. As the population of adults over 65 grows, supportive employer policies are essential. Key findings include lower satisfaction among caregivers without children, higher discrimination against remote workers, and increased difficulties due to inflation. Most caregivers provide over 20 hours of unpaid care weekly, contributing $600 billion annually in unpaid labor.
S&P Global Commodity Insights, a division of S&P Global, announced its acquisition of World Hydrogen Leaders, a leading organizer of hydrogen-related conferences and events. This acquisition enhances S&P Global's portfolio of global conferences and complements its offerings in Energy Transition data and insights. World Hydrogen Leaders is known for its premier events in the hydrogen sector, including the flagship World Hydrogen Week. The acquisition aligns with the projected growth in hydrogen supply, expected to nearly triple by 2050. Financial terms were not disclosed.
automotiveMastermind announced a strategic partnership with CarNow to enhance dealership consumer experiences. This collaboration leverages first-party data to provide real-time actionable insights, improving customer engagement and personalized marketing. Over the last 15 months, automotiveMastermind has formed multiple successful integrations, including Reynolds & Reynolds, Tekion, Elead/CDK, and Dealer Socket. The new integration with CarNow aims to modernize the consumer shopping journey by connecting dealers' operational systems, enhancing tracking, and providing predictive models for online vehicle sales. The enhanced functionality will be available to dealer partners later this year.
Global supply chains are currently operating near full capacity, indicating a positive outlook for the manufacturing sector. The GEP Global Supply Chain Volatility Index rose in April, showing increased demand and activity in the Asian market, tightening capacity in North America, and improved conditions in Europe. Global transportation costs have risen slightly, following an increase in oil prices.
S&P Global Commodity Insights has raised its 10-year oil sands production outlook for Canadian oil sands, with production expected to reach 3.8 million barrels per day by 2030, representing a 3% increase from the previous forecast. The increased projection is attributed to producers' focus on maximizing existing assets through efficiency and optimization projects. However, challenges such as export capacity constraints and potential impacts of federal emission caps may affect the long-term growth of oil sands production.
Chinese banks maintained their dominance in the global largest lender rankings of 2023 despite a downturn in the property sector. Industrial and Commercial Bank of China remained the world's largest bank, with assets of $6.3 trillion. Agricultural Bank of China surpassed China Construction Bank Corp. to claim second place, with 14.5% loan growth in 2023, showcasing the continued strength of China's banking sector. In the Asia-Pacific region, seven of the eight Japanese banks on the list fell in the ranking. India-based HDFC Bank newly entered the list at 74th position. Among U.S. banks, JPMorgan Chase & Co. remained the fifth-largest bank in the world. European banks also experienced weaker loan growth in 2023, with some of the biggest banks shedding assets.
S&P Global's President and CEO, Doug Peterson, will be participating in the Barclays Americas Select Franchise Conference on May 7, 2024, in London, UK. The session will be webcast, with Mr. Peterson scheduled to speak from 1:30 p.m. to 2:10 p.m. BST.
Pirum and S&P Global Market Intelligence Cappitech have extended their collaboration to cover upcoming SEC 10c-1a regulation, building on the success of their SFTR solution. The new reporting solution will assist clients in meeting reporting obligations efficiently and streamline the process. The collaboration aims to provide a comprehensive and reliable solution to ensure clients' compliance with the new regulation.
S&P Dow Jones Indices reported the February 2024 results for the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indices, showing a strong upward trend in U.S. home prices. With various metro markets reporting price increases, the National Home Price NSA Index saw a 6.4% annual gain. The 10-City Composite and 20-City Composite also showed significant year-over-year increases. San Diego led in gains, while markets like San Francisco experienced declines. Despite economic uncertainty, home prices are at all-time highs, driven by buyer behavior supported by lower mortgage rates.
S&P Global has successfully completed the acquisition of Visible Alpha, a financial technology provider, enhancing its fundamental investment research capabilities. The integration of Visible Alpha into S&P Capital IQ Pro aims to provide customers with high-quality investment research, estimates, and analytics. The acquisition is seen as a transformative leap for the platform, with Visible Alpha's offerings enriching S&P Global Market Intelligence's division.
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