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...The boom in debt issuance by corporate America has been good to S&P Global, the largest credit rating agency. Its shares have jumped a fifth in 2020, far outpacing its namesake S&P 500 index....
...It is an indicator of a firm’s health, monitored on screens by profit-seeking traders who look at moments of crisis such as this for clues as to how ill the patient might be....
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