La noticia:
Deven Sharma is stepping down as president of Standard & Poor’s only weeks after the rating agency issued an unprecedented downgrade of the credit of the US, according to people familiar with the matter.
Mr Sharma will remain as an adviser to S&P’s owner, McGraw-Hill, for four months and leave the company at the end of the year, they said.
Mr Sharma will be replaced as S&P president by Douglas Peterson, chief operating officer of Citibank, the banking unit of Citigroup, they said.
Ponen al COO de Citi, un banco quebrado. A partir de ahora S&P va a establecer una nueva categoría, la cuádruple A para cualquier activo financiero dudoso.
Lehman revisited.