History

By Henry [Varnum] the Pur (Henry Of varnum Of poor) published “the history of railroads and channels of the United States” (The Of history of Of railroads and Canals of of the Of united Of states) in 1860, when railroads were the basic means of the propagation of industrial revolution through the territory of the USA. This publication became the authoritative reference book of investors opposite the financial state of railroad companies. The basic principle of the reference publications of firm “[Purz]” on questions of investments it was “right of investor down the information”.

In 1906 for was created statistical bureau “standard” (Standard Of statistics Of bureau). It for the first time began for the sake of the task of allowing financial information about the American companies in 1916 “standard Of [statistiks]” it began to appropriate credit ratings to the bonds of companies, and soon after this - and the ratings of sovereign bills. The ratings of municipal bonds appeared in 1940.

In 1941 “[Purz] Of [pablishing]” and “standard Of [statistiks]” merged, forming corporation “standard and [Purz]”. In 1966 “standard and [Purz]” was acquired by corporation “[Makgrou]- Hill [Kompaniz], Incas.” (McGraw-Hill Of companies, Inc.), by the universal organization of information services, which operates markets in the region of formation, business, commercial of finances and professional services. Before the corporation “[Makgrou]- Hill [Kompaniz], Incas.” work 16500 people, who are placed before more than 400 departments in 30 countries. The volume of sales was in 1999 4 billion dollars of the USA.

At present “standard and [Purz]” consists of two basic structural subdivisions - rating service (Ratings Of services) and information service (Information Of services), task of which is the guarantee of the integrated world leadership before the assignment of the independent high-quality analytical services and information at the point of the world financial markets.