{"id":32273,"date":"2006-09-19T13:11:56","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T17:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prefblog.com\/?p=113"},"modified":"2006-09-19T13:11:56","modified_gmt":"2006-09-19T17:11:56","slug":"sp-inaugurates-us-preferred-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/?p=32273","title":{"rendered":"S&amp;P Inaugurates US Preferred Index!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.standardandpoors.com\/spf\/pdf\/index\/091506_PFDSTKIndex.doc\">a press release<\/a>, S&#038;P is commencing the publication of\u00a0 an index &#8220;designed to serve the investment community\u2019s need for an investable benchmark representing the approximately $200 billion U.S. preferred stock market. The S&#038;P U.S. Preferred Stock Index includes preferred stocks issued by U.S. entities that meet criteria relating to minimum size, liquidity, exchange listing, and time-to-maturity. The index currently has 44 constituents, and an indicated yield of 6.48%.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well! It&#8217;s nice to have competition, although their index is US only! There is more information via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.preferredstock.standardandpoors.com\/\">http:\/\/www.preferredstock.standardandpoors.com\/<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--df8cdd9bb69afa00e7b5fe428904122f--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to\u00a0a press release, S&#038;P is commencing the publication of\u00a0 an index &#8220;designed to serve the investment community\u2019s need for an investable benchmark representing the approximately $200 billion U.S. preferred stock market. The S&#038;P U.S. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}