It is reported that Shares of Eclipsys Corp. rose Friday after Standard & Poor’s said it will add the health care software maker’s stock to its S&P SmallCap 600 index. The Atlanta-based company will replace W-H Energy Services Inc. on the index as W-H Energy is being purchased by oilfield services provider Smith International Inc., [...]

Responding the Nabors’ offering worth $750M, Moody’s investors had it reviewed. It is also said that it placed its “A3″ senior unsecured rating for Nabors Industries Ltd. under review for a possible downgrade after the oil and gas driller announced a senior notes offering. The Bermuda-based company said Thursday one of its subsidiaries, Nabors Industries [...]

Worldwide industrial services company Harsco Corporation announced it has successfully completed a bond offering of 5.75%, 10-year senior notes totaling $450 million. The notes were rated A3 by Moody’s and A- by both Standard & Poor’s and Fitch. The managing underwriters of the offering were J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., and Greenwich [...]

Platts, one of the world’s foremost providers of energy and metals information, today announced it is expanding its suite of spot price assessments in global metals to include steel exported from China, specifically hot-rolled coil (HRC) and concrete reinforcing bar (rebar).
“We’re pleased we can answer the steel industry’s call for a reliable source of timely, [...]

Sales at U.S. retailers increased for a third straight month in September as cheaper gasoline put Americans in the mood to spend, a government report is forecast to show this week.
Purchases rose 0.2 percent, matching the rise in August, according to the median estimate of economists in a Bloomberg News survey before the Commerce Department’s [...]

International rating agency Standard & Poor’s said Tuesday it had upgraded its long-term corporate rating for Russian metals producer Norilsk Nickel [RTS: GMK] from BB+ to ÂÂÂ- on the company’s improved performance.
The agency also affirmed the company’s Russia national scale rating at ruAA+. The outlook on the ratings is stable.
S&P credit analyst Elena Anankina said, [...]

For Evy Hambro, who manages the world’s biggest mining fund at Merrill Lynch & Co., small is profitable.
Hambro steered the $6.6 billion fund to the best performance this year among 270 peers tracked by Standard & Poor’s by increasing investments in small and mid-sized companies. Shares of Hambro’s top performers, Perilya Ltd. of Australia and [...]

Consol Energy to Replace Knight-Ridder on S&P 500, RC2 to Join SmallCap 600
Consol Energy Inc., a coal and methane gas producer, will replace newspaper publisher Knight-Ridder Inc. in the Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index, S&P said Thursday.
Knight-Ridder is being acquired by McClatchy Co., another newspaper company, in a deal that is still pending final [...]