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S&P Global Inc. (NYSE: SPGI) is a finance and insurance sector company that describes its mission as providing essential intelligence through credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions. The SPGI news stream highlights how the company’s data and insights intersect with capital markets, commodities, energy transition, artificial intelligence and the automotive sector.
News about S&P Global often covers corporate actions and capital allocation, such as Board-approved dividend increases and the company’s long history of annual dividend payments. Updates can also include announcements about planned or completed transactions, such as the sale of specific businesses or the expected separation of the S&P Global Mobility division into an independent public company.
Another key theme in SPGI news is research and market studies. For example, S&P Global has released a detailed study on copper in the age of AI, examining how electrification, digitalization, data centers and defense spending could affect copper supply and demand through 2040. These reports draw on proprietary data and cross-divisional expertise from areas such as S&P Global Energy and Market Intelligence.
News items also highlight regulatory and governance developments, including settlements involving S&P Global Ratings and the appointment of new directors to the company’s Board. In addition, readers will find coverage of philanthropic and workforce initiatives like the StepForward program, which focuses on AI-enabled workforce readiness for youth, and updates from CARFAX, part of S&P Global Mobility, on topics such as odometer fraud trends.
Investors, analysts and other stakeholders can use the SPGI news page to follow how S&P Global’s ratings, indices, research, financing activities and governance decisions evolve over time and how the company positions itself around themes such as AI, energy transition and global capital markets.
SPGI (S&P 500 buybacks) reported Q3 2025 share repurchases of $249.0 billion, up 6.2% QoQ and 9.9% YoY. The 12-month period ending September 2025 reached a record $1.020 trillion (up 11.1% vs prior 12 months). Key sector gains: Health Care buybacks +32.2% and Financials +26.3% vs Q2 2025; Materials and Real Estate cut spending by 21.0% and 40.3% respectively. The 1% net buyback excise tax reduced Q3 operating earnings by 0.36% and As Reported earnings by 0.41%. Total shareholder returns (buybacks + dividends) were $417.1 billion for Q3 2025 and a 12-month record $1.685 trillion.
S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI) launched StepForward, a three-year philanthropic initiative committing $10 million to prepare youth for an AI-enabled workforce. The program will award grants to international and regional nonprofits focused on workforce readiness and AI upskilling, and will leverage S&P Global's data, analytics and technology expertise.
StepForward will expand employee skills-based volunteering, announce grant awards in 2026, and build on prior AI education efforts including company training and external partnerships.
CARFAX (SPGI) reports a sharp rise in suspected odometer rollbacks: roughly 2.45 million vehicles nationwide, a 14% increase year-over-year. CARFAX says average loss in resale value for affected vehicles is about $3,300. The company links higher digital odometer tampering to inexpensive tools and more frequent electronic mileage records that can reveal discrepancies.
States with the largest year-over-year increases include Montana +33%, Tennessee +30%, Arkansas +28%, Oklahoma +25%, Kansas +24%, New Jersey +21%, and Florida +20%. The release urges buyers to check vehicle history reports, VIN odometer checks, and get mechanic inspections.
S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI) announced the appointment of Hubert Joly to its Board of Directors, effective January 2, 2026.
Joly is former chair and CEO of Best Buy, former president and CEO of Carlson, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, a board member of Johnson & Johnson, and a trustee of the New York Public Library. He will serve on the Board's Audit and Compensation and Leadership Development Committees.
Company leaders said Joly's leadership and change-management experience will support S&P Global's technology-led transformation and client-facing intelligence services.
S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI) named Matt Calderone as Chief Financial Officer of its Mobility business, effective upon joining by March 1, 2026. Calderone will serve as CFO of the standalone public company through the planned separation and oversee all Finance functions, reporting to Bill Eager, President of S&P Global Mobility and CEO-designate.
The announcement lists the full Mobility executive team and states S&P Global expects to complete the separation within 12 to 18 months from the separation announcement, subject to customary legal and regulatory approvals, including Board sign-off and the Form 10 being declared effective by the SEC.
TPM26 by S&P Global (SPGI) will convene global shipping and supply chain leaders March 1–4, 2026 in Long Beach, California, focusing on cost reduction and resilience amid rising tariff pressure. The conference opens with a keynote conversation featuring Janet L. Yellen in dialogue with Carlos Pascual. S&P Global Market Intelligence data cited shows average U.S. tariff rates now exceed 17%, up from 2.4% a year earlier, underscoring the event's emphasis on margin protection, smarter sourcing, and risk-aware cost optimization.
Confirmed speakers include senior executives from Hapag-Lloyd, Maersk, Flexport, DHL Global Forwarding, and Ocean Network Express. TPM Academy returns with practical workshops on tariff strategies, AI in supply chains, and near-shoring.
Corebridge Financial (NYSE:CRBG) will be added to the S&P MidCap 400 prior to the open on Dec 17, 2025, replacing Allete (NYSE:ALE), which will be deleted on the same date.
The change follows an announced acquisition of Allete by Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Global Infrastructure Partners, which is expected to close soon pending final conditions.
S&P Global Energy (NYSE:SPGI) hosted the 27th Platts Global Energy Awards on Dec 11, 2025 in New York, honoring industry performance across 21 categories with winners from 10 countries.
Highlights: Cheniere won Energy Company of the Year, Chief Executive of the Year (Jack Fusco) and Excellence in Energy – LNG; LONGi and Williams received Lifetime Achievement honors; LONGi also won a Corporate Impact Award for a solar-powered health project in Mozambique.
GEP Global Supply Chain Volatility Index (SPGI) shows global supply chains remained underutilized in November 2025, with the headline index at -0.29, signalling slack capacity heading into 2026.
Regionally, North America recorded the sharpest pullback (index -0.53), Europe stayed weak at -0.33, Asia eased to -0.16 while the UK improved to -0.20. Inventory and material shortage trackers remain low, transportation costs are near historical averages, and stockpiling activity is historically low. The report notes limited near-term purchasing cost pressures outside tariff effects and forecasts a buyers' market into 2026.
S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI) announced a multi-year strategic partnership with Google Cloud on Dec 10, 2025 to accelerate enterprise-wide AI, agentic capabilities, data distribution and workflow automation. The collaboration will unify S&P Global's proprietary data on BigQuery for AI-ready distribution and expand agentic offerings on Gemini Enterprise, including integration of a Kensho-developed Data Retrieval Agent. The initiative aims to boost internal productivity and deliver faster, citation-backed insights to customers while fitting into S&P Global's multi-cloud strategy.
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