On its face this could come across as nefarious, but y couldnt this also just be a coincidence? So s and p says that the report is, in its word, flawed. Maybe there's an element whereby certain companies that would love to be in this 500, maybe some of them do buy credit ratings because they think it might help their chances. It hasn't said, but this is something that they're going to have to explain one way or another.