What a pleasant surprise. I was positive S&P would get strongarmed into the bamboozle like Nasdaq but it seems they have a bit more integrity. Good for them.

I think key difference here is that Nasdaq is also the market. Where as S&P is external. From this view them manipulating their own market which they profit in various ways actually is somewhat more questionable...

Incentives are entirely different. And really now I am starting to think that Nasdaq maybe should not have index it runs in the first place...