Last week's trivia answer

Founded in 1888, I'm a financial services, education, and information and media services giant. My Standard & Poor's division offers credit ratings on more than 220,000 securities and funds worldwide, indexes for benchmarking, independent investment analysis and more. I'm a major K-12 publisher in America, and I publish BusinessWeek magazine. I bought Standard & Poor's in 1966 and television stations in 1972. American Express tried to take over me in 1979. I'm a rare company, with fully funded pensions - and dividends that have been increased annually for 34 years. I take in $6 billion annually. Who am I?

(Answer: McGraw-Hill)

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