Interview with Sam Stovall

As chief investment strategist of our Equity Research Group, Sam Stovall serves as analyst, publisher and communicator of S and P's outlooks for the economy, market, sectors and stocks. He is the Chairman of the S and P Investment Policy Committee, where he focuses on market history and valuations, as well as sector and industry momentum strategies. Sam is the author of The Seven Rules of Wall Street which was published in February 2009, as well as The Standard and Poor's Guide to Sector Investing. He also writes a weekly investment piece, "Stovall's Sector Watch," on www.AdvisorInsight.com, which focuses on market/sector history, as well as sector/industry momentum. Sam joined Standard and Poor's (S and P) in April 1989. Prior to S and P, he served as Editor In Chief at Argus Research, an independent investment research firm in New York City. Sam received an M.B.A. in Finance from New York University and a B.A. in History/Education from Muhlenberg College, in Allentown, Pa. He is also a Certified Financial Planner