MANHATTAN — Twitter was abuzz Tuesday afternoon after users said a plane flew by Standard and Poor's downtown offices carrying a harsh message for the Wall Street credit ratings agency.
"Thanks for the downgrade," read the banner being dragged by the plane, according to Tweets. "You should all be fired."
Fortune reported that the plane was paid for by an unnamed broker from St. Louis, who initially wanted it to fly over the nation's capitol.
"I originally wanted to fly it over Washington, D.C., but learned that you can't do that," the unamed woman told Fortune. "So I chose Wall Street instead, but didn't specifically intend it to fly over S&P."
S&P, which is headquarted at 55 Water St., made the controversial decision to downgrade the U.S. credit rating from AAA to AA+ last week, precipitating the steepest one-day stock market drop since 2008 on Monday.
The stock market soared on Tuesday, with a 429-point gain, after the Federal Reserve announced it would guarantee very low interest rates for two more years, according to reports.
