Steve Maire | Global Head, IR and Communications |
Ray McDaniel | President and CEO |
Linda Huber | EVP and CFO |
Mark Almeida | President, Moody’s Analytics |
Rob Fauber | President, Moody’s Investors Service |
Toni Kaplan | Morgan Stanley |
Alex Kramm | UBS |
Manav Patnaik | Barclays |
Anj Singh | Credit Suisse |
Tim McHugh | William Blair |
Joseph Foresi | Cantor Fitzgerald |
Craig Huber | Huber Research Partners |
Jeff Silber | BMO Capital Markets |
Conor Fitzgerald | Goldman Sachs |
Bill Warmington | Wells Fargo |
Vincent Hung | Autonomous |
Peter Appert | Piper Jaffray |
Patrick O’Shaughnessy | Raymond James |
Good day. Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the Moody’s Corporation Third Quarter 2017 Earnings Conference. At this time, I would like to inform you that this conference is being recorded and that all participants are in a listen-only mode. At the request of the Company, we will open the conference up for questions and answers following today’s presentation. I will now turn the conference over to Steve Maire, Global Head of Investor Relations and Communications.