Chip Merritt | Vice President of Investor Relations |
Douglas Peterson | President and Chief Executive Officer |
Ewout Steenbergen | Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer |
Peter Appert | Piper Jaffray |
Joseph Foresi | Cantor Fitzgerald |
Conor Fitzgerald | Goldman Sachs |
Toni Kaplan | Morgan Stanley |
Alex Kramm | UBS |
Hamzah Mazari | Macquarie Research |
Manav Patnaik | Barclays Capital |
Anjaneya Singh | Credit Suisse |
Jeffrey Silber | BMO Capital Markets |
Bill Warmington | Wells Fargo |
Craig Huber | Huber Research |
James Friedman | Susquehanna Financial Group |
Good morning, and welcome to S&P Global's Third Quarter 2017 Earnings Conference Call. I'd like to inform you that this call is being recorded for broadcast. All participants are in a listen-only mode.
We will open the conference to questions-and-answers after the presentation, and instructions will follow at that time. To access the webcast and slides, go to investor.spglobal.com, that is investor.spglobal.com and click on the link for the quarterly earnings webcast [Operator Instructions].