Chip Merritt | VP, IR |
Doug Peterson | President and CEO |
Ewout Steenbergen | EVP and CFO |
Hamzah Mazari | Macquarie Capital |
Alex Kramm | UBS |
Toni Kaplan | Morgan Stanley |
Manav Patnaik | Barclays Capital |
Jeff Silber | BMO Capital Markets |
Peter Appert | Piper Jaffray |
Craig Huber | Huber Research Partners |
Mike Reid | Cantor Fitzgerald |
Trevor Romeo | William Blair and Company |
Vincent Hung | Autonomous |
Good morning and welcome to S&P Global Second Quarter 2018 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.