Chip Merritt | SVP of IR |
Doug Peterson | President and CEO |
Ewout Steenbergen | EVP and CFO |
Manav Patnaik | Barclays |
Alex Kramm | UBS |
Toni Kaplan | Morgan Stanley |
Bill Warmington | Wells Fargo |
Tim McHugh | William Blair & Company |
George Tong | Goldman Sachs |
Craig Huber | Huber Research Partners |
Dan Dolev | Nomura |
Henry Chen | BMO |
Michael Cho | JPMorgan |
Good morning and welcome to S&P Global's Second Quarter 2019 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions]
I would now like to introduce Mr. Chip Merritt, Senior Vice President of Investor Relations for S&P Global. Sir, you may begin.