Chip Merritt | VP, IR |
Douglas Peterson | President and CEO |
Ewout Steenbergen | EVP and CFO |
Hamzah Mazari | Macquarie Research |
Alex Kramm | UBS |
Toni Kaplan | Morgan Stanley |
Manav Patnaik | Barclays |
Craig Huber | Huber Research |
Vincent Hung | Autonomous |
Patrick O'Shaughnessy | Raymond James |
Henry Chien | BMO Capital Markets |
Peter Appert | Piper Jaffray |
Conor Fitzgerald | Goldman Sachs |
Tim McHugh | William Blair |
Shlomo Rosenbaum | Stifel Nicolaus |
Bill Warmington | Wells Fargo |
Good morning, and welcome to S&P Global's Fourth Quarter and Full Year 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.