Chip Merritt | VP, IR |
Douglas Peterson | President and CEO |
Ewout Steenbergen | EVP and CFO |
Greg Bardi | Barclays |
Alex Kramm | UBS |
Jeff Goldstein | Morgan Stanley |
Craig Huber | Huber Research |
Jeff Silber | BMO Capital Markets |
Joseph Foresi | Cantor Fitzgerald |
Peter Appert | Piper Jaffray |
Vincent Hung | Autonomous |
Trevor Romeo | William Blair |
Conor Fitzgerald | Goldman Sachs |
Patrick O'Shaughnessy | Raymond James |
Good morning and welcome to S&P Global's First 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 question-and-answer session after the presentation and instructions will follow at that time. To access the webcast slides, go to investor.spglobal.com, that is investor.spglobal.com and click on the link to the Quarterly Earnings Webcast.