S&P GLOBAL

Business information, advisory, and consultation services; Arranging and conducting business conferences, workshops, and exhibitions concerning general news, business and financial information, financial indices, financial and credit ratings, market research, data analytics, stock prices, equity research, investment funds, risk solutions, investment data, and information concerning energy, commodities, shipping, contracting, product and services ratings, and the financial, electronics, healthcare, homes, insurance, telecommunications, travel, and consumer products industries; Providing business information online concerning general news, business and financial information, financial indices, financial and credit ratings, market research, data analytics, stock prices, equity research, investment funds, risk solutions, and investment data, and information concerning energy, commodities, metal pricing and metal market data, shipping, contracting, product and services ratings, and the financial, electronics, healthcare, homes, insurance, telecommunications, travel, and consumer products industries; Market research relating to general news, business and financial information, financial indices, financial and credit ratings, data analytics, stock prices, equity research, investment funds, risk solutions, investment data, and information concerning energy, commodities, metal pricing and metal market data, shipping, contracting, and the financial, electronics, healthcare, homes, insurance, telecommunications, travel, and consumer products industries; Conducting business and market research surveys; Providing on-line retail store services featuring software applications in the field of financial-related data and company data over a global computer network; Providing information, news and commentary in the field of business on the subjects of commodities, energy, metals, and energy generation and production industries; Providing online information, news and commentary in the field of business on the subjects of commodities, energy, metals, and energy generation and production industries; Providing information and news in the field of business, namely, providing real-time information concerning the financial markets, financial indices, and financial ratings; Price comparing services in the field of commodities; Providing and updating financial indices; Providing financial indices in the nature of quantitative measurements to evaluate investments, market trends and financial instruments; providing and updating indexes of securities values; financial data and stock research; providing financial indices of select securities values to enable consumers to evaluate investments and market trends in the securities market

Providing financial information, namely, information in the field of stock indices, securities indices, commodities indices, and other financial indices; Providing financial analyses and ratings of securities, investment funds, bonds, institutions, governments, and other financial instruments regarding performance, creditworthiness, risk assessments, and other characteristics; Providing information, studies, quality ratings, and opinions concerning investment funds; Providing information, studies, quality ratings, and opinions concerning the creditworthiness, performance, and other characteristics of debt instruments and commercial paper, namely, bonds, debentures, shares, warrants, options, investment certificates, and notes of corporations, governments, municipalities, public utilities, financial institutions, and other issuers; Providing financial and investment information via on-line computer databases; Financial and investment information services, research services, data and data analytic services, and financial analyses; Providing real-time information relating to the financial markets; Providing financial information, research, analytics, and analyses regarding companies, industries, and countries; Providing financial information and data in support of merger and acquisition activities; Financial risk management services; Pricing of commodities, namely, commodity quotations; Financial and investment consultation and advisory services; Investment services, namely, investment consultation in the fields of funds, mutual funds, real estate, commodities, capital, securities, bonds, and annuities; Providing financial information, namely, news in the field of financial information on commodities, energy, metals, and energy generation and production industries; Providing online financial information, namely, news in the field of financial information on commodities, energy, metals, and energy generation and production industries; News reporting services in the field of financial news, namely, providing real-time information concerning the financial markets, financial indices, and financial ratings; rating services, namely regarding performance of securities and investments and regarding credit worthiness

Providing online non-downloadable software in connection with ratings of securities, investment funds, bonds, institutions, governments, and other financial instruments; Providing online non-downloadable software for tracking the performance of stock indices, securities indices, commodities indices, other financial indices, financial investments, securities, companies, and institutions; Providing temporary use of online non-downloadable software for providing access to streaming quotes, news, charts, and market views for use by the financial industry; Providing online non-downloadable software to measure, monitor, and manage credit risk, processes, and infrastructure by providing centralized data management, spreading, forecasting, and risk rating assessments