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Standard & Poor's Rings the NASDAQ Stock Market Closing Bell
June 29, 2009 - Standard & Poor's
About this Marketsite Event:

Standard & Poor's, a subsidiary of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE:MHP), visits the NASDAQ MarketSite in New York City's Times Square to launch MarketScope(r) Advisor.

Recognizing financial advisors' need for comprehensive wealth management research, Standard & Poor's Equity Research Services has created a platform to provide actionable investment intelligence and tools on multiple asset classes. Standard & Poor's will provide expanded coverage across the entire wealth management spectrum of products and asset classes including stocks, ETFs, mutual funds, variable annuities, and fixed income.

In addition to expanded asset class coverage, MarketScope Advisor will provide interactive tools such as alerts, watchlists and hypothetical and model portfolios that enable advisors to stay connected to the market and their investments.  MSA also includes analytical tools that allow for combined screening of quantitative and qualitative elements that are valuable for asset selection and diversified portfolio investing.  MarketScope Advisor can be customized by Advisors and integrates seamlessly into the work environment, offering added benefits of portability and flexibility.

Andrea Remyn, Managing Director of S&P presides over the Closing Bell.

Ms. Remyn and others will be available to discuss the introduction of the new MarketScope Advisor platform, its multi-asset class approach and end of the global settlement for independent equity research.

About Standard & Poor's Equity Research Services

As the world's largest producer of independent equity research, Standard & Poor's licenses its research to over 1,000 institutions for their investors and advisors, including 19 of the top 20 securities firms, 13 of the top 20 banks, and 11 of the top 20 life insurance companies. Standard & Poor's team of 100 experienced U.S., European and Asian equity analysts use a fundamental, bottom-up approach to assess a global universe of approximately 2,000 equities across more than 150 sub-industries worldwide. Follow Standard & Poor's equity analysts'
U.S. market commentary each day at
http://www.equityresearch.standardandpoors.com/.

The equity research reports and recommendations provided by Standard & Poor's Equity Research Services are performed separately from any other analytic activity of Standard & Poor's. Standard & Poor's Equity Research Services has no access to non-public information received by other units of Standard & Poor's. Standard & Poor's does not trade for its own account. The analytical and ethical conduct of Standard & Poor's equity analysts is governed by the firm's Research Objectivity Policy, a copy of which may also be found at www.standardandpoors.com.

About Standard & Poor's

Standard & Poor's, a subsidiary of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE:MHP), is the world's foremost provider of independent credit ratings, indices, risk evaluation, investment research and data. With offices in 23 countries and markets, Standard & Poor's is an essential part of the world's financial infrastructure and has played a leading role for more than 150 years in providing investors with the independent benchmarks they need to feel more confident about their investment and financial decisions. For more information, visit http://www.standardandpoors.com.

About NASDAQ OMX:

The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. is the world's largest exchange company. It delivers trading, exchange technology and public company services across six continents, with over 3,900 listed companies. NASDAQ OMX Group offers multiple capital raising solutions to companies around the globe, including its U.S. listings market; NASDAQ OMX Nordic, NASDAQ OMX Baltic, including First North; and the U.S. 144A sector. The company offers trading across multiple asset classes including equities, derivatives, debt, commodities, structured products and ETFs.

NASDAQ OMX Group technology supports the operations of over 70 exchanges, clearing organizations and central securities depositories in more than 50 countries. NASDAQ OMX Nordic and NASDAQ OMX Baltic are not legal entities but describe the common offering from NASDAQ OMX Group exchanges in Helsinki, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Iceland, Tallinn, Riga, and Vilnius. For more information about NASDAQ OMX, visit http://www.nasdaqomx.com.

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