Bangkok--22 Jun--Standard & Poor's S&P to Preview Q2 Earnings and Provide Q3/Q4 Insights During June 25th Teleconference Leading economic and investment strategists from Standard & Poor's Index Services and Equity Research Services will hold a teleconference on Monday, June 25 at 10:00 a.m. EDT to offer their Q2 earnings forecast and assess investment conditions and opportunities through year-end 2007. Hosted by William Glasgall, Vice President of Content Management & Development at Standard & Poor's, the review will include guidance on what to expect from earnings during Q3/Q4 and provide investors with actionable investment intelligence on sectors and companies to watch.WHAT: As the housing market continues slowing and foreign economies maintain strong growth, the S&P analytical and investment strategy team will examine investment opportunities with the following ideas in mind: - Is the economy's "soft landing" completed? - How do earnings on the S&P 500 look for Q2, and the rest of 2007? - What drove returns in the past one and five years? - Now that the S&P 500 has set an all-time high, is the end of the bull market at hand? - What sectors are hot, and which are not? - Are foreign economies and currencies strong enough to support continued international outperformance? - What companies should investors be looking at, and why? Questions will be taken from teleconference participants after a brief presentation by each of the panelists.WHO: Standard & Poor's Roundtable Panelists: - Howard Silverblatt, Standard & Poor's Senior Index Analyst - Sam Stovall, Standard & Poor's Chief Investment Strategist - Alec Young, Standard & Poor's International Equity Strategist - Stephen Biggar, Standard & Poor's Director of U.S. Equity Research - William Glasgall, Standard & Poor's Vice President of Content Management & DevelopmentWHY: Attendees will gain perspective from Standard & Poor's, a leader in financial market intelligence. This will include unprecedented access to the data, knowledge and research that drives investment actions, and is regularly found in Standard & Poor's The Outlook and through its MarketScope Advisor platform.WHEN: Monday, June 25, 2007 at 10:00 a.m. EDT, for one hour. Event Details: Click here to register for the event. One hour of CFP continuing education credit is available for this event.About Standard & Poor's Index Services Standard & Poor's Index Services, the world's leading index provider, maintains a wide variety of investable and benchmark indices to meet an array of investor needs. Its family of indices includes the S&P 500, an index with $1.26 trillion invested and $4.45 trillion benchmarked, and the S&P Global 1200, a composite index comprised of seven regional and country headline indices. For more information, please visit www.standardandpoors.com/indices .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 120 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 on 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 or by clicking here. For further information contact: Jeff Sexton, Communications Tel.: 212-438-3448 [email protected]