Standard & Poor's Compustat(R) Expands Coverage in Taiwan, India

Standard & Poor's Compustat(R) Expands Coverage in Taiwan, India

May 30, 2007

Compustat's Company Data Grows to 17,500 Firms, Adding 500
Businesses in India and 900 in Taiwan, Helping Clients Who
Need Indian and Taiwanese Company Information for Their
Financial Analysis


    NEW YORK, May 30 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- In response to
growing customer demand for more fundamental information on
Asian companies, Standard & Poor's, the leading provider
of financial market intelligence, announced that
Compustat(R) has expanded significantly its company
coverage in Taiwan and India.

    Compustat has added approximately 500 active Indian
companies, including between five and 10 years of company
history.  Compustat has also entered an agreement with TX
Investment Consulting Company (TX), a data provider in
Beijing, to receive extensive fundamental data for an
additional 900 companies in Taiwan. The initial set of
Taiwanese data will provide two-to-three years of annual
history, including one year of semiannual history, and is
expected to grow to five years of history by this summer. 
The addition of Taiwan-based companies brings Compustat's
overall market cap coverage for the Asian market to over
90%.

    "Institutional money managers and analysts around
the world who use Compustat's vital company, index and
industry information to support their financial models and
analysis, will appreciate the additional company coverage
in Taiwan and India," said Chandra Muliadikara,
Compustat Product Manager. "Our partnerships with the
data providers of the Indian and Taiwanese company data
enable us to capitalize on their expertise and deliver a
more robust database to our clients."

    For more information, visit
http://www.standardandpoors.com or call 800-523-4534.  

    About Compustat Data

    Standard & Poor's Compustat(R) data is used by
institutional money managers and analysts around the world.
With fundamental and market data on 65,000 global
securities, Compustat provides vital company, index and
industry information that supports financial models and
proprietary company and industry analysis. 

    About Standard & Poor's

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Companies (NYSE: MHP), is the world's foremost provider of
financial market intelligence, including independent credit
ratings, indices, risk evaluation, investment research and
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owned affiliates, located in 21 countries, Standard &
Poor's is an essential part of the world's financial
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