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NASHVILLE, Tenn.–(Business Wire)–GE Transportation, a unit of the General Electric Company, announced today thatit has launched the Connection line of Positive Train Control (PTC) compliantproducts for rail networks operating in the United States. For moreinformation, visit http:// & Poor’sDavid R. Guarino, Standard & Poor’s, Communications, +1-212-438-1471,. Its family of indices includes the S&P 500, an index with$1.5 trillion invested and $4.85 trillion benchmarked, and the S&P Global1200, a composite index comprised of seven regional and country headlineindices.

For more information, please visit About Standard & Poor’sStandard & Poor’s, a subsidiary of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP), isthe world’s foremost provider of independent credit ratings, indices, riskevaluation, investment research and data. Commercial Paper IndexCommittee reserves the right to exercise discretion, when necessary The S&P U.S. Commercial Paper Index is widely diversified and includes 901constituents from more than 160 issuers. The Index consists of 60% financialissuers and 40% non-financial issuers.For more information, please visit: Standard & Poor’s Index ServicesStandard & Poor’s Index Services, the world’s leading index provider,maintains a wide variety of investable and benchmark indices to meet an arrayof investor needs.

“With the launchof our two sub indices today, Standard & Poor’s has captured two areas of thiscritical component of the capital markets, bringing greater transparency intothe commercial paper market for non-financial and financial issuers.”The headline S&P U.S. Commercial Paper Index consists of commercial paper withone-to-three month maturities issued by corporate issuers, both financial andnon-financial Asset-backed commercial paper issues are excluded. Issuersincluded in the index must have a commercial paper program of at least $2billion. Index constituents are weighted on a tiered basis based on the maximum programsize The Index is rules based, although the S&P U.S.

Commercial Paper Financials Index consists ofcommercial paper from issuers classified by Standard & Poor’s as beingfinancial institutions. The Indices are the first of their type to be offeredby a major index provider.”There are three key segments to the commercial paper market: non-financialissuers, financial issuers and asset backed commercial paper,” says JR Rieger,Vice President of Fixed Income Indices at Standard & Poor’s. Commercial Paper Non-Financials Index consists of commercialpaper from issuers classified by Standard & Poor’s as being from non-financialinstitutions.The S&P U.S. Commercial Paper Index isa broad based index that measures the performance of the U.S. commercial papermarket, and is part of Standard & Poor’s growing family of fixed incomeindices.The S&P U.S. Commercial PaperIndicesNEW YORK, May 19 /PRNewswire/ — Adding greater transparency into the U.S mercial paper market, Standard & Poor’s — the world’s leading indexprovider — announced today the launch of financial and non-financialcommercial paper sub indices The headline S&P U.S.

S&P Launches Financial and Non-Financial Versions of its U.S. Heineken has come under pressure after the purchase due thesharp decline in the British beer market, and Blood was one ofonly a few former S&N senior managers to keep their jobs underthe new Heineken regime. The Dutch brewer said in a statement that a successor toBlood will be announced shortly and in the interim the existingmanagement will run the business on a day-to-day basis reportingdirectly to Heineken’s head of Western Europe Didier Debrosse (Reporting by David Jones; Editing by Hans Peters). LONDON, May 19 (Reuters) – Dutch brewer Heineken (HEIN.AS)on Tuesday said the head of its British business Jeremy Blood isstepping down as managing director of Scottish & Newcastle (S&N)UK and will leave the group immediately for personal reasons. Blood was appointed as head of S&N UK in December 2007 andthen re-confirmed in the post when Heineken took over S&N’s UKbusiness in April 2008 in a deal whereby Heineken and Carlsbergsplit up the British brewer of Fosters and Kronenbourg beers. Periodic face-to-face meetings help tofoster the strong personal relationships that make Council participation sucha powerful ongoing resource for today’s busy executives who need a source ofimmediate trusted feedback.Council participation is available exclusively to member companies of TheConference Board.SOURCEThe Conference BoardFrank Tortorici, +1-212-339-0231, . These highlyinteractive members-only networks facilitate ongoing interaction,communication and benchmarking among leaders from the world’s top companies.Each group is a unique member-driven forum enhanced by the vast resources ofThe Conference Board, including its research, economics, conferences, workinggroups, webcasts and special events.