Item 9B. Other Information

IRAN THREAT REDUCTION AND SYRIA HUMAN RIGHTS ACT DISCLOSURE

Pursuant to Section 219 of the Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act of 2012, which amended the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, an issuer is required to disclose in its annual or quarterly reports, as applicable, whether, during the reporting period, it or any of its affiliates knowingly engaged in certain activities, transactions or dealings relating to Iran or with individuals or

entities designated pursuant to certain Executive Orders. Disclosure is generally required even where the activities, transactions or dealings were conducted in compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

Revenue in 2017 attributable to the transactions or dealings by the Company described below was approximately $545,000 with net profit from such sales being a fraction of the revenues.

During 2017, one of the Company’s divisions, a provider of energy-related information in over 150 countries, sold information and informational materials, which are generally exempt from U.S. economic sanctions, to fifteen subscribers that are owned or controlled, or appear to be owned or controlled, by the Government of Iran (the “GOI”), including one that was also designated by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) pursuant to Executive Order 13382 for part of the first quarter of 2016. The Company, among other things, offers customers that subscribe to its publications access to proprietary data, analytics, and industry information that enable commodities markets to perform with greater transparency and efficiency. This division provided such data related to the energy and petrochemicals markets to the subscribers referenced above, generating revenue that was a de minimis portion of both the division's and the Company’s revenue. Seven of the subscribers are identified by OFAC as GOI entities; and nine appear, based on publicly available information, to be owned or controlled by GOI entities. In addition, as previously reported, during the third quarter of 2017, this division entered into a contract to sell information and informational materials to another subscriber that is owned or controlled by the Government of Iran, and began to provide informational materials to this subscriber under the contract, but no revenues were received under this contract in 2017. We believe that these transactions were permissible under U.S. sanctions pursuant to certain statutory and regulatory exemptions for the exportation of information and informational materials. The Company will continue to monitor its provision of products and services to these Iranian customers so that such activity continues to be permissible under U.S. sanctions.

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