Compiling, providing and disseminating of business and securities statistics, and commercial information; compiling financial, securities, stock exchange, trade and quote, index value and other market information; providing financial indices of select securities to enable consumers to evaluate investments and market trends in the securities market

Financial research on the organization and operation of financial markets; calculation, creation, recording, composition, compilation and systematization of stock, commodity, futures, and derivative exchange indices and all index figures relating to stock commodity, futures, and derivative exchange rates, financial instruments and securities, including, providing stock commodity, futures, and derivative and securities market information; trading and quotation on a stock, commodity, futures, and/or derivative exchange, including, stock commodity, futures, and derivative brokerage and stock, commodity, futures, and derivative exchange quotation and listing services; negotiation, quotation and clearing of financial instruments, including, financial clearing houses; cash management; financial trust operations; organization and implementation of stock, commodity, futures, and derivative markets, including, organization of stock, commodity, futures, and derivative exchanges for the benefit of the trade of stocks, commodity, futures, and derivative and other financial values; stock, commodity, futures, and derivative exchange consulting in the nature of investment consulting; financial consulting; stock, commodity, futures, and derivative exchange information services and providing financial information; agencies for commodity futures trading featuring futures contracts for non-storable products, including, for carbon emissions; investment management featuring financial portfolio creation for others and management of investments in futures markets in climate and environmental derivatives in the fields of carbon dioxide trading and financial products relating to protection of the environment, preservation of natural resources and sustainable development; gas emissions exchange services that facilitate the trading or sale of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions allowances and offsets as well as futures contracts and other financial instruments between business and other market participant