Caterpillar, Inc.

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Caterpillar 3Q 2019 Analyst Conference. At this time, all participants have been placed on a listen-only mode, and we will open the floor for your questions and comments after the presentation. It is now my pleasure to turn the floor over to your host, Jennifer Driscoll. Ma'am, the floor is yours. Thanks, Catherine.

Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Caterpillar's third quarter earnings call at our new earlier time of 7.30 a.m. Central. Joining us today are Jim Umpleby, Chairman of the Board and CEO, Andrew Bonfield, CFO, Kyle Epley, Vice President of our Global Finance Services Division, and Rob Rangel, Investor Relations Manager. Our call today expands on our earnings release, which we issued earlier this morning. You'll find slides to accompany today's presentation, along with a release, in the Investors section of Caterpillar.com under Events and Presentations. The forward-looking statements we make today are subject to risks and uncertainties. We'll also make assumptions that could cause our actual results to be different than the information we discussed today. Please refer to our recent SEC filings and the forward-looking statements reminder in today's news release for details on factors that individually or combined could cause our actual results to vary materially from our forecasts. Let me remind you that Caterpillar has copyrighted this call, and we prohibit use of any portion of it without our prior written approval. We're not reporting adjusted profit per share today, but remember we will at the end of the fourth quarter. This will exclude any mark-to-market gain or loss for the remeasurement of pension and other post-employment benefit plans, as well as any other material discrete items. As a reminder, our U.S. GAAP-based guidance for profit per share is continues to include the benefit of the 31-cent discrete tax item we recognized in the first quarter. In a moment, you'll hear from Andrew with a summary of this quarter's financial results. But first, let me turn the call over to Jim for our third quarter highlights, which appear on slide three. Thank you.