Newsquawk Daily US Conference Calendar - 28th July 2026: MRK, SPGI

This is a forward calendar item flagging conference calls for Merck & Co and S&P Global rather than a print itself, so the content is scheduling, not substance. The tagging straddles two distinct issuers: Merck & Co, the US pharmaceuticals group, and Merck KGaA, the German chemicals and life sciences company, which share a name but report separately and trade in different markets; the US-session listing points to the former, with the DAX tag likely an artifact of the naming collision. The pairing is a diversified pharma name and a ratings, index and data provider, so the usual read is that SPGI commentary on issuance volumes and index subscription trends gets mined as a proxy for capital markets activity, while MRK calls tend to turn on pipeline updates and key franchise guidance rather than the quarter's numbers. In past cycles, calendar sheets of this kind have served mainly to position for the calls themselves: implied vol into the event, peer read-across within pharma and within exchanges and data names, and any pre-announcement of guidance changes ahead of the call. Worth noting is whether the calls carry guidance updates or management changes, since those are the versions of such events that have historically moved the tape beyond the single name.