Complete the sale of OPIS, Coal, Metals and Mining, and PetroChem Wire businesses to News Corp
Not delivered by the deadline
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- Announced
- 2 Aug 2021
- Due
- 31 Dec 2021
- Checked
- 21 Oct 2026
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“The sale is expected to be completed at the close of the merger between S&P Global and IHS Markit.”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
The sale of the OPIS group was tied to the merger closing, but filings from early 2022 indicate the merger and divestitures were still pending and subject to remaining conditions.
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A IHS Markit 8-K filed 2022-02-25
“risks associated with: (i) the satisfaction of the remaining conditions precedent to consummation of the merger and the divesture of the Company’s CGS business and IHS Markit’s OPIS, CMM, PetroChem Wire and Base Chemicals businesses” ✓ confirmed on the page
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A IHS Markit 10-K filed 2022-01-24
“The OPIS group sale is expected to be completed at the close of the merger between IHS Markit and S&P Global... We currently anticipate closing the merger with S&P Global during the calendar first quarter of 2022.” ✓ confirmed on the page
Checked 21 Oct 2026.
Commitment DNA
The structured record of this commitment. Fields the company did not state are left blank rather than guessed.
- Event type
- Acquisition close
- Indicative materiality
- High rules
- Action
- Complete
- Deliverable
- sale of OPIS, Coal, Metals and Mining, and PetroChem Wire businesses
- Language
- Expected (“expects”, “plans”)
- In the company’s control
- Medium
- Specificity
- High
- Conditional
- Yes: subject to further review and approval by regulators and antitrust authorities
- Depends on
- Regulatory
How this entry was checked
- Commitment recordedThe company's words were matched word for word against the filing.
- First checkAn AI model, Gemini (Google), read the company's later filings and recorded the outcome with a quoted passage.
- Second check: agreesA different AI model, Claude (Anthropic), re-read the evidence without being told the outcome and reached the same answer.
- Third check on a negative finding: agreesBecause a negative finding could harm a company if wrong, a stronger model re-read the evidence fully blind and reached the same answer.
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