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Business Segments (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2014
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Schedule of Operating Segments | The following table presents certain information regarding these operating segments for the three months ended March 31, 2014 and 2013.
|  | Market Services |  | Listing Services |  | Information Services |  | Technology Solutions |  | Corporate Items and Eliminations |  | Consolidated
|  | (in millions)
Three Months Ended March 31, 2014 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Total revenues |  | $ | 582 |  | $ | 58 |  | $ | 123 |  | $ | 135 |  | $ | - |  | $ | 898
Cost of revenues |  |  | (369) |  |  | - |  |  | - |  |  | - |  |  | - |  |  | (369)
Revenues less transaction rebates, brokerage, clearance and exchange fees |  |  | 213 |  |  | 58 |  |  | 123 |  |  | 135 |  |  | - |  |  | 529
Operating income (loss)(1) |  | $ | 94 |  | $ | 22 |  | $ | 90 |  | $ | 8 |  | $ | (30) |  | $ | 184
Three Months Ended March 31, 2013 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Total revenues |  | $ | 508 |  | $ | 55 |  | $ | 106 |  | $ | 75 |  | $ | - |  | $ | 744
Cost of revenues |  |  | (326) |  |  | - |  |  | - |  |  | - |  |  | - |  |  | (326)
Revenues less transaction rebates, brokerage, clearance and exchange fees |  |  | 182 |  |  | 55 |  |  | 106 |  |  | 75 |  |  | - |  |  | 418
Operating income (loss)(2) |  | $ | 74 |  | $ | 24 |  | $ | 80 |  | $ | 3 |  | $ | (91) |  | $ | 90
(1) Corporate items and eliminations for the three months ended March 31, 2014 primarily include merger and strategic initiatives expenses of $28 million primarily related to the acquisition of the TR Corporate Solutions businesses and other strategic initiatives. See “Acquisition of the Investor Relations, Public Relations and Multimedia Solutions Businesses of Thomson Reuters,” of Note 4, “Acquisitions,” for further discussion. (2) Corporate items and eliminations for the three months ended March 31, 2013 primarily include expenses related to our voluntary accommodation program, expenses paid with respect to an SEC matter, restructuring charges, merger and strategic initiatives expense and special legal expenses.

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- Definition Tabular disclosure of the profit or loss and total assets for each reportable segment. An entity discloses certain information on each reportable segment if the amounts (a) are included in the measure of segment profit or loss reviewed by the chief operating decision maker or (b) are otherwise regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker, even if not included in that measure of segment profit or loss. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 21 -Subparagraph (b) -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8721-108599 Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 25 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8813-108599 Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 350 -SubTopic 20 -Section 50 -Paragraph 1 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=14024403&loc=d3e13816-109267 Reference 4: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 30 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8906-108599 Reference 5: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 22 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8736-108599 + Details
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