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Securities Exchange Act of 1934
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MOODY’S CORPORATION
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IMPORTANT NOTICE Regarding the Availability of Proxy Materials
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| Meeting Type: Annual Meeting | ||||||||
| MOODY’S CORPORATION | For holders as of: March 01, 2010 | |||||||
| Date: April 20, 2010 Time: 9:30 AM EST | ||||||||
| Location: 7 World Trade Center at | ||||||||
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250 Greenwich Street |
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| New York, New York 10007 |
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| Voting items | ||||||||||
| The Board of Directors recommends you vote FOR the following proposal(s): | ||||||||||
| 1. Election of Directors |
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Nominees |
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01 Basil L. Anderson |
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02 Darrell Duffie, Ph.D. |
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| 03 Raymond W. McDaniel, Jr |
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The Board of Directors recommends you vote FOR the following proposal(s): |
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| 2 Approval of the Attended and Restated 2001 Moody’s Corporation Key Employees’ Stock Incentive Plan |
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| 3 Approval of the 2004 Moody’s Corporation Covered Employee Cash Incentive Plan, as amended |
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4 Ratification of the appointment of independent registered public accounting firm for 2010 |
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| The Board of Directors recommends you vote AGAINST the following proposal(s):
5 Stockholder proposal to adopt a policy that the chairman of the Company’s board of directors be an independent director |
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The Board of Directors does not have a recommendation for voting on the following proposal(s):
| 6 | Such other business as may properly come before the meeting or any adjournment thereof. |
| Voting Instructions |
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