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Dow Jones Talks Up News Corp. Buy
News Corp. chairman and chief executive Rupert Murdoch is expected to outline his company's plans for the businesses of Dow Jones at News Corp.'s financial results presentation this week, following the media empire's $5.6 billion acquisition of Dow Jones…
Roberts Takes the Wheel
The new head of Accenture's capital markets North America practise speaks to Tine Thoresen about her data management plans for the division
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Exchanges Prepare for Penny Options Pilot Expansion
US options exchanges are bracing for an expansion of the pilot phase of quoting options in penny increments in September, though they do not expect to be overwhelmed by a deluge of new options data.
Vendors Continue Growth Path; Thomson-Reuters on Track for Regulatory Approval
Reuters, Thomson and Interactive Data each reported positive results for the second quarter of 2007 last week, and predicted a continuation of benign operating conditions for the market data industry. Revenue and profit growth was a theme across the…
Bloomberg Shuffles 'Specialist' Sales
Bloomberg has reorganized the structure of its sales operations in a move designed to reduce management and reinforce its core terminal sales area as the main channel for customer sales activity, sources tell Inside Market Data .
Indian Buyer to Boost Yipes Market Coverage
San Francisco-based Ethernet provider Yipes Enterprise Services plans to roll out its services to 36 new countries and to double its coverage of the US market as a result of its $300 million acquisition by Indian telecommunications service provider…
Amex Rejects SIFMA Fee Objection
The American Stock Exchange has hit back at calls from the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) for the US Securities and Exchange Commission to delay approval for a proposed datafeed of Amex last sale prices.
FASB Rule May Outlaw Block Discount Valuations
Uncertainty over the future of applying "blockage discounts" when valuing thinly traded securities needs to be resolved urgently if firms are to meet the deadline for compliance with the Financial Accounting Standards Board's Statement (SFAS) 157,…
Euro Vendor Mergers Grab Market Share
The race to snap up market share beneath the proposed combination of Thomson and Reuters via consolidation has begun, with two mergers between French and Swiss data vendors unveiled within the space of five days—Telekurs Financial's purchase of French…