BRIDGE Partners With E*TRADE Sweden Providing Individual Investors With Top-Level Financial Information.Business Editors LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 17, 2001 E*TRADE Sweden Selects BRIDGE to Provide Powerful Financial Information, News and Applications Bridge Information Systems (BRIDGE(R)), one of the world's leading providers of financial information services See Information Systems. , and E*TRADE Sweden(R), a leader in the provision of online investing services, today announced the official launch in Sweden of Power E*TRADE, an innovative program designed to target the needs of active online investors.Powered by BRIDGE, E*TRADE Sweden's latest offering provides subscribers with a valuable package of investing tools and technology, including financial information that until now has only been available to professionals in the brokerage industry. "Through the innovation of Bridge Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the Solutions, BRIDGE is able to extend the delivery of real time streaming quotes, news and trade information used by market professionals to E*TRADE's active investors," said Mattias Miksche Managing Director of E*TRADE Sweden. "There is no other product of this caliber in the marketplace. We're delighted to empower empower verb To encourage or provide a person with the means or information to become involved in solving his/her own problems our clients with BRIDGE's premium functionality which also includes 'up-to-the-second' volume of shares and tick-by-tick data." "Our global strategy is to help our customers expand their business by providing them with the most powerful Internet technology tools available today," said Anna Branch, Europe, Middle East and Africa Director, Bridge Internet Solutions. "Through our proven Internet solutions E*TRADE will benefit from BRIDGE's global and local Nordic financial news and data combined with the flexibility and scope of powerful Internet solutions. BRIDGE is very pleased to service active investors in Sweden and to continue broadening the relationship with E*TRADE globally." Power E*TRADE bridges the gap in the Swedish online investing market by targeting the needs of active investors. The service, which utilizes Bridge Internet Solutions, includes: -- Real-time streaming prices for Nordic and US equities with real time data for options and foreign exchange markets. -- Up-to-the-second information on all trades placed on the market including last sales, time and size data. -- Fundamental financial data and ratios on shares up to the last 5 years. Select from 50 fundamental and technical studies. -- Advanced technical charts including intra-day, daily, weekly or up to 10 years. -- Personalised portfolio lists for any combination of Nordic, US equities, indices, FX, and options including the ability to trace profit/loss in real time and manage up to 20 portfolios each with 100 securities. -- Real time scrolling news from BridgeNews, Regulatory News Service (RNS), HUGIM, PMI-Direct and Borslistans Informationstjanst. This Power E*TRADE offering in the Sweden reinforces BRIDGE's strategic relationship with E*TRADE and follows the recent launch of Power E*TRADE Canada for the Canadian marketplace of active investors and power E*TRADE UK for the UK market place while strengthening the existing arrangement in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. in which BRIDGE powers E*TRADE Group, Inc.'s The Pulse premium service. These arrangements enable E*TRADE, E*TRADE Canada, E*TRADE UK and now E*TRADE Sweden to provide a dynamic, real-time market command center with the most comprehensive, critical information available today, powered by BRIDGE. Bridge Internet Solutions provides Internet solutions to over 100 major clients globally including the top five online brokerages. Bridge Internet Solutions include the delivery and display of financial data and services over the Internet, the Internet, the, international computer network linking together thousands of individual networks at military and government agencies, educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, industrial and financial corporations of all sizes, and commercial enterprises creation and maintenance of information, Web Design, Web Hosting Making a Web site available on the Internet. Many ISPs host a few personal Web pages for an individual at no additional cost above the monthly service fee, but the address is subordinate to the ISP; for example, www.friendlyisp.com/pat_smith. and Network services. Local language capabilities and innovative investment tools such as research-on-demand are part of the BRIDGE solution. About BRIDGE BRIDGE, together with its principal operating units operating unit A type of operating company that engages in transactions with outsiders and that is owned by another business. For example, in 1995 the stockholders of Capital Cities/ABC approved a $19 billion merger with the Walt Disney Company, whereupon , Bridge Information Systems, Telerate(R), Inc., eBRIDGE(SM), Bridge Trading, and BridgeNews(SM) is the largest provider of financial information and related services in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. and one of the fastest growing in the world. BRIDGE information products include a wide range of workstations, market data feeds and web-browser-based applications, combined with comprehensive market data, in-depth news, powerful analytic an·a·lyt·ic or an·a·lyt·i·cal adj. 1. Of or relating to analysis or analytics. 2. Expert in or using analysis, especially one who thinks in a logical manner. 3. Psychoanalytic. tools and trading room The notion of "trading room" (sometimes used as a synonym of "trading floor", see below) is widely used in financial markets to refer to the office space where market activities are concentrated in investment banks or brokerage houses. integration systems. BridgeNews leverages a network of 600 BRIDGE journalists in more than 100 locations that break news that affect securities markets globally. BRIDGE is the co-producer of the Nightly Business Report Nightly Business Report is a financial news television program that is broadcast live, weekday evenings on most of the public television stations in the United States. Frequently abbreviated to NBR, the show is produced by public television station WPBT-TV in Miami, Florida, and and is a leading provider of financial news and information to media companies worldwide. BRIDGE, with 5000 employees worldwide, and over a quarter of a million users in over 65 countries, is headquartered in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. with the BRIDGE Trading and Technology center in St. Louis, and major regional centers in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Pacific Rim Pacific Rim, term used to describe the nations bordering the Pacific Ocean and the island countries situated in it. In the post–World War II era, the Pacific Rim has become an increasingly important and interconnected economic region. . For more information visit the BRIDGE web site at http://www.bridge.com. |
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