Bloomberg Offers CCBN's StreetEvents Service to Subscribers.Business/Technology Editors NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of & BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 8, 2001 Bloomberg and CCBN CCBN Central Coast Bancorp CCBN Charles County Business Network Collaborate to Provide Institutional Investors Institutional Investor A non-bank person or organization that trades securities in large enough share quantities or dollar amounts that they qualify for preferential treatment and lower commissions. Access to Wall Street's Leading Event Calendar and Most Comprehensive Source for Financial Webcasts and Corporate Investor Noun 1. corporate investor - a company that invests in (acquires control of) other companies company - an institution created to conduct business; "he only invests in large well-established companies"; "he started the company in his garage" Information Bloomberg L.P., a leading global, multimedia-based distributor of financial information services See Information Systems. , and CCBN (www.ccbn.com), the leading provider of Internet-based financial communications services, jointly announced today the availability of CCBN's StreetEvents(SM) service through the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL(R) service. The more than 260,000 institutional investors who use the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL service now have the opportunity to access CCBN's StreetEvents service, including Event Briefs conference call summaries, directly from their Bloomberg terminal The Bloomberg Terminal is a computer system that enables financial professionals to access the Bloomberg Professional® service through which users can monitor and analyse real-time financial market data movements and place trades. . The StreetEvents service provides institutional investors with information sourced directly from over 6,000 public companies and 100 sell-side institutions. Subscribers of the StreetEvents service can access: -- An interactive, downloadable master calendar of upcoming conference calls and earnings releases -- Live and archived webcasts -- Event Briefs conference call summaries -- Enhanced content sourced directly from the corporations -- Brokerage conference dates, participating companies and presentation webcasts -- Other investment-related events. Bloomberg is the first of CCBN's distribution partners to integrate Event Briefs content into their service, giving their clients another way to help them effectively manage the surplus of financial information they receive as a result of Regulation Fair Disclosure The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC's) Regulation Fair Disclosure, also commonly referred to as Regulation FD or Reg FD was an SEC ruling implemented in October 2000 ([1]). (FD). Recently introduced to the market, CCBN's Event Briefs feature unbiased, straightforward summaries of corporate conference calls and include a factual synopsis of the key data points, financial review and outlook, call duration and participants, and the critical question and answer session. "Bloomberg is one of the most widely-used services for the institutional investment community because of our ability to deliver the most accurate and comprehensive information to our subscribers," said Scott Clopton, Manager of Third Party Contributions for Bloomberg. "CCBN's StreetEvents service complements and adds value to the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL service, providing our subscribers with a steady flow of the straight-from-the source corporate financial information investors need for making decisions about their portfolio companies." Bloomberg users receive CCBN StreetEvents data through a news story feed on their terminal. For detailed information, users click on the headlines, which are coded "STE' for investment events and "STB See set-top box. STB - set-top box " for Event Briefs. Subscribers to the CCBN StreetEvents service through Bloomberg have full subscription access to the custom-designed, co-branded CCBN StreetEvents on Bloomberg application, which is fully integrated into the Bloomberg terminal, eliminating the need to research multiple sites. Non-subscribers receive the top-level news stories, along with full access to enhanced corporate content and webcasts through a CCBN micro site. "Making StreetEvents available on Bloomberg adds incredible value for the hundreds of thousands of institutional investors who rely on Bloomberg for financial news, analytics and data throughout the trading day In Business, the trading day is the time span that a particular stock exchange is open. For example, the New York Stock Exchange is, as of 2006, open from 09:30AM to 4:00PM. Trading days never take place on weekends. ," said Roland Beaulieu, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. of CCBN. "Companies are releasing more information in their efforts to meet SEC disclosure requirements. Having that information integrated into an application like the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL service saves time for institutional investors because they can get what they need from one source." CCBN provides webcasts for thousands of companies on a live and archived basis for quarterly financial conference calls, product announcements, annual meetings and conference presentations. Through its Investor Distribution Network of more than 20 top financial sites, CCBN delivers these webcasts and other straight-from-the-company information to millions of individual and institutional investors. "This cooperative effort between Bloomberg and CCBN is extremely beneficial to not only institutional investors, but also corporate investor relations professionals," said Rob Adler, President and co-founder of CCBN. "This relationship has created a powerful communications channel Also called a "circuit" or "line," it is a pathway over which data are transferred between remote devices. It may refer to the entire physical medium, such as a telephone line, optical fiber, coaxial cable or twisted wire pair, or, it may refer to one of several carrier frequencies between corporations and the investment community. CCBN can deliver our clients' message directly to Bloomberg's vast subscriber audience, increasing their exposure to the professional investment community and helping them meet disclosure requirements." About Bloomberg L.P. Bloomberg L.P. is a global, multimedia-based distributor of information services, combining news, data and analysis for financial markets and businesses. Bloomberg provides real-time pricing, historical pricing, indicative data, analytics and electronic communications 24 hours a day through 166,000 BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL systems used by over 260,000 financial professionals in 120 countries. Bloomberg media includes television, radio, publishing and Internet operations worldwide. About CCBN Co-founded in 1997 by Jeffrey P. Parker, creator of First Call, and Robert Adler Robert Adler (December 4 1913 - February 15 2007) was an Austrian-born American inventor who held numerous patents. Achievements Adler was born in Vienna, and earned a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Vienna in 1937. , CCBN is the global leader in enabling direct communications between public companies and the investment community over the Internet. CCBN builds, manages and hosts the investor relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. sections of Web sites for more than 2,500 public companies, providing detailed shareholder information through interactive, multimedia solutions. In addition, CCBN hosts live and archived quarterly conference calls for more than 3,000 corporations each quarter. Through its StreetEvents institutional event management database (www.streetevents.com) and partnerships with leading retail financial portals, CCBN has created a revolutionary investor distribution network that delivers an unprecedented body of direct corporate information to the largest collective audience of institutional and individual investors in cyberspace Coined by William Gibson in his 1984 novel "Neuromancer," it is a futuristic computer network that people use by plugging their minds into it! The term now refers to the Internet or to the online or digital world in general. See Internet and virtual reality. Contrast with meatspace. . Headquartered in Boston, MA, CCBN has additional offices in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden and London. |
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