Dow Jones Telerate data available on new, advanced pocket pager.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 11, 1995--Dow Jones Telerate has begun marketing the Telerate Companion, an information service that uses an advanced pocket-size paging device to display news and real-time prices for more than 300 financial instruments. Utilizing Sprintel Communications (UK) Ltd.'s pager, the Telerate Companion service features customized data display for news and prices of fixed-income securities Fixed-income securities Investments that have specific interest rates, such as bonds. , foreign exchange, swaps and derivatives, futures, energy and commodities. Users can select different kinds of instruments and the types of real-time quotes they want displayed, including, for example, the benchmark Cantor Fitzgerald Cantor Fitzgerald L.P. is a global financial services firm specializing in bond trading, as well as investment banking, asset management, market data and brokerage services. U.S. Treasury U.S. Treasury Created in 1798, the United States Department of the Treasury is the government (Cabinet) department responsible for issuing all Treasury bonds, notes and bills. Some of the government branches operating under the U.S. Treasury umbrella include the IRS, U.S. prices and foreign exchange pricing from Noonan, Astley & Pearce and Lasser Marshall, all exclusive to Dow Jones Dow Jones the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202] See : Finance Telerate. Up to 10 separate customized displays can be created. Icon-driven menus make it easy to select data, customize displays, save information and set alerts. Users can scroll through headlines from various Dow Jones newswires Dow Jones Newswires is the real-time financial news organization owned by Dow Jones. Founded in 1882, its primary competitors are Bloomberg L.P. and Reuters. The company reports more than 420,000 subscribers -- including brokers, traders, analysts and fund managers -- as of July , including the Capital Markets Report, the International Banking Wire and the International Forex Forex See: Foreign exchange Wire. "The Telerate Companion offers traders, investment professionals and individual investors a powerful, yet simple way to monitor developments in worldwide markets 24 hours a day," said Senior Vice President Bernard Battista, head of Dow Jones Telerate s Americas Group. "We considered a number of suppliers and chose Sprintel because it offered the best technology we could find. We are working with Sprintel on some interesting enhancements to add to the Telerate Companion service ." Initially, the Telerate Companion will be available in 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 , Chicago, Los Angeles and Toronto, with more locations to be added in the future. "With Sprintel Communications advanced paging technology and Dow Jones Telerate's real-time information, the Telerate Companion is unrivaled in its breadth of content and ease of use," said Marc Charlton, managing director of Sprintel Communications U.K. Ltd. Sprintel Communications, a European leader in the delivery of real-time wireless financial information, is part of the Swissphone Telecommunications Group. The Swissphone Group operates paging services in four European countries and is a leading European manufacturer of paging terminals and network infrastructure equipment. Dow Jones Telerate, a leading provider of real-time financial information, decision support products, trading room systems and transaction services to the international business community, is a part of Dow Jones & Company. Dow Jones publishes The Wall Street Journal, Barron s and other periodicals, electronic business information services See Information Systems. and community newspapers. CONTACT: Dow Jones Telerate Sanford Jacobs, 201/938-4328 |
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