Reuters supplies the global financial markets and the news media with the widest range of information and news products including real-time financial data, collective investment data, numerical, textual, historical and graphical databases plus news, graphics, news video, and news pictures.

Reuters designs and installs enterprise-wide information management and risk management systems for the financial markets as well as providing equity and foreign exchange transaction systems. It extensively uses internet technologies for wider distribution of information and news.

Over 485,000 users located in 57,900 organisations access Reuters information and news worldwide. Data is provided for over 400,000 shares, bonds and financial instruments as well as for 40,000 companies.

Financial information is obtained from 267 exchanges and over-the-counter markets and contributed by 4,982 clients.

Reuters is the world's largest news and television agency with 2,072 journalists, photographers and camera operators in 216 bureaus serving 157 countries. News is gathered and edited for both business and media clients in 23 languages. Approximately 10,000 stories made up of 1.5 to 2 million words are published daily. Some 290 subscribers plus their networks and affiliates in 93 countries use Reuters television news coverage.

Reuters provides news and information to over 170 Internet sites and reaches an estimated 10.9 million viewers per month generating approximately 100 million pageviews via the four major portal sites - Yahoo!, Lycos, Excite and Infoseek.

Reuters services are delivered to clients over the world's most extensive private satellite and cable communications network. At peak time, Reuters updates 3,200 prices and other data per second with 50 million changes handled daily.

 

     

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