Moscow, August 25, 2004 - RBC TV specialists have completed the integration of a Bloomberg feed with RBC TV's exchange feed broadcasting system. Now the channel's viewers can receive information about world stock indices, FOREX trade, Russian ADRs on world exchanges, as well as quotes from CBOT, COMEX, IPE, LME, LIFFE, and NYMEX.
This data and other information from foreign trading floors have been kindly provided by the US-based Bloomberg L.P. Bloomberg has forged a unique position within the financial services industry by providing an unparalleled range of features in a single package, the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONALtm service. By addressing the demand for investment performance and efficiency through an exceptional combination of information, analytic, electronic trading and Straight Through Processing tools, Bloomberg has built a worldwide customer base of corporations, issuers, financial intermediaries, and institutional investors. Clients include the world's central banks, investment institutions, commercial banks, government offices and agencies, corporations, and news organizations. Bloomberg information is used in crawlers, as well as presented in the form of graphs and tables in RBC TV programs.
RBC TV, a wholly owned television subsidiary of OAO RBC Information Systems (RTS, MICEX: RBCI), has established cooperation with major world television channels and agencies, including CNN, CNBC, APTN, NTV (Germany), Deutsche Welle and many others. "The broadcasting of Bloomberg data is another step that RBC TV has made as part of the process of developing partnership with the leaders of the world information market," General Director of RBC TV Artyom Inutin stated.
Additional information
Bloomberg L.P., founded in 1981, is an information services, news, and media company servicing customers in 100 countries around the world. Headquartered in New York, the company employs more than 7,000 people in 9 sales offices, 2 data centers and 79 news bureaus worldwide.
In addition to providing the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL service, the company has global news, television, radio, Internet, and magazine and book publishing operations. BLOOMBERG NEWSSM began in 1990 as a financial news wire service and has grown to include 950 reporters in 79 bureaus worldwide. It provides stories and columns on business, general news, politics, and sports to leading newspapers and magazines throughout the world, from the New York Times to the Asahi News. BLOOMBERG TELEVISIONR, a 24-hour business and financial news network is produced and distributed globally in nine different languages. It also provides syndicated market and technology reports to local news stations and produces two half-hour magazine format shows, BLOOMBERG SMALL BUSINESSSM and BLOOMBERG PERSONAL ®.
Investor contact: Natalia Makeeva
Tel: +7 (095) 363-1111 (ext. 1369), e-mail:ir@rbc.ru, Web: www.rbcinfosystems.com.
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