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New Constructs Unwraps ETF, Fund Screeners, Eyes Partners

New Constructs, a Nashville, Tenn.-based provider of independent research and stock recommendations based on data from footnotes to financial reports,...

Inside Market Data | News | Research & Commentary | 21 May 2012

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Fitch Grows CDS Pricing

Fitch Solutions, the data arm of ratings agency Fitch, has added bid-offer spreads for single-name credit default swaps, and CDS benchmark curves that show average CDS values by rating, industry sector and region, to its CDS Pricing Service, which already...

Inside Market Data | News | Pricing & Valuations | 21 May 2012

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Opening Cross: The Intellectual Challenges of TA, IP and M&A

Whether an asset class is commoditized or not, analytics are an important tool in determining an instrument’s true value beyond its price alone, as well as what direction the market expects it to move—as demonstrated by the swathe of stories in this...

Inside Market Data | Opinion | Data Display & Analytics | 14 May 2012

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MyTreasury Taps Fitch Ratings

Interdealer broker Icap’s MyTreasury trading portal is to provide clients with access to a feed of credit ratings and CDS-implied ratings data, watches and outlooks from Fitch Solutions, and 35 years of historical ratings actions for up to 3,000 UK...

Inside Market Data | News | Indexes & Ratings | 14 May 2012

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Moody’s Ups ChinaScope Stake

Moody’s Corp., the parent company of ratings agency Moody’s Investors Service, has increased its holding in ChinaScope Financial—a provider of analytics and business intelligence focused on the Chinese market—to 25 percent, after taking a 16.7...

Inside Market Data | News | Indexes & Ratings | 14 May 2012

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Nasdaq Preps GIDS Beta Test

Nasdaq OMX will this week begin beta testing of GIDS 2.0, the new version of its Global Index Data Service—one month later than originally planned (IMD, Dec. 12, 2011), with a live production rollout scheduled for August 20. GIDS 2.0 is based on the...

Inside Market Data | News | Exchange Data | 07 May 2012

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Morningstar Revises Stewardship Ratings Methodology

Chicago-based data and investment research provider Morningstar last week unveiled new Stewardship Ratings—a revised rating system that rates a firm’s stewardship as exemplary, standard or poor—replacing its existing grading of A through D and F,...

Inside Market Data | News | Indexes & Ratings | 07 May 2012

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Intrinsic to Add Russell Index Data, Schema

Equity and fixed income analytics provider Intrinsic Research Systems, a subsidiary of company and financial data vendor Mergent, is expanding the content available via its analytics platform, with the addition of data from Russell Indexes as well as...

Inside Market Data | News | Indexes & Ratings | 30 Apr 2012

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Goodwin Rejoins Russell Indexes

Russell Investments has hired Tom Goodwin as senior research director for its Russell Indexes business, responsible for helping clients to use its indexes to understand market dynamics and measure portfolio performance. Goodwin was most recently founder...

Inside Market Data | News | People | 23 Apr 2012

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DJI Taps Elektron for US Indexes

Dow Jones Indexes has selected Thomson Reuters' Elektron global data infrastructure to deliver a comprehensive data integration and distribution solution, including low-latency direct feeds for index constituent prices as well as corporate actions and...

Inside Market Data | News | Indexes & Ratings | 02 Apr 2012

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