FT-Extel, Moody's Market Joint-Venture Database, As Extel Shuffles Staff

FT-Extel, a unit of Pearson PLC, is touting the result of a joint venture with Dun & Bradstreet Corp.'s Moody's Investors Service Inc.--a consolidated database of fundamental data on 25,000 exchange-listed companies worldwide. Separately, less than a year after Sharon Rowlands was appointed president of FT-Extel North America--following the acquisition of Interactive Data Corp. by Pearson (IMT, July 21, 1995)--Rowlands is leaving the U.S. to take the helm of U.K-based FT-Extel as its