Thomson Reuters today announced that it has widened its coverage of market data for four emerging market stock exchanges and the Dow Jones Federation of Euro-Asian stock exchanges Index (FEAS) to satisfy increasing demand from its global transaction community.
In moves to help increase transparency and access to some of the world's fastest growing emerging markets, Thomson Reuters has implemented a number of firsts, all accessible via the Reuters 3000 Xtra desktop, including real time data for the recently launched Ukrainian Exchange.
Commenting on the enhancements, Stephen Wilson, Global Head of Exchange Traded Instruments at Thomson Reuters said; "We remain committed to providing innovative, rich, intelligent, timely and comprehensive market data so that the growing global transaction community can adopt efficient trading strategies.Thomson Reuters has had a presence in emerging markets for decades. We continue to invest in them as we recognise their importance beyond their borders."
In more detail:
Hanoi Stock Exchange (HNX) - Thomson Reuters is the first non-domestic firm to provide HSE market data that will benefit trading strategies in allowing people to view; total put-through transaction volume, exchange reference price changes, market value split by foreign sell/buy orders and current room (availability limit) for foreign investors of both equities and bonds.
The Ukrainian Exchange - Following the bourse opening its doors in March 2009, Thomson Reuters is first to offer real time data to clients via who can now view the trading information for equities, equity index and bonds.
Sarajevo Stock Exchange - Real-time updates to the two oldest indices, BIFX and SASX10. The new market data enhancements including Level 1 real-time prices, range from equities and closed-end investment funds to corporate bonds. The addition of more than 500 instruments will highly enrich the content offered by Thomson Reuters for Bosnia and
Herzegovina. Thomson Reuters clients can access the Sarajevo Exchange Level 1 data through index pages BA/EQUITY. Two years of historical data has been added (May 2007 - May 2009) with further analysis stretching back to 2002 plannedd for release over coming weeks.
Prague Energy Exchange - the trading platform for electricity futures for Czech, Slovak and Hungarian Electricity will provide real time data for the Price List, Automatic Trade Summary (of Auction and Continuous Trades), Auction Results, Continuous Results and the Power Futures. Market Depth information is also available for The Continuous Results. Thomson Reuters clients can access data though index page PXE-INFO1.
Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange (BM&F) - to satisfy the growing demand for electronic transaction services in Latin America, Thomson Reuters now carries level 2 data on 3000Xtra, Reuters Trader Latin America and Reuters Trading for Exchanges (RTEX). The BM&F level 2 data features five levels of market depth (Best Bid/Ask) along with aggregated volume and the number of offers for financial and agricultural futures.
Dow Jones Federation of Euro-Asian Stock Exchanges (FEAS) Indexes - market data, includes component stocks of exchanges for; Abu Dhabi (UAE), Amman (Jordan), Bahrain (Kingdom of Bahrain), Belgrade (Serbia), Bulgaria (Bulgaria), Istanbul (Turkey), Karachi (Pakistan), Macedonia (Republic of Macedonia), Muscat (Oman), and Zagreb (Croatia).
The Dow Jones FEAS Indexes are designed to cover 95% of the free-float market capitalization of each country in the respective index. In addition to float-adjusted market capitalization, components are selected based on readily available prices. The indexes are calculated and disseminated in euro and U.S. dollar and weighted by float-adjusted market capitalization. The Dow Jones FEAS Indexes are rebalanced quarterly when additional FEAS member exchanges will be added.