Deutsche Börse has launched AlphaFlash Monitor, a new real-time, web-based application that delivers key economic indicators directly to subscribers'
trading screens immediately upon release.
The new data display is designed for market participants who seek instant access to macroeconomic figures as a basis for their trading decisions.
AlphaFlash Monitor uses the same high-speed technology infrastructure and content offering as AlphaFlash, Deutsche Börse's machine readable algorithmic news feed launched in April 2010.
"AlphaFlash Monitor provides an ultra fast, practical and easy-to-use solution for traders who trade based on economic event data. As an extension of the AlphaFlash product suite, the new data service delivers identical content to the original algorithmic news feed via a clear and distinct screen display to a broad customer base," said Georg Gross, Head of Front Office Data & Analytics at Deutsche Börse.
AlphaFlash Monitor delivers more than 150 market moving economic indicators from the U.S., Canada and Europe at millisecond speeds. Data content includes central bank interest rate decisions, employment numbers, housing statistics and gross domestic product figures. Deutsche Börse is currently expanding the AlphaFlash product suite geographically to include economic figures from Asia.
The AlphaFlash product range is the first joint offering of Deutsche Börse's Market Data & Analytics segment and U.S. financial news agencies Need to Know News (NTKN) and Market News International (MNI), both entities of Deutsche Börse Group. As fully accredited news agencies, NTKN and MNI have direct access to government lock-up rooms as well as embargoed news releases. As a result, economic events are processed so they become available with minimum latency to speed-sensitive algo and professional traders via Deutsche Börse's high speed network. The information can be used either directly in trading applications or via a web-based data display immediately following its release.