| September 15, 2004 | ||
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| French version - English version | ||
| AFX News and Agence France - Presse (AFP) financial newswires are now available over Traderforce terminals | ||
| Traderforce, the European financial information platform
for markets professionals, has combined financial newswires from AFX
News and from its parent company, the French national press agency,
Agence France-Presse. AFP is providing ‘AFP Finances France’, an in-depth coverage of French financial news in French, to Traderforce terminal users. Comprising up to 200 stories per day, AFP Finances France covers news on French stock exchange-listed companies – including in-depth coverage of small caps. The service also delivers the main macro-economic news and international economic indicators, along with French economic, political and social news that impacts the trading day. Flash headlines instantly deliver the most important news to readers (accounting for up to 20% of daily output), which are then developed and followed up with in-depth analyses of stock price reactions and additional commentary by financial professionals (slugged ‘Stockwatch’). AFX is providing all Traderforce terminal users with the ‘AFX International ProFeed’, the English language newswire for finance professionals. Comprising up to 1,300 stories per day, AFX International ProFeed covers the European financial marketplace in depth (large and small caps) and all the main financial news from around the globe. According to Pierre Laborie, Marketing Director for Traderforce, and Jean-Philippe Cunniet, Sales Director for the AFP and AFX newswires in France, “the combination of the best AFP and AFX financial newswires on Traderforce, will provide the finance community with the most comprehensive coverage available of the French financial market”. Pierre Laborie adds that Traderforce, already one of the fastest-growing market data vendors in France, “will also distribute AFX news services in European local languages in order to accelerate the use of the platform through Europe, especially in the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Luxembourg”. Sports news also available from AFP offers a nice ‘cerise sur le gateau’ when the markets are quieter, as it also helps provide topics of conversation between finance professionals and their clients.” |
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