reuters

     

Reuters Group plc (pronounce /ˈrɔɪtərz/, LSE: RTR and NASDAQ: RTRSY) is a news service and former financial market data provider that provided reports from around the world to newspapers and broadcasters. News reporting once accounted for less than 10% of the company's income. Its main focus was on supplying the financial markets with information and trading products. These included market data, such as share prices and currency rates, research and analytics, as well as trading systems that allowed dealers to buy and sell such things as currencies and shares on a computer screen instead of by telephone or on a trading floor like that of the New York Stock Exchange. Among other services, the most notable was analysis of 40,000 companies, debt instruments, and 3 million economic series. Competitors included Bloomberg L.P. and Dow Jones Newswires.

Trivia about reuters

  • This London news agency was founded in 1851 & named for a German baron
  • Rutgers is a New Jersey university; this is a news service founded in London in 1851
  • Blitzer started his career in 1972 with this huge news service named for the German who started it in 1851