Reuters BridgeChannel

Real-time financial information and analytics over the internet Channel

Reuters BridgeChannel is designed for USE IT ON THE GO OR AT YOUR DESK IN TODAY’S FAST-PACED investors who require both the competitive Reuters BridgeChannel simply requires FINANCIAL MARKETS, THE NEED advantage of comprehensive market connectivity to the Internet via a browser, TO TRACK VIRTUALLY EVERY information and cost-effective delivery. so it can be used at your desk or on the MOVE AT WORK OR ON THE GO Leveraging the latest Internet technologies, move. With Reuters BridgeChannel, IS GREATER THAN EVER it provides streaming quotes and news you can check out a story or track your HOWEVER YOU MAY NOT to the convenience of your Internet particular market of interest wherever you browser, enabling you to view real- go. And because your portfolios and REQUIRE THE POWER OF A FULL time data for a wide range of markets customised settings are stored centrally, WORKSTATION. – anywhere, anytime. you can use any PC and still retrieve your saved information. A COMPLETE MARKET VIEW All the information you need to monitor NO LEARNING CURVE your trading positions – including prices, – JUST CLICK AND GO analytics, market depth and order book Point-and-click menus and drop-down – are positioned side-byside in a single guides help you navigate the system with browser, so you can see at a glance where ease. Just use your mouse to drilldown you stand in the market. With streaming for essential fundamental analysis, technical news and quote data, as well as alerts analysis, news and related data. triggered by key price and volume moves, you can react quickly to market activity. COST EFFECTIVE DELIVERY UNBEATABLE NEWS REPORTING CHOOSE THE CONTENT PACKAGE Reuters BridgeChannel does not require No one delivers the news like Reuters. THAT MEETS YOUR NEEDS the expense or maintenance of extensive As the world’s largest international news - Basic Equities (B) Package – includes basic hardware installation. Instead, it leverages agency, our journalists provide timely, equities data for your region, Reuters news basic components you probably already accurate coverage to keep you informed. plus a wide range of analytical displays have – a computer and an Internet The result is focused, real-time news at its and charts, including relative performance, connection. Within this framework, Reuters best, delivering the breaking headlines and sector and group analyses BridgeChannel can serve as a costeffective and market insights you need to make standalone market data source. decisions with confidence.

PERSONALISE TO MATCH EASY ACCESS, HASSLE-FREE YOUR OWN STYLE UPGRADES You have complete control of the layout Accessing Reuters BridgeChannel is easy. and application components of your Simply download from our website. There’s workspace. Change the display of data no need for on-site servers, datafeeds or views, news, charts and color schemes for hardware. It’s that easy. And since upgrades a customised screen that makes sense and enhancements are automatically to you and enables you to work more downloaded via the Internet, you can be effectively. You can create and save up to assured that you will always have the most five different custom workspaces, with your up-to-date version of the product. choice of features such as the navigation Because it has the robust content of a bar and tabs, and only the applications that financial desktop – yet is deployed in an you truly use so you can quickly get inexpensive, easily accessible delivery to the information you need. method – Reuters BridgeChannel is also a popular back-up information solution for firms who require disaster recovery solutions for their traders and market professionals. Reuters Bridge Channel

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Retail brokers and Financial advisors Real-time streaming market summaries provide an excellent way to keep up with the latest market moves. And the lightweight, cost-effective delivery means branch offices can receive financial information with ease while eliminating costs associated with equipment and IT maintenance. Download historical and current market information into Microsoft Excel and create charts for clients, updating them on current market trends.

Individual investors Today’s savvy individual investors expect high-quality, value added applications from their brokerage firm. With Reuters BridgeChannel, you can provide a low- cost, maintenancefree application to your individual investors that incorporates real-time data, news and analytics, linked to your own research website and branded with your company look. THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE Select a headline and the full story text - Symbol Search – Search by name, YOU EXPECT FROM REUTERS. appears in the Story tab. You can also national ID, country or class to find the WITH REUTERS BRIDGECHANNEL, bookmark news stories on the home security symbol you need. Perform YOU GET: page to view later. complex Boolean searches even if you have only a partial description or ID. - Workspace – Design and create your own - Interactive charting – Choose from a workspace layout using the applications wide range of technical studies, time - Analytics/Pages – Choose from the most you need. You can create and save up to periods, chart types and drawing tools. popular analytical displays and pages, from five workspaces. Add multiple panes to a chart, and tick-by tick studies to full historical data, access zoom and trend line tools to fine- with the ability to export and save displays. - Index Watch – Monitor indices grouped tune your analysis. You can create and by region, or create your own index list. save up to 20 favorite charts, and export - Navigation Bar – Select from a series Customise the display with grid lines, data into a tabular format that you can of menus and drill down to the precise column headers and company name. save or print. Or search for relevant news information you need. Displays you use stories for any given chart date to help most often can be grouped under My - Market Watch – Create and save your you move quickly on your analysis. Favorites for easy access. personal symbol lists to a centrally maintained database for easy retrieval. - Level II data – Track real-time market maker, - Price alerts – Price or volume alerts notify View stocks, bonds, commodities, exchange, order book and market depth you that a particular stock has moved. fixed-income and foreign exchange updates as well as inside market activity. information all in one application. A - Quoteline – Monitor a full quote for one customisable graphic lets you see at a - Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) security. Customize the display with your glance a portfolio’s performance. View – Download real-time data directly into own field templates, grid lines, column your holdings profit & loss information in Microsoft Excel where it will continue to headers, and themes. a grouped consolidated roll up mode. update. Retrieve historical or intraday data.

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