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To: Robert Graham who wrote (7849)	4/24/1998 11:28:00 PM
From: Jurgen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42787

I also understand that you no longer can filter and display based on sector and industry classifications because S&P took this feature away from their data source that is used for fundamental information, MarketGuide. Is this true? As far as i know S&P took the S+P Credit Rating away. Here's a list of the new features (from Q+ Website): New features include: Mutual fund prices from 1/1/1990 are now available. Equity prices from 1/1/1992, some from 1/1/1990 are available. Includes 40 fundamental data items from Market Guide Inc. These include: 12 quarters earnings 12 quarters sales A short description of the companies Analyst footnotes Float EPS less extraordinary items Book value, latest quarter Revenue per share TTM Institutional percentage held Beta 1, 3 and 5 year EPS growth rate 1, 3 and 5 year revenue growth rate Short interest current month Shares outstanding Price to sales ratio Industry groups now licensed In release 2, we have licensed the industry groups as provided by Industry Monitors in its Investor's Reference Library. Industry Monitors assigns each company 1 of more than 200 different industry groups. Regarding the release date, i fully agree. This is not very professional. Maybe they can learn from Microsoft: 1: Sell Beta-Software until all bugs are removed. 2: Then sell new Beta-Software with more bugs at a higher price. 3: Go back to 1