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Non-Tech : Auric Goldfinger's Short List -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sir Auric Goldfinger who wrote (615)	11/1/1998 7:46:00 PM
From: RockyBalboa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19428

Auric, SDS (= SunGard Data Systems) Message 6245792 C. Reuters: I consider Reuters a decent short candidate. For institutions, Bloomberg is the only tool which offers comprehensive and easy-to-retrieve information on various securities (I recently used it to track a MBS fund's holdings, where I fond lots of FP, Advanta and IMC bonds), along with integrated solutions to price contracts. The Reuters 3000 is ill-designed and is slow even on a new pentium machine. My boss has one, I use the sun-based ATW. The raw market data will soon be delivered on a cheaper basis over satellite and internet, cutting into the sky-high data-feed prices Reuters charges (in Europe the Capital Markets package is priced around $1000, still plus exchange fees). I roughly pay $150 for different market and news services for my private business. Recently it emerged that Reuters terminals have glitches, so quote updates got "stuck" for seconds..., I noticed that when watching Naz' on Reuters as well as Datek when - believe it or not - Datek volume was some trades ahead of Reuters).