NEW YORK - NBC Desktop Video, New York, announced a new service that targets the information needs of sell-side professionals.
NBC's new Private Financial Network-Sell-Side offers 100 chief executive officer interviews each month and coverage of corporate events.
It also provides programming from NBC Professional, which offers live coverage of events that move the securities markets, key government and corporate news conferences, speeches and announcements. NBC Desktop Video adds to its own news services by accessing news from NBC News, NBC News Channel, CNBC Asia, CNBC Europe and Canal de Noticias NBC. NBC Private Financial Network and NBC are both available now via satellite, permitting lower cost delivery.
In October, Private Financial Network included coverage of the New York Society of Security Analysts, the McDonald & Co. Financial Services Investment Conference, Cruttenden Roth's 4th Annual Santa Barbara Growth Stock Conference and the International Corporate Forum's 19th Institutional Investor Conference. It also featured one-on-one interviews with CEOs of Chase Manhattan Bank, Xerox Corp., Unisys Inc., Campbell Soup Co. and 51 others.
More information is available from Paul Lief Rosengren of NBC at (212) 664-2756.
NEW YORK - GovPX's new Repo Index, a comprehensive source for rates and trading volume of U.S. Treasury repurchase agreements, is now available through Bloomberg, CQG, Knight-Ridder, Market Vision, MoneyLine and Reuters financial information services.
The Repo Index provides indexes of overnight repo rates weighted by volume for the active, on-the-run U.S. Treasuries as well as for general collateral. It also provides a weeks' worth of repo spread data and one month of rate history.
The indexes are the first verifiable benchmarks that cover the U.S. Treasury repurchase agreement market, according to Lawrence Leuzzi, chairman and chief executive of GovPX Inc., New York.
For further information, contact John J. Lehner of GovPX at (212) 693-1200 ext. 205 or e-mail at [email protected]
CHICAGO - The Chicago Board Options Exchange is installing new IBM RISC System servers that will improve the speed at which information is distributed and allow traders to modify computer monitor displays.
The client-server computer environment will replace the exchange's mainframe computers.
BOSTON - Furman Selz High Yield and CS First Boston Strategy research services are now on First Call Corp.'s BondCall research, news and commentary service.
"The addition of this research from Furman Selz and CS First Boston to BondCall represents a higher valued-added component to BondCall," said David Culvertson, general manager of First Call's Fixed Income Services.
For further information, contact Clare Powell at First Call at 617-345-2990.
