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About UK Wire
UK-Wire Limited (UKW) is a dedicated Company Press Release service offering the very latest announcements from UK quoted Companies. Included are the regulatory content (such as results) but UKW also provides Companies with the means to communicate effectively via the Internet on all aspects of their business. UKW is the most comprehensive source of UK Company announcements on the Internet. The coverage is to be extended to incorporate IPO's and other unlisted Companies wishing to attract investment and also to cover the other major European markets.
UKW is a wholly owned subsidiary of Financial Express Prestel Limited. Financial Express Prestel (FEP) specialises in the collection and dissemination of financial market news and data. The Prestel division in particular has a long track record in this area. FEP has a contract with the LSE for the dissemination of prices and RNS. It is one of two companies in the UK (the FT being the other) that collects all unit trust and other collective investment prices, direct from source. It powers with data a majority of the UK's main financial information websites for investors.
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Financial Sites > Bloomberg UK
About Bloomberg
Bloomberg L.P. is an information services, news and media company serving customers around the world. Headquartered in New York, they employ 8000 people in over 100 offices worldwide.
Bloomberg has forged a unique position within the financial services industry with the Bloomberg Professionalservice, which provides an unparalleled combination of data, analytics, electronic trading and straight-through processing tools in a single platform. By providing instantaneous access to real-time historical financial data and the ability to act on it Bloomberg transformed the securities business and leveled the playing field between buyers and sellers. Their clients include the world's central banks, investment institutions, commercial banks, government offices and agencies, corporations and news organizations.
In addition to the Bloomberg Professional service, Bloomberg has grown to include global news, television, radio, Internet, and magazine and book publishing operations. Bloomberg News was founded in 1990 as a financial news wire service and has grown to include 1200 reporters in 85 bureaus worldwide. Bloomberg Television, a 24-hour business and financial news network, is produced and distributed globally in seven different languages. Bloomberg Radio is syndicated through more than 700 affiliates worldwide and gives listeners up-to-the minute business, national and international news. Bloomberg's 24-hour flagship station is Bloomberg WBBR 1130 in New York.
The company publishes four magazines in the U.S. for consumers and professionals. Bloomberg Personal Finance is targeted to active individual investors; Bloomberg Wealth Manager is published for money managers and advisers; Bloomberg Markets is a business magazine for investment professionals and complements the Bloomberg Professional service. On Investing is a personal investment magazine produced exclusively for Charles Schwab's top-tier clients. Bloomberg also publishes, in conjunction with local partners, Bloomberg Money in the U.K. and Bloomberg Investimenti in Italy.
Bloomberg's Web site, Bloomberg.com, is among the top five most visited sites in the U.S. for financial news and information.
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