Business Wire, a global regulatory newswire service, is pleased to
announce an agreement with NYSE Euronext whereby its news content has
been integrated on the NYSE Euronext (European) website
(www.euronext.com), providing issuers listed on the exchange with a
highly visible showcase for their mandated market disclosure
announcements.
Business Wire disclosure-related releases in French, English, and
Dutch are prominently displayed on NYSE Euronext´s "Company News"
section. Business Wire clients that are traded on the Amsterdam,
Brussels and Paris Euronext markets will have their market-moving news
readily accessible--simultaneously and in real-time--to multilingual
investors throughout the European Union . Business Wire plans to
introduce a disclosure platform for the Lisbon market in the near
future.
Since the formal implementation of the Transparency Obligations
Directive (TOD) in January 2007, Business Wire has moved quickly to
establish itself as the disclosure leader throughout the 27 European
Union Member States. Business Wire maintains disclosure networks in a
dozen EU markets; in France, some 40 percent of the CAC 40 companies
use Business Wire to fulfill their TOD compliance obligations.
"Business Wire is proud to be recognized by NYSE Euronext as an
essential news source for price-sensitive information," said Michael
Becker, Business Wire´s vice president, global disclosure. "Having
Business Wire releases posted on the NYSE Euronext website reflects
Business Wire´s strong commitment to ´Best Practices,´ and is
accordance with the spirit and intent of the Transparency Directive. "
About Business Wire
Business Wire, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is utilized by
thousands of member companies and organizations to transmit their
full-text news releases, regulatory filings, photos and other
multimedia content to journalists, news media, trade publications,
institutional and individual investors, financial
information services, regulatory authorities, Internet portals,
information web sites, business-to-business decision-makers and
consumers worldwide. With a news distribution network spanning 150
countries and 45 languages, Business Wire´s multi-channel delivery
network has access to dozens of international and national news agency
networks throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and
Africa.
The Business Wire news network is powered by its patented
NX high-speed data platform and supports XML, XHTML and XBRL code to
deliver the most sophisticated news file to enhance news release
interactivity, customization and search engine optimization. Business
Wire has 31 bureaus in cities including New York, San Francisco, Los
Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Miami, Paris, Frankfurt, London, Brussels,
Tokyo, Toronto and Sydney with reciprocal offices throughout the
world. Business Wire was founded in 1961.
About NYSE Euronext
NYSE Euronext (NYX) operates the world´s leading and most liquid
exchange group, and seeks to provide the highest levels of quality,
customer choice and innovation. Its family of exchanges, located in
six countries, include the New York Stock Exchange, the world´s
largest cash equities market; Euronext, the Eurozone´s largest cash
equities market; Liffe, Europe´s leading derivatives exchange by value
of trading; and NYSE Arca Options, one of the fastest growing U.S.
options trading platforms. NYSE Euronext offers a diverse array of
financial products and services for issuers, investors and financial
institutions in cash equities, options and derivatives, ETFs, bonds,
market data, and commercial technology solutions.
NYSE Euronext´s nearly 4,000 listed companies represent a combined
$30.5 trillion/EUR 20.9 trillion in total global market capitalization
(as of Dec. 31, 2007), more than four times that of any other exchange
group. NYSE Euronext´s equity exchanges transact an average daily
trading value of approximately $141 billion/EUR 103 billion (as of
Dec. 31, 2007), which represents more than one-third of the world´s
cash equities trading. NYSE Euronext is part of the S&P 500 index and
the only exchange operator in the S&P 100 index. For more information
about NYSE Euronext, please visit www.nyx.com.
