NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Moody's Analytics today announced that it has enhanced its Credit
Quotes Live portal by adding leading fixed income news from Dow Jones.
Bond traders, analysts and portfolio managers will now have access to
an ideal combination of real-time fixed-income news from Dow Jones
Newswires and real-time pricing information from Moody's Credit Quotes
in a single platform.
In addition, Moody's Analytics will provide Dow Jones with access
to its comprehensive Credit Quotes aggregate pricing data from
approximately 2,500 issuers of corporate credit default swaps and on
primary indices and tranches. Dow Jones editorial staff will be able
to use this content as a source to be included within Dow Jones
Newswire stories and other Dow Jones publications including The Wall
Street Journal, Barron's, and MarketWatch.com.
"Dow Jones fixed income news is a natural complement to the
real-time pricing information available on the Credit Quotes portal,"
says Moody's Mark Almeida, President of Moody's Analytics. "This
enhancement is a further step toward increasing the value of Credit
Quotes as a comprehensive productivity tool for our customers."
"Financial professionals rely on Dow Jones news and expect to have
it delivered when, where and how they need it to make informed
business decisions," said Richard Hanks, chief operating officer of
Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group. "We welcome the opportunity to
extend the relationship with Moody's Analytics by providing their
customers with information they need at the point of decision and our
reporters and editors with comprehensive, accurate, and timely pricing
information from Moody's Credit Quotes to help them report on the
capital markets and add additional value to our customers."
The Dow Jones Top Stories news service is now available for all
Credit Quotes Live clients, and they can choose to subscribe to the
Dow Jones Capital Markets Report, Dow Jones's real-time news affecting
the debt markets, directly through the portal as an additional
service.
Moody's comprehensive Credit Quotes service offers price discovery
tools, end-of-day pricing services as contributed by a number of major
institutional investors, and a master database for a wide range of
fixed income securities, supplying the market with sophisticated tools
that help assess the prices of complex securities.
"The Credit Quotes Live portal is evolving into a source for
Moody's comprehensive fixed income information as well as third party
content for traders and investors," said Yiannis Tsiounis, Senior
Director at Moody's Analytics. "This agreement illustrates Moody's
commitment to invest in this platform and to provide tools and
services to contribute to greater market transparency."
About Moody's Corporation
Moody's is an essential component of the global capital markets,
providing credit ratings, research, tools and analysis that contribute
to transparent and integrated financial markets. Moody's Corporation
(NYSE: MCO) is the parent company of Moody's Investors Service, which
provides credit ratings and research covering debt instruments and
securities and Moody's Analytics, encompassing the growing array of
Moody's non-ratings businesses including Moody's KMV, a provider of
quantitative credit analysis tools, Moody's Economy.com, which
provides economic research and data services, and Moody's Wall Street
Analytics, a provider of software for structured finance analytics.
The corporation, which reported revenue of $2.3 billion in 2007,
employs approximately 3,600 people worldwide and maintains a presence
in 29 countries. Further information is available at www.moodys.com.
Source: Moody's Corporation