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NASDAQ Basic Data Now Available to FactSet Clients
Thursday, March 24, 2011
The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) announced today that NASDAQ Basic is now available to customers of FactSet Research Systems Inc. (NYSE:FDS), a leading provider of integrated financial information and analytical applications to the global investment community.
NASDAQ Basic provides customers with essential real-time quote and trade data for all U.S. exchange-listed securities in an affordable and flexible manner. In 2010, NASDAQ Basic was named "Best New Product" by Inside Market Data.
"With NASDAQ Basic, FactSet's clients now enjoy access to a fast, lower-cost alternative to Level 1 products," said Randall Hopkins, Senior Vice President, NASDAQ OMX Global Data Products. "The integration of NASDAQ Basic into FactSet's platform underscores FactSet's commitment to innovation and to serving its clients with high quality data."
"NASDAQ Basic enables us to provide our clients with real-time, equity data at a significantly lower cost," Goran Skoko, Director of Development, Research and Market Data, FactSet Research Systems.
NASDAQ Basic data includes securities listed on NASDAQ, NYSE, and NYSE Amex based on liquidity from the NASDAQ Market Center and the FINRA/NASDAQ TRF. FactSet's users of NASDAQ Basic also receive data from two other NASDAQ trading venues: NASDAQ OMX BX®(BX®) and NASDAQ OMX PSXSM(PSXSM), thanks to FactSet's provision of NASDAQ Last Sale Plus. NASDAQ Basic can be deployed in a variety of investor tools, such as last sale displays, charts and portfolio trackers. For more information about NASDAQ Basic, visit http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/Trader.aspx?id=NASDAQBasic.
About NASDAQ OMX
The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. is the world's largest exchange company. It delivers trading, exchange technology and public company services across six continents, with approximately 3,600 listed companies. NASDAQ OMX offers multiple capital raising solutions to companies around the globe, including its U.S. listings market, NASDAQ OMX Nordic, NASDAQ OMX Baltic, NASDAQ OMX First North, and the U.S. 144A sector. The company offers trading across multiple asset classes including equities, derivatives, debt, commodities, structured products and exchange-traded funds. NASDAQ OMX technology supports the operations of over 70 exchanges, clearing organizations and central securities depositories in more than 50 countries. NASDAQ OMX Nordic and NASDAQ OMX Baltic are not legal entities but describe the common offering from NASDAQ OMX exchanges in Helsinki, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Iceland, Tallinn, Riga, and Vilnius.
