Cantor Market Data Announces Distribution Agreement With DTN
Cantor to Provide Three Data Products Through DTN ProphetX
NEW YORK, NY – October 2, 2006 – Cantor Market Data, LLC, a subsidiary of Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P. and the exclusive source of real-time fixed income, derivative, and foreign exchange data sourced from eSpeed and BGC, today announced a distribution agreement with DTN, a leading business-to-business provider of real-time information services.
Under the agreement, DTN will offer several Cantor Market Data products via DTN ProphetX, a powerful, reliable yet easy-to-use trading tool available for the commodity, energy and financial futures trading markets.
Through DTN ProphetX, users can subscribe to Cantor Market Data real-time premium products, including U.S. Treasuries and U.S. Dollar Interest Rate Swaps, as well as Cantor Eye, the indicative product providing accurate, real-time pricing. Already strong in commodities, the addition of Cantor Market Data’s products will further enhance DTN’s value proposition across its market segments.
“DTN is proud to add Cantor Market Data products to the market information available on DTN ProphetX,” said Robert Gordon, chief executive officer of DTN. “By providing Cantor Market Data’s real-time and indicative US Treasury and Interest Rate Swap pricing, we offer customers a more comprehensive data source, while maintaining the level of reliability they have come to expect from our trading tools”.
Bernard A. Weinstein, Senior Managing Director of Cantor Market Data, commented “Cantor Market Data is pleased to have DTN as our newest market data distributor. The combination of DTN ProphetX and Cantor Market Data’s real-time and indicative content offers end users a highly powerful trading tool. We look forward to expanding our relationship going forward with other data offerings.”
About Cantor Market Data
Cantor Market Data, a division of Cantor Fitzgerald, is one of the world's premier suppliers of real-time and historical fixed income and derivative pricing data. Cantor Market Data is the exclusive source for market data derived from eSpeed and BGC Partners. Cantor Fitzgerald first pioneered live pricing data for fixed income markets 30 years ago, and now provides data priced from over $265 billion in daily fixed income transactions. Data services from Cantor Market Data are available on DTN, Reuters, Bloomberg, CQG, Infotec, QUICK, Thomson and various direct solutions from Cantor Market Data, including G3 Vision. For more information, in the US call 212 829 4840, in Europe call +44 207 894 8587, in Asia call +852 3477 7700 (Hong Kong) or +81 3 3519 9148 (Tokyo) or visit our website at www.cantordirect.com.
About DTN
DTN, a private company based in Omaha, Neb., is the leading business-to-business provider of real-time market, news and weather information services to agriculture and energy trading markets and other weather-sensitive industries. The company delivers on-demand market information, commodity cash prices, industry news and in-depth analysis, and locationspecific weather to over 120,000 subscribers through DTN for agriculture, refined fuels and trading markets, and DTN/Meteorlogix. More information can be found at www.dtn.com.
Media Contacts:
Cantor Market Data Tristan B. Peniston-Bird Gavin Anderson & Company 212 515 1933
tpeniston-bird@gavinanderson.com
DTN Sandi Scott Tunheim Partners 952 851 7216
sscott@tunheim.com
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