Company Background

Key Facts About Equis

Founded in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1982
Acquired by Reuters in 1996
150,000 retail clients in 97 countries
60 employees
Equis' flagship product, MetaStock, has received the Readers' Choice Award from Stocks & Commodities magazine for over a decade.
MetaStock provides technical analysis and charting components to Thomson Reuters products

Founded in London in 1851
458,000 professional users
52,900 client locations
Connects over 250,000 financial professionals via its instant messaging service, Reuters Messaging
World's largest international multimedia news agency - 2,400 editorial staff, journalists, photographers and camera operators in 197 bureaus serving 130 countries
Approximately 30,000 headlines, including third party contributions, and over eight million words published daily in over 26 languages
Data provided on 960,000+ shares, bonds and other financial instruments
More than 200 million data records maintained and updated containing over 3,000 billion discrete data points (or record fields)
Information on 40,000 companies
Financial information from 244 exchanges and OTC markets
Financial data updated at 8,000 times per second, and at peak time up to 23,000 times per second
More than 5,000 clients contribute prices, opinions and analysis
Over 16,000 staff in 220 cities in 94 countries
Constituent of FTSE100 index
Listed on the London Stock Exchange and NASDAQ exchanges: TRI and TRIL (respectively)
Thomson Reuters is among the most read news source on the Internet reaching millions in their offices, homes or on PDAs.