London - Reuters and Dow Jones & Company have signed an agreement which will dramatically increase the availability of Dow Jones Newswires to Reuters customers in the financial markets worldwide.

The contract allows Reuters customers in most markets to subscribe to Dow Jones Newswires as an optional service. This means that financial markets professionals will, for the first time, be able to subscribe to the full Reuters and Dow Jones news services integrated on a single screen. Before this new agreement, a selection of Dow Jones news was available to Reuters customers in North America only.

Peter Job, Reuters chief executive, said: "This agreement creates a great convergence in the world of financial markets news. We believe our customers will relish the ability to view the Dow Jones and Reuters services seamlessly integrated. We are very pleased to be able to work closely with Dow Jones."

Peter Kann, chairman and chief executive officer of Dow Jones & Company, said: "Reuters is the world's largest distributor of real-time financial data. We're very pleased to be able to make Dow Jones Newswires much more widely available to Reuters customers on a global basis."

Dow Jones Newswires are currently distributed on more than 285,000 screens worldwide, of which approximately 35,000 are Reuters screens. Reuters currently has over 450,000 users. The agreement announced today was made possible by Dow Jones' sale, earlier this year, of its former Telerate unit. Before the sale, the distribution of some Dow Jones Newswires was exclusive to Telerate.

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Contact:

Dick Tofel
Dow Jones & Company
Tel: +1 212 416 2951
dick.tofel@dowjones.com

Peter V. Thomas
Director, Media Relations
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peter.v.thomas@reuters.com

Geoff Wicks
Director, Corporate Relations
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geoff.wicks@reuters.com

Paul Waddington Communications Manager, News Tel: 0171 542 5184 paul.waddington@reuters.com

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