London - Reuters, the global information and news group, has today signed a £1 billion Euro Medium Term Note programme to be listed on the London Stock Exchange. This will complement an existing commercial paper programme and banking facilities. It will also help to improve further the efficiency of Reuters capital structure by adding the flexibility to tap the medium term public debt markets.

The programme was arranged by J P Morgan Securities and has an initial dealer group comprising Barclays Capital, Deutsche Bank, HSBC Markets, J P Morgan Securities, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Salomon Smith Barney International and Warburg Dillon Read. The programme has been rated AA- by Fitch-IBCA, Aa3 by Moody's and AA- by Standard & Poor's.

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