Announcement
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What's New

July 1, 2003

Alacra is pleased to release Meridian Securities Markets as a new premium database. Meridian Securities Markets provides comprehensive coverage of the world�s equity markets. Historical and current exchange and sector-level data is provided for over 45 exchanges, 850 sectors, 75 market indices and 800 sector indices.

From now through July 31st, you can download up to five FREE Meridian Securities reports!*

Some features that make Meridian Securities data unique are:

  • Historical information from 47 leading stock exchanges for over 25 years; current data up to the latest month
  • Comparable coverage of over 850 industry sectors and indices
  • Sector profiles (by market capitalization and trading value) of exchanges for any chosen year
  • Ranking of exchanges (and sectors within an exchange) by over 20 criteria for any year

    This data can be used to:

    • evaluate the liquidity of trading in an industry sector and the overall market and compare that with data for the company
    • evaluate the volatility of an industry sector and the overall market and compare that with data for the company
    • view the inflation-corrected 1-, 3-, 5-, and 10-year return of an industry sector as measured by the growth of the sector index, and of the overall market, and judge a company's performance in that context
    • rank industry sectors by over 20 different criteria for any chosen year or month to see if the sector of interest in under-performing or beating the market on various measures
    • study the degree of concentration of market capitalization and trading value in a particular industry sector as measured by the share of the top 10 companies in that sector

For more information, please contact Alacra at 1 888 333 0820 within the US, 1 212 363 9620 in New York or 44 (0)20 3059 5765 in Europe, or email us at [email protected].

*This offer is good from July 3, 2003 through July 31, 2003 Accounts will be automatically credited for up to five Meridian Securities reports worth up to $300. Any fees incurred in excess of $300 will be the responsibility of the customer.