Retailers are generally reporting moderate growth in same-store sales results for February, according to Thomson Reuters data.
In response, companies have issued a record year-to-date amount of high-grade bonds in the U.S., Thomson Reuters data show.
These numbers stack up against projected profit growth of 15.0% for 2011 and 14.0% for 2012, according to Thomson Reuters data.
That level was 5, 087 times its earnings per share for the previous four quarters, and 404 times its expected earnings for that year, according to Thomson Reuters data.
Demand has helped push the average yield on a Triple-A 10-year muni to a current 1.9% from 3.5% in January 2011, according to Thomson Reuters Municipal Market Data.
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In April, Palantir partnered with Thomson Reuters to create a financial data analytics platform called QA Studio.
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Eighteen out of 26 analysts rate the stock a buy or outperform, according to data from Thomson Reuters.
Financial news and data provider Thomson Reuters has said that it will cut 2, 500 jobs, or 4% of its workforce.
This is according to the quarterly MoneyTree Report released Friday by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association, using data from Thomson Reuters.
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Photographic demand for silver fell 12.6% to 57.8 million ounces, the lowest level since Thomson Reuters GFMS began compiling annual data more than two decades ago.
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Thomson Reuters, which did the data crunching for THE, combed through 6 million journal articles published over a five-year period, and then calculated how many times those articles were cited by other scholars.
According to data collected by Thomson Reuters Peer Monitor, big law firms raised their average standard rate by about 9.3% over the past three years.
Microsoft repurchased more stock in the third quarter of calendar 2010 than any other company in the nation, according to data pulled from Thomson Reuters via FactSet Research Systems.
Indeed, in the third-quarter of 2010 JPMorgan spent more on stock buybacks than all but eight companies in America, according to data pulled from Thomson Reuters via FactSet Research Systems.
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In the first half of the year, Palmisano got IBM to spend more on stock repurchases than any other company in the U.S., according to data pulled from Thomson Reuters via FactSet Research Systems.
Sam Palmisano, chief executive of International Business Machines, has gotten his company to spend more on stock repurchases than any other company in the nation so far this year, according to data pulled from Thomson Reuters via FactSet Research Systems.
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Bloomberg in 2012 surpassed rival Thomson Reuters to become the largest financial-data provider in the world.
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The data is compiled by Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association.
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Thomson, Reuters and Bloomberg have been competing to sell data terminals to large banks, brokerages and hedge funds.
That company has a 33% market share for financial information terminals, according to Inside Market Data Reference, but the Thomson-Reuters combination should put it just ahead, with 34% of the market.
The Thomsons are best known in the US for taking their very successful data company (Thomson Corp) and buying Reuters in 2007, creating Thomson Reuters.
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This presents both Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg with an opportunity to gather and sell data on these markets and perhaps to capture a share of the trade by linking banks and their clients through their own electronic trading platforms.
The venture capital industry continues its contraction, according to the latest data from the National Venture Capital Association and Thomson Reuters.
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To make matters worse, health insurers are reluctant to share data about costs, says Bobbi Coluni, who leads Thomson Reuters's consumer-health unit.
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In contrast with News Corp's sally for Dow Jones, many of the thorny details of the proposed tie-up between Reuters and Thomson, the second- and third-largest providers of financial data respectively, have already been worked out.
This year, analyst feedback prompted us to apply a revenue multiple of 3.5, in between that of FactSet, the highly profitable financial data firm (approx 5 x sales), and slightly sluggish Thomson Reuters, a direct competitor (just under 2 x sales).
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The report also cited the strong quarterly dividend history at Thomson Reuters Corp, and favorable long-term multi-year growth rates in key fundamental data points.
Data for the report was independently compiled by the London-based metals consultancy Thomson Reuters GFMS. The survey has been published by the Silver Institute annually since 1990.
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Thomson Reuters sees great opportunity for growth if business customers are familiar with its whole suite of products, which includes data pertinent to those in the financial, legal, tax, accounting, healthcare, science and media professions.
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