Financial/economic news and data service provided by Financial Times Information (FT Information) and the Agence France Press (AFP). Claims to be “the leading supplier of coded equity oriented financial news services for the international and domestic financial and corporate communities” providing an “integrated range of broad appeal UK, European and Asia-Pacific services through the 26 countries in which AFX operates”. Complete service is available on subscription via FTP Profile, Discovery and McCarthy. Newswire products include: Examiner (UK financial news), AFX-Europe (European financial news), AFX-Asia (Asia Pacific Financial News), RNS (UK regulatory corporate news).
WWW site offers sampling from “real time” current daily stories on companies, markets (including summaries of daily national trading), economics and on related world news. WWW site also has sample data from the Discovery directory of company information.