TradeStation Securities, Inc., a subsidiary of TradeStation Group (NasdaqNM: TRAD), is a direct access broker that offers state-of-the-art order execution and analytics. TradeStation's proprietary Trading Platform offers advanced execution tools, including next generation market depth, custom real-time scanning, and direct connectivity to all major market centers. TradeStation Securities is based in Plantation, Florida, with offices in Dallas, Chicago, and London. In February 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 TradeStation was named Best Institutional Platform and Best Professional Platform in Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities magazine, among winning other awards. TradeStation Securities (Member NYSE, NASD, SIPC & NFA) is a licensed securities broker-dealer and a registered futures commission merchant that offers its clients the ability to trade stocks, ETFs, stock options, futures and forex. TradeStation Securities is also a member of the American Stock Exchange, Chicago Board Options Exchange, and International Securities Exchange, among others.

Bloomberg's founding vision in 1981 was to create an information-services, news and media company that provides business and financial professionals with the tools and data they need on a single, all-inclusive platform. The success of Bloomberg is due to the constant innovation of our products, unrivaled dedication to customer service and the unique way in which we constantly adapt to an ever-changing marketplace.

The New York-based company employs more than 9,000 people in more than 125 offices around the world.

Bloomberg is about information: accessing it, reporting it, analyzing it and distributing it, faster and more accurately than any other organization. The BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL service, the company's core product, is the fastest-growing real-time financial information network in the world.

Thomson Financial, the most complete source for integrated information and technology applications in the global financial services industry, is dedicated to driving profitable and measurable performance improvement for its clients. Thomson Financial works in partnership with clients to develop individual workflow solutions that leverage a client's unique way of doing business and enhances their competitive advantage in the marketplace. Our flagship desktop solution - Thomson ONE - has the most flexible platform in the industry, allowing us to integrate Thomson Financial content and products with a client's own proprietary assets and systems, and with relevant third-party applications. Thomson ONE brings to a client's fingertips the industry's broadest, richest and most powerful portfolio of content, analytics and transaction services, and helps clients to quickly identify and act upon investment, business and trading opportunities as they arise. Today, Thomson ONE offers workflow solutions designed to meet the needs of professionals in the following segments: investment banking, wealth management, investment management, institutional equities, fixed income, corporate management, institutional research and private equity.
Thomson Financial is part of the Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com), a leading provider of value-added information, software tools and applications to more than 20 million users around the world. The Thomson Corporation lists its common shares on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE:TOC; TSX: TOC)