First Word: M&A Activity at Either End of the Spectrum
At 01 Aug 2007 10:01:20 in MDI-First Word, Market Data Insight
Your loyal editor-in-chief enjoyed recounting, quite often, his highly amusing quip that he represented the earliest and best example of integration between Dow Jones and Telerate. Back in the early 1980s, as a young editorial assistant on the Monitor Desk of the Wall Street Journal Europe in Brussels, one of his late-night functions was to punch in the digits 7676 et al to a Telerate slave screen keypad, print out the latest U.S. Treasury rates, and re-key them into the Journal’s galleys for publication in the paper the following day. Integration or what?
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