Bitcoin Pricing From BitStamp Added to Thomson Reuters Eikon Platform
Bloomberg made some news recently with the inclusion of bitcoin prices in their industry-leading Bloomberg Terminal trading platform, Thomson Reuters is following suit. The company announced on Monday that they have included BitStamp USD/BTC prices in their own trading platform, Eikon. The information company, which perhaps most popularly (to the common person) runs news the Reuters news service says the decision to include bitcoin prices came primarily from customer demand. Information available for traders will include (quoted): Traded rates and volumes (in BTC). TOB Bid/Ask. Daily....
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International media and information firm Thomson Reuters, the parent company of global financial news agency and financial market data provider Reuters, has added bitcoin pricing information to its Eikon trading software. Offering a mix of news, markets data and analytics, Thomson Reuters Eikon was launched as a competitor to Bloomberg terminals, the 320,000-subscriber strong tool that helps empower Wall Street and professional traders. Eikon will now display the price of bitcoin in USD as tracked by major Europe-based digital currency exchange Bitstamp. Thomson Reuters cited strong....
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