Thomson Financial has announced the addition of 1,800 new economic data series from China. These series significantly expand the coverage in such high-demand areas as foreign and domestic investment, money, banking, finance and employment, and provide Thomson Financial customers access to a total of more than 5,400 series on China.
“China is now the world’s third largest importer and fourth largest exporter, with more than half of those exports the result of foreign direct investment. Market participants around the world are searching for quality data from China and have asked Thomson Financial to help fill that void,” said Douglas B. Taylor, managing director, Customer Segment Management & Marketing – Asia, Thomson Financial. “We are pleased to respond to these requests, and meet this growing demand, with a 50% increase in our China economic data coverage. The release of these new economic data series, combined with our extensive access to Chinese company fundamentals, including all listed domestic securities on the Shenzhen and Shanghai stock exchanges, B and H-shares, A-shares and red-chips listed in Hong Kong, provide our Thomson ONE, Thomson Datastream and Thomson Worldscope clients the most comprehensive China coverage available.”