S&P/TOPIX150, a stock index, began to be publicly disseminated on a real-time basis with 15 sec. intervals through TSE's Market Information System today, on April 9, 2001. The index was developed jointly by S&P and TSE in 1998, and daily closing values of the index have been calculated and made public since August 1999. Previously, real-time index values had been available only by Reuters terminals.
The Index is calculated on behalf of S&P and the Tokyo Stock Exchange by Reuters using state-of-the-art software from UK based software firm Kinetic Information System Services Ltd.
From April 9, real-time values of the index are available through STV, Reuters and other information vendors.
