S&P/TSX Canadian Bond Index Data Now Available Via Bloomberg - Underscores Standard & Poor’s Ongoing Effort To Increase Access To Valuable Content

Standard & Poor’s, the world’s leading index provider, today announced that its S&P/TSX Canadian Bond Index data is now available via the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL® service, the leading data, news and analytics source for the financial community with more than 250,000 users worldwide.

Making this set of comprehensive data available via the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL service, is part of Standard & Poor's ongoing efforts to deliver its trusted and respected content to its clients—fund managers, financial advisors, portfolio analysts, risk managers, trust officers, and other financial services professionals—in the method they prefer.

"Integrating S&P/TSX Canadian Bond Index data with Bloomberg's analytics creates a powerful set of capabilities for our customers in the marketplace," said Steve Rive, vice president of Standard & Poor’s Canadian Index Services. "This relationship provides an additional channel for financial services professionals to access Standard & Poor's widely used fixed income information."

Bloomberg users can access S&P/TSX Canadian Bond Index data via the function ALLX STBX on the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL service. Users can link the resultant Standard & Poor's Canadian Bond Index data to spreadsheets, Word documents, and other applications through ticker symbols assigned by Bloomberg. Additionally, users can utilize Bloomberg's analytics to run additional calculations, such as viewing total return for any user-defined period of time since the index began in 2005.

Access and analysis of S&P/TSX Canadian Bond Index data via the BLOOMBERG PROFESSIONAL service allows Standard & Poor's to meet the increased demand on the part of investors and regulators for more transparent and automated bond market information.