Important Message Regarding Your Reuters DataLink Sectors & Industries

We are pleased to announce that we are offering a new solution for the Reuters DataLink Sectors and Industries data. Our new solution will be utilizing the S&P sector and industry group classification, also known as the GICS (Global Industry Classification Standard). We feel that you’ll find this solution far superior to what has previously been offered, and are excited to be able to provide this to you. To learn more about the S&P GICS classifications, please visit their website.

The new securities will appear in the Open Dialog in both the Local Data and Reuters DataLink folders. In order to obtain access to this new data, you will need to update your local securities and symbol database. Once these files are updated you will see the new folders and new securities. We will be leaving the current sectors and industries solution active until April 5th. Starting April 6, 2009 we will no longer be updating the old files.

To learn more about this change and how to update MetaStock and your custom layouts and save charts with this new data, please see the attached document.