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Reuters gets about 60 percent of its revenue from financial data, according to Inside Market Data.

Proxymed increased 7/8, to 6 1/2, after being recommended last Thursday by the Inside Market newsletter.

Bloomberg, estimates Inside Market Data, garners 88 percent of its $4.7 billion in revenue from selling financial data.

Inside Market Data is a weekly newsletter published by Incisive Media providing news for the financial market data industry.

"This has been their one remaining gap," said David Longobardi, an executive editor of Inside Market Data, a newsletter.

"They're not seeing any sharp growth, it's just slow and steady," said Ms. Zwanger of Inside Market Data.

They control about 83 percent of the $7 billion industry, with Bloomberg edging out Reuters with a 43 percent share, according to Inside Market Data.

"For Quotron to be a continuing force is almost impossible at this point," said Diana Finnegan, managing editor of Inside Market Data, an industry newsletter.

Reuters would lift Thomson's share of that market to 34 percent from 11 percent, compared with Bloomberg's 33 percent, according to Inside Market Data, a research firm.

Inside Market Data, a newsletter that first reported that Welsh Carson would buy Knight-Ridder Financial, also said a teleconference on the deal was to be conducted this morning.

Trade papers like Inside Market Data have reported morale problems among sales executives who face sharp pay cuts as their compensation packages are brought into line with the rest of Dow Jones.

The game grid was laid over a map of Xak Tsaroth, and the dragon side was moving small raiding parties through the back streets, down the storm drains, and inside market carts.

"What Bloomberg did was come to the market and appeal to a new set of users who had been underserved," said Andrew Delaney, senior vice president with Inside Market Data, an industry publication.

By comparison, Bloomberg continues to grow, though more and more slowly, according to Mr. McConville, the editor of Inside Market Data, a trade journal published by Risk Waters.

"Telerate is not the profit-generating franchise that it was, and it must make sizable investments to catch up a generation or two in technology," said Dennis Waters, publisher of the newsletter Inside Market Data.

Combined, Thomson and Reuters would have 34 percent of the market for financial data, according to David Anderson, editor of Inside Market Data Reference, which tracks the business, with Bloomberg at 33 percent.

By launching its Intel Inside marketing campaign in 1991, Intel was able to associate brand loyalty with consumer selection, so that by the end of the 1990s, its line of Pentium processors had become a household name.

In June, David Anderson, editor of the trade publication Inside Market Data Reference, estimated that Bloomberg had a 31 percent market share, compared with 23 percent for its rival Reuters, which bought the Telerate service last year.

On the personal computer horizon, Intel's biggest potential problems seem to be the disappointing results from its Intel Inside marketing campaign and the nagging possibility that the Power PC will actually make some inroads into its dominance in the so-called Intel-compatible world.

"Whether or not it's about shifting power dynamics among executives, it is symptomatic of the opening of the Bloomberg culture and the growing public influence of Grauer," said Samara Zwanger, executive editor of Inside Market Data, which tracks the financial data industry.