加拿大汤姆逊公司欲收购路透财经

　　Thomson Corp. made a bid for Reuters Group Plc to gain aglobalnews service and challenge Bloomberg LP, the largest provideroffinancial news and information, according to a personwithknowledge of the offer.

　　Reuters is preparing to accept the offer, the FinancialTimesreported. Reuters yesterday said it received a bid from acompanyit didnt identify, sending the stock up a record 25 percentandpropelling the London-based companys market value to 7.75billionpounds ($15.4 billion).

　　Reuters would vault Thomsons share of the financial datamarketto 34 percent from 11 percent, compared with Bloombergs33percent, based on 2006 statistics from Inside Market Data,anindustry researcher.

　　Thomson spokesman Jason Stewart would neither confirm nor denythecompany made an offer.

　　据知情者称，总部在多伦多的汤姆逊公司已正式向路透财经发出收购建议，目的是扩大公司的全球新闻服务范围，挑战全球最大金融新闻和资讯供应商彭博公司。

　　据报道，路透财经正准备接受这个收购方案。路透财经昨天表示，在接到匿名收购者的收购建议后，该公司的股价猛涨25%，公司总市值达到77.5亿英镑(约合154亿美元)。

　　行业研究机构InsideMarketData根据去年统计数据分析，路透财经的加入将使汤姆逊的金融信息市场份额由当前的11%猛增至34%，而彭博资讯当前份额为33%。

　　汤姆逊公司发言人Jason Stewart既未承认也不否认此收购路透财经的建议。

　　作者：董莉