Finance & economics | Economic data
Peeking early
A continuing kerfuffle over releases of privately sourced data
|NEW YORK
DATA releases stir emotions as well as moving markets. Concerns have grown about trading firms getting early peeks of certain releases. The case causing the biggest fuss is a widely watched consumer-sentiment index distributed by Thomson Reuters under a contract with the University of Michigan.
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