WHAT S NEW IN THOMSON REUTERS EIKON FOR JANUARY 2011 FIXED INCOME

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1 THOMSON REUTERS EIKON WHAT S NEW IN THOMSON REUTERS EIKON FOR JANUARY 2011 FIXED INCOME Thomson Reuters Training It is essential to keep up to date with new functionality and features for Thomson Reuters Eikon. This document outlines desktop enhancements in Thomson Reuters Eikon for Fixed Income. Content: What s New Charting...2 What s New Pricing and Valuation...3 What s New - Exploring Content...7 What s New Working With Communities...9 What s New Working With News...10 Need help or further training?...12 * The January 2011 release is dependant on installation of Service pack 1

2 WHAT S NEW CHARTING Improved features for CDS Quick Chart You can now Chart the CDS spread against its related equity in a single click. Simply tick the Chart Related Equity check box to launch the sub-chart with fully-customizable line styles and colors. View CDS in a separate screen with real time pricing, value-added analytics, reference data and more. Just click the icon to launch the Quote object. 2

3 How to access? The New CDS Quick Chart is available from the main Quick Chart menu. WHAT S NEW PRICING AND VALUATION The Zero Coupon Builder now allows fixings as well as other asset class instruments for User defined curves You can now use Fixings such as Libor rates as input to your User defined zero curves as well as enter a specific Instrument Code (RIC - Reuters Instrument Code) as value. 3

4 How to access? In your flex document, click on the Insert button of the document toolbar and select calculator. From the Calculator Homepage select ZC Builder and click Instrument Selection. Agency-Option Adjusted Spread performs in-depth OAS and Price analysis on Agency European callable bonds The new Agency-Option Adjusted Spread performs in-depth OAS and Price analysis on an Agency European callable bond, including spread comparison with benchmark bonds and total return simulations. 4

5 How to access? In your flex document, click on the Insert button of the document toolbar and select calculator. From the Calculator Homepage select PREVIEW Agency Option Adjusted Spread. You can also go to Related from a US Agency bond quote object. 5

6 Personalize the All Quote Calculator display. The All Quote display from Thomson Reuters provides users who need to look at market depth for a Bond with a single composite view of all price sources. The All Quote display has been improved so the user now has control of the order in which quotes are displayed, including sort by order, criteria, yield display and stale prices. Users can also search for content by Best Bid/Ask, Best Bid, Best Ask and Alphabetically. How to Access? The All Quote display can be accessed via Bond Views or by using the right mouse click functionality on a given bond. 6

7 WHAT S NEW - EXPLORING CONTENT Tradeweb Price Discovery Guide The new Tradeweb Price Discovery Guide brings together a better and more flexible way to view Tradeweb premium market data over Thomson Reuters Eikon. The Price Discovery Guide is customizable so users can select the content they want to view across a wide range of displays for the multiple markets on offer from Tradeweb. Spread and other analytic tools are also embedded in the display including credit and rates content from Thomson Reuters. From the guide users can right click to raise a request for quote over the Tradeweb trading platform. 7

8 How to access? Tradeweb Price Discovery can be accessed through Guides or simply through Search, by typing Tradeweb in the search box. 8

9 WHAT S NEW WORKING WITH COMMUNITIES Revamp of My Profile page with consolidation of your personal details and increased space for your commentaries. A re-design of the My Profile page: The sections of the profile have been split and can now be edited separately, rather than as part of a large editable form. 9

10 Privacy settings can be grouped for relevant fields: How to access? To open your profile page, click on My Profile in the My Eikon menu. From there, click on the appropriate edit button to make changes to that part of your profile. WHAT S NEW WORKING WITH NEWS Personalise Content Explorer News components default language. When changing the Languages Read preference, the appropriate news language code(s) will be applied to news searches done via Search News or the Advance News Search in Content Explorer. The News Search Result View will then only show headline results for the search expression entered that also match the news language code(s) selected in the Preference. Note: the setting will apply to News widgets embedded in the Content explorer Guides and Views, with the exception of Top News components. 10

11 How to access? Under My Eikon > My Preferences users can choose one ore multiple news languages: 11

12 NEED HELP OR FURTHER TRAINING? Use the Support Links on the left hand side of your Thomson Reuters Eikon Home Page to quickly and easily get help, contact us, request training and access On-Demand training modules and find information on new features within the product. You can access comprehensive on-demand elearning modules by clicking on the Training link from the Support links on your Home Page and/or register for our interactive training sessions directly via our website: You can contact your local training centre. 12