Article: Thomson Financial Acquires Full Ownership of First Call.

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 21, 2001

Purchases Outstanding Shares From Eight Brokerage Partners

Thomson Financial announced today that it has purchased the outstanding minority shares of First Call Corporation, the leading provider of real-time, commingled broker research, analyst estimates, workflow and technology based solutions. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Thomson Financial, which founded First Call in 1984, previously owned 52 percent of the shares, and purchased the remaining 48 percent of shares from its eight strategic brokerage partners, including: Credit Suisse First Boston, Salomon Smith ...

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