TECH TUESDAY: Nasdaq Offers Global Index Via Rimes Data Service

Exchange operator Nasdaq OMX is now going to offer trade data on almost 9,000 global securities via the Rimes benchmark data service.

The total floating market cap of the newly available securities is approximately $41.8 trillion.

RIMES Benchmark Data Service formats NASDAQ Index Data according to a trader’s specific criteria, and delivers it through files customized to fit each client’s systems, ready to be used within their applications. RIMES BDS is a fully managed data service that covers all the elements of good data processing.

“Deepening our partnership with RIMES provides their clients access to NASDAQ OMX’s full range of global equity indexes to benchmark their portfolios and respond to client demand for competing benchmark options.” said Oliver Albers, vp of sales for global data products, NASDAQ OMX, in a release.

The new Global Index family data joins several other sets of indexes that are available on the Rimes system. The following seven index families have been available on RIMES since 2011:

NASDAQ OMX Nordic/Baltic Indexes
NASDAQ Commodity Indexes
NASDAQ/PHLX Indexes
NASDAQ Green Economy Indexes
NASDAQ Dividend & Income Indexes
NASDAQ OMX Nordic Fixed Income Indexes
NASDAQ Axioma Equity-Commodity Indexes