Thomson Reuters To Buy Breakingviews.com?

Thomson Reuters (TRI) is in :”advanced talks” to buy the financial news site Breakingviews.com for about 10 million pounds, or about $16.2 million, according to London’s Sunday Times. The story said the two companies have been in talks on a deal since July. Breakingviews has about 15,000 subscribers, and syndicates content in a number of newspapers, including The New York Times, Le Monde, El Pais and Handelsblatt. The story notes that there are more than 40 holders in Breakingviews, including the Wall Street Journal, which at one point had been publishing some of the site’s content in the paper.

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