Thomson Municipal Market Monitor (TM3) at a glance:

TM3 is a new integrated Internet/Intranet data service that offers municipal market participants services currently marketed separately by Thomson Market Information Services. The following is a summary.

Content: News and Money Markets: *Municipal news (including The Bond Buyer, Munifacts, and Municipal Market Data)

*Leading market indices (currently available on Munifacts.) *Disclosure information and alerts (currently available on Munifacts and MuniView)

ata/Analysis: *Muller Data/MuniView

*Municipal Market Data

*CDA Spectrum

*CDA Wiesenberger

Additional Services: *Dalcomp

*Red Book

Primary Market:*All Syndicates - negotiated sales.

*Competitive sales - worksheets (both currently available on Munifacts.)

Secondary Market: *Broker pages - search offerings

*Dealer offerings

Delivery Method: Users can choose one of three ways to receive the data: *Private TCP/IP network connection (a dedicated line, which is the fastest way to receive information.)

*Internet (a shared line with all other users of the Internet)

*Dial-Up (A dedicated line, which is less expensive than a TCP/IP connection but does not share lines like the Internet does. To be offered later this year.)

TCP/IP: Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, a set of rules that govern the exchange of information between two computers. Both communicating computers must use the same protocol to exchange data successfully.

Source: Thomson Market Information Services