New York, May 27, 2010 - Thomson Reuters today announced that it has agreed to
acquire Point Carbon A/S, a Norwegian-based leading provider of essential
trading analytics, news and content for the energy and environmental markets.

This acquisition strengthens Thomson Reuters offerings to the energy sector
through the combination of Point Carbon's critical insight, market fundamentals
and powerful analytics of key price drivers with Thomson Reuters leading news
and pricing service.

Point Carbon provides banks, traders, portfolio managers, corporations and
governments with critical insights based on deep industry knowledge and
sophisticated modelling capabilities across the carbon, power, and gas markets.
Point Carbon's valuable demand, supply and price predictive models are based on
proprietary data collection and are used by thousands of traders and analysts
globally.

Technological advances are increasing the breadth, depth and frequency with
which information is available on physical commodity flows and fundamentals,
such as power production, consumption and weather, as well as events like
political actions or operational outages.  As global economic development
continues to boost energy needs in a carbon constrained world, the combination
of Thomson Reuters and Point Carbon will deliver the critical information and
tools to allow market participants to optimize their business, investment and
trading strategies in this evolving marketplace.

Shaun Sibley, Global Head of Commodities & Energy, Thomson Reuters, said, "This
acquisition underscores Thomson Reuters commitment to the global energy markets
and supports our growth plans for our leading commodity and energy business.
 Thomson Reuters clients will benefit from greater expertise and highly
innovative technologies that will provide further granularity and a more
sophisticated view of market conditions and their impact on price and trading.
We will look to expanding our business to new customers, geographies and asset
classes."

Per-Otto Wold, CEO and Co-founder of Point Carbon, said, "Point Carbon has
experienced excellent growth over the last 10 years and currently holds leading
positions in our areas of focus.  I truly believe that combining Thomson Reuters
and Point Carbon is an excellent union of forces that will take Point Carbon to
the next level."

Following integration, Point Carbon content will be available through Thomson
Reuters Eikon, the company's new desktop offering to be launched later this
year.  In addition Reuters Insider, Thomson Reuters recently launched financial
video platform, will begin broadcasting from Oslo and elsewhere around the world
programs on the energy and environmental markets using Point Carbon's analysts
and proprietary data.

The transaction is expected to close in the coming weeks.  The terms of the
agreement were not disclosed.

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