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Forestweb's prices to be listed on Bloomberg Professional Service
LOS ANGELES, Nov 27, 2001 - Forestweb Inc. will be providing its pricing for market pulp, publication grade papers, stumpage, and logs to users of the Bloomberg Professional service. The Los Angeles-based Forestweb has signed an agreement with Bloomberg that offers subscribers to the Bloomberg Professional service access to both Forestweb Exclusive content and the option to subscribe to benchmark pricing from PriceBeat. Forestweb Exclusive content includes Forestweb's staff written market reviews. PriceBeat is an online subscription-based price and information service. Pulp prices include prices in the U.S. for northern bleached softwood kraft (NBSK), southern bleached softwood kraft (SBSK), northern bleached hardwood kraft (NBHK), southern bleached hardwood kraft (SBHK), and bleached eucalyptus kraft (BEK). The price in Europe for NBSK is also offered. Forestweb's pulp prices are reported by Diane Keaton. Ms. Keaton has been covering market pulp for the past seven years and for the past 22 months as an editor and reporter with Forestweb. Ms. Keaton has been described by a pulp executive as "arguably the most knowledgeable market pulp authority in the public domain." Publication grade prices include newsprint, hi-brite, supercalendered (SC-A), 40-lb coated #5, and 60-lb coated #3. Uncoated free-sheet grades include 50-lb offset rolls and 20-lb cut size (copy paper). Reel Time newsletter editors Verle Sutton and Ross Hay-Roe provide Forestweb the pricing for publication and communication papers. Reel Time is a monthly newsletter offering analysis and forecasts for printing paper markets. Forest2Market provides Forestweb stumpage prices for pine pulpwood, pine chip-n-saw, pine sawtimber, hardwood pulpwood, and hardwood sawtimber for three southern regions - west south, mid-south, and east south. Stumpage refers to the price of timber before it has been harvested. Forest2Market is the leading provider of timber pricing information for the U.S. South. Logs are a major export market to the Pacific Rim, with Japan being the largest importer of U.S. logs. Forestweb's log prices are available through Pacific Rim Wood Market Report, a Forestweb publication. It is the only comprehensive timber industry newsletter that covers U.S. domestic and export log markets, providing prices, trends, and analyses. About Bloomberg: Bloomberg L.P. is a global, multi-media based distributor of information services, combining news, data and analysis for financial markets and businesses. Bloomberg provides real-time pricing, historical pricing, indicative data, analytics and electronic communications 24 hours a day through 162,000 BLOOMBERG Professional systems used by over 200,000 financial professionals in 126 countries. Bloomberg media includes television, radio, publishing and Internet operations worldwide. About Forestweb: Los Angeles-based Forestweb, Inc., the primary online business solution provider for people associated with the global forest products industry, is the single site on the Internet whose focus spans the entire breadth of forest products, from standing timber to chips, pulp and paper to recycling, logs and lumber to engineered wood. Forestweb generates, aggregates, and publishes news and information about the industry concerning market conditions, prices, inventory and corporate finances. You can access the same prices on Forestweb's PriceBeat. Sign up today at http://www.forestweb.com/pricebeat --
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