	reuters chairman urges freer information flows exchanges and telecommunications authorities should abolish their restrictions on full and free dissemination of information to the investment and banking communities reuters holdings plc rtrs l chairman sir christopher hogg said in the annual repoprt he said lengthy negotiations had brought agreement with the tokyo and london stock exchanges for fuller but still not complete access to market data through reuter services many other markets maintain restrictions he added hogg said members of some markets appear to believe that information restrictions protected their interests in other cases exchanges seem to be limiting the distribution of data in order to provide competitive advantage to their own commercial information businesses he also noted that despite increasing liberalisation in the telecommunications field some countries continue to protect their state monopolies at the expense of other economic sectors reuter dealing services remain excluded from such countries as a result banking communities serving entire economies are put at a competitive disadvantage he added reuters increased its pre tax profit by pct from the previous year to mln stg on a pct rise in revenues to mln stg ings per ordinary share were up pct to p the annual shareholder meeting will be held in london on april reuter 
