Providing on-line financial services via the Internet, interconnected computer systems, networking infrastructures, messaging systems, and/or wireless communication devices, in real-time or delayed, namely, providing financial information and exchange services relating to purchasing and selling of commodities, futures, derivatives, and/or options; providing via the Internet, interconnected computer systems, networking infrastructures, messaging systems, and/or wireless communication devices real-time and historic financial information relating to global markets, currencies, commodities, futures, derivatives, and/or options; providing financial information, in real-time or delayed, in the nature of financial product data, market data, market views, market analysis, volume data, settlement data, order data, quantity data, date data, time data, trade-type data, status data, contract symbol data, index data, price data, quote data, historical data, transaction summaries and market depth data relating to global markets, currencies, commodities, futures, derivatives, and/or options; providing financial information in the nature of live prices, live charts, live news, technical studies, historical charts, and weather maps in the nature of models that evaluate dynamic changes in the financial markets based on the systematic collection and analysis of financial information; providing subscription services enabling participants to view, via a terminal or mobile communication device, real-time and historic financial information; providing via the Internet, interconnected computer systems, networking infrastructures, messaging systems, and/or wireless communication devices real-time and historic information relating to the purchasing, selling administering, managing, monitoring, evaluating, and tracking of global financial markets, currencies, commodities, futures, derivatives and/or options; providing financial services in the nature of monitoring, evaluating and tracking of global financial markets, and offering, sponsoring, managing, and administering of currencies, commodities, derivatives, futures, and/or options for purchase or sale; providing financial information regarding processing, analyzing, assessing, charting, displaying, storing, compiling, and exporting financial information