sentences:  The Company was founded by Paul Julius Reuter in 1851 in London as a business transmitting stock market quotations.Reuter set up his "Submarine Telegraph" office in October 1851 and negotiated a contract with the London Stock Exchange to provide stock prices from the continental exchanges in return for access to London prices, which he then supplied to stockbrokers in Paris, France.In 1865, Reuters in London was the first organization to report the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.