Comprehensive Commodities Service Debuts On Dow Jones Telerate Network.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--February 27, 1996--Finally, commodities professionals have a Dow Jones Dow Jones the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202] See : Finance news service to call their own. The Dow Jones Commodities Service, launched today by Dow Jones Telerate, covers the broad spectrum of commodities, delivering timely, accurate prices; exclusive news, market reports and commentary; and technical analysis. "Market professionals depend on Dow Jones for reliable, ahead-of-the-pack financial news and market information to help maximize their trading profits," said Paul Ingrassia Paul Ingrassia is president of Dow Jones Newswires, a unit of Dow Jones & Company. Ingrassia was awarded the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting along with Joseph B. , vice president and executive editor of Dow Jones News Services. "That was the benchmark we used in the more than one year we spent developing the Dow Jones Commodities Service. It had to be the information service commodities professionals could rely on." Dow Jones commodities news desks in Singapore, London and New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of direct the coverage of full-time commodities reporters stationed in trading and production centers around the world. The commodities service also draws on the extensive resources of other Dow Jones news services and publications, including AP-Dow Jones, The Wall Street Journal, Barron's and the Far Eastern Economic Review. Available exclusively from Dow Jones Telerate, the Dow Jones Commodities Service covers all sectors of the commodities markets: metals; grains and oils; meat and livestock; materials, such as rubber, textiles and lumber; soft commodities, including coffee, sugar, cocoa, citrus, tea, spices; and financial futures financial futures Obligations to buy or sell particular positions in financial instruments. The features of financial futures are identical to those of any futures contract except that the asset for delivery is of a financial nature. . Extensive price information includes cash, futures and options prices for each type of commodity from trading centers worldwide. "This is a remarkably comprehensive commodities service, with more than 1,000 pages of information," Mr. Ingrassia said. "It's been organized so users can easily locate exactly what they want: raw silk prices on the Yokohama exchange; soybean soybean, soya bean, or soy pea, leguminous plant (Glycine max, G. soja, or Soja max) of the family Leguminosae (pulse family), native to tropical and warm temperate regions of Asia, where it has been prices in Chicago, Kansai or Buenos Aires; our exclusive cash pricings of strategic metals, such as antimony antimony (ăn`tĭmō'nē) [Lat. antimoneum], semimetallic chemical element; symbol Sb [Lat. stibium,=a mark]; at. no. 51; at. wt. 121.75; m.p. 630.74°C;; b.p. 1,750°C;; sp. gr. (metallic form) 6. , gallium and wolframite wolframite (w  l`frəmīt'), reddish-brown to grayish-black lustrous mineral, a tungstate of iron and manganese, (Fe,Mn)Wo4, occurring in crystals of the monoclinic system. ." The service also includes AgResource's expert commentary and forecasts of price trends for global markets and weather forecasts by the Weather Services Corporation. Lloyd's of London Not to be confused with Lloyds Bank or Lloyd's Register. Lloyd's of London is a British insurance market. It serves as a meeting place where multiple financial backers or “members”, whether individuals (traditionally known as provides information on shipping conditions worldwide. A number of optional services are available for an additional charge, including Platt's Metals Bulletin, Elliott Wave Technical Analysis and Barlow Jonker Coal Update. One of Dow Jones & Company's largest business units, Dow Jones Telerate is a leading global provider of real-time financial information, decision-support products, trading room systems and transaction services. Dow Jones also publishes The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, other business periodicals, business and financial newswires, other electronic business information services See Information Systems. , business television services and community newspapers. Telerate is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Telerate, Inc. CONTACT: Dow Jones Telerate Press Contact: Sanford Jacobs (201) 938-4328 |
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