Dow Jones Indexes Now Available Through Most Popular Chinese Web Site -- SINANET.com; Financial Index to be Listed in Chinese for the First Time.CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 4, 1998--SINANET.com, the premier Internet portal for Chinese users around the world, and 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 & Co. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :DJ), today announced the addition of the Dow Jones Indexes to SINANET.com's offerings of business and financial information. It is the first time the index will be available in Chinese. The Dow Jones Index tracks more than 2,900 companies representing more than 80% of the world's equity capital. It consists of about 3,000 indexes, covering 34 countries, 13 regions, nine market sectors and 121 industry groups. DJGI's regional indexes include Asia/Pacific and Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, region of Asia (1990 est. pop. 442,500,000), c.1,740,000 sq mi (4,506,600 sq km), bounded roughly by the Indian subcontinent on the west, China on the north, and the Pacific Ocean on the east. . "The global index will provide our users the most comprehensive information about the political, economic and financial forces affecting global markets," said Daniel Chiang, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of SINANET.com. "Dow Jones has more than 100 years of experience in index calculation. Their indexes are timely, accurate and reliable, and now SINANET.com delivers that information in Chinese for the first time." "SINANET.com is a leader in providing timely and comprehensive business and financial information to Chinese Internet users Internet user n → internauta m/f Internet user Internet n → internaute m/f ," said Michael Petronella, managing director of Dow Jones Indexes. "SINANET.com will provide Dow Jones Indexes a unique opportunity to introduce an important audience to our worldwide stock index family." Using its SinaXPress(TM) technology SINANET.com will translate the content of the index to both traditional and simplified Chinese characters Simplified Chinese character (Simplified Chinese: 简体中文 or 简体字; Traditional Chinese: and display the correct format automatically from its Web site. Unlike the new Chinese Web sites offered by Yahoo! (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :YHOO YHOO Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ symbol) ), users do not need to download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. software or switch between two sites in order to see the information in the right Chinese format. The Dow Jones Indexes joins other financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. in
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About SINANET.com
Serving more than 40 million page views a month to 600,000 unique
visitors, SINANET.com is the most popular Chinese-language Web site on
the Internet, and the only forum for reaching all Chinese readers
around the world.
Like AOL (NASDAQ:AOL), Excite (NASDAQ:XCIT), and Lycos
(NASDAQ:XCIT), SINANET. com serves as an Internet portal, but
specifically for global Chinese.
Offering free e-mail, Chinese/English search engine, and the
latest in news, finance, business, education, on-line shopping, dating
services, and chat rooms, SINANET.com draws upscale, educated Chinese
professionals from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Beijing, Los Angeles, Australia
or New York -- literally anywhere there is an Internet connection.
To learn more about SINANET.com visit the English-language Web
pages under "About Sinanet" at http://www.sinanet.com/about/about.html
SINANET.com is privately held, with offices in Cupertino; New
York; Los Angeles and Taipei, Taiwan.
About Dow Jones
In addition to the Dow Jones Indexes, including the Dow Jones
Averages and the Dow Jones Global Indexes, Dow Jones & Co. publishes
The Wall Street Journal and its international editions, The Wall
Street Journal Interactive Edition, Barron's and Smart Money magazines
and other periodicals, electronic information services and the Ottaway
group of community newspapers.
Electronic information services include: Dow Jones Newswires and
Dow Jones Interactive Publishing. Dow Jones is co-owner with NBC of
the CNBC television operations in Asia and Europe, which are branded
"a service of NBC and Dow Jones." Dow Jones also provides news content
to CNBC in the U.S., which is similarly branded during the business
day. Worldwide, the new CNBC reaches more than 165 million homes.
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release, there is an "asterisk (1) See Asterisk PBX. (2) In programming, the asterisk or "star" symbol (*) means multiplication. For example, 10 * 7 means 10 multiplied by 7. The * is also a key on computer keypads for entering expressions using multiplication. " symbol between E and TRADE.
CONTACT: SINANET.com
Teresa Wang, 408/873-2882 ext. 322
teresa@staff.sinanet.com
or
DowJones & Co.
Richard Ciuba, 609/520-7172
rciuba@wsj.dowjones.com
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