Dow Jones Newsletters' new titles focus on coffee and cocoa--and the current reform movement in accounting practices. (Launches).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 Newsletters, Jersey City, N.J., and OsterDow-Jones, Lombard, Illinois Lombard, "The Lilac Village", is a suburb of Chicago in DuPage County, Illinois. The population was 42,322 at the 2000 census. The United States Census Bureau estimated the population in 2004 to be 42,975. , which is a joint venture between Oster Communications and Dow Jones Newswires Dow Jones Newswires is the real-time financial news organization owned by Dow Jones. Founded in 1882, its primary competitors are Bloomberg L.P. and Reuters. The company reports more than 420,000 subscribers -- including brokers, traders, analysts and fund managers -- as of July , have launched two weekly newsletters: * OsterDowJones Cocoa Report, published every Wednesday, reports on the physical markets in West Africa West Africa A region of western Africa between the Sahara Desert and the Gulf of Guinea. It was largely controlled by colonial powers until the 20th century. West African adj. & n. , Europe and Asia, as well as on the European cocoa butter cocoa butter n. A yellowish-white fatty solid obtained from cacao seeds and used as an ingredient in cosmetics, tanning oils, chocolate, and soap. Also called cacao butter. market. It also provides news for the confectionary industry, including sugar news, markets, and prices. * OsterDowlones Essential Coffee, published every Friday, offers news from Mexico, Brazil, Columbia, Vietnam, London, Singapore, Kenya, and Uganda. It also carries weekly reports on cash markets and prices. NL/NL talked to two editors in different offices, and neither could explain the relationship of the Dow Jones Company, Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones Newsletters, Oster Communications, and OsterDowJones. But a director of business development at OsterDowJones said that that limited liability corporation's ownership is two-thirds Oster (principally in charge of the technology side) and one-third Dow Jones (responsible for content). Veteran newsletter publishers might recall the venerable Merrill J. Oster, publisher of the 1973 founded Pro Farmer, as well as other commodities newsletters. In somewhat related news, Dow Jones Newsletters has responded to the current corporate accounting scandals Accounting scandals, or corporate accounting scandals are political and business scandals which arise with the disclosure of misdeeds by trusted executives of large public corporations. with the launch of the weekly Dow Jones' Re-Balancing the Books, which focuses on accounting practices and current efforts to reform them. The newsletter (which is also offering site licenses) will offer both original articles and news from Dow Jones Newswires. www.osterdowjones.com, www.dowjones.com. |
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