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Dow Jones starts "Corporate Governance" Nl & Web site "1 Stop Pro".


Dow Jones Dow Jones

the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202]

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 Newsletters (Jersey City, NJ) has begun the publication of Dow Jones Corporate Governance Dow Jones Corporate Governance is a newsletter from Dow Jones that covers corporate governance topics ranging from governance conflicts that are still unsettled in corporate law, to proxy contests to shareholder activism. Executive compensation is also frequently covered by CG. , a weekly newsletter focusing on governance news and issues. An annual subscription to the new title costs $1800.

The publication is being targeted to corporate executives and directors, audit and financial professionals, accounting and law firms This list of the world's largest law firms by revenue is taken from The Lawyer and The American Lawyer and is ordered by 2006 revenue:[1]
  1. Clifford Chance, £1,030.2m – International law firm (headquartered in the UK);
  2. Linklaters, £935.
, investment banks The following is a list of investment banks Financial conglomerates
Large financial-services conglomerates combine commercial banking and investment banking, and sometimes insurance.
, brokerage houses, institutional investors and asset managers. The newsletter will be mailed to subscribers every Thursday.

Dow Jones said the newsletter provides "insight into how companies should be run, focusing on (cont'd on p. 6) corporate boards, disclosure, auditor relationships and related issues." Editorial covers such topics as composition of corporate boards, auditor independence, executive pay and perks, accounting for stock options and governance best practices. It will also include case studies of corporate "strengths and weaknesses," and listings of auditor changes and companies that expense stock options.

In related news, Wall Street Source, Inc. (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
), an Internet provider of financial news and information, 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 1 Stop Pro, a Internet information resource for buy-and sell-side market professionals, including analysts, money managers and traders. The site integrates more than 100 sources of financial news, information and data, including editorial from Dow Jones News Service and Wall Street Source.
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