WSJ.COM CUSTOMIZES VIEW OF GLOBAL INVESTMENTS.The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition (http://wsj.com), Princeton Princeton, borough (1990 pop. 12,016) and surrounding township (1990 pop. 13,198), Mercer co., W central N.J.; settled late 1600s, borough inc. 1813, township est. 1838. A leading education center, it is the seat of Princeton Univ. , N.J., has introduced a new, greatly expanded portfolio that lets Interactive Journal subscribers create a highly customized view of their global investments. Subscribers now can monitor London London, city, Canada London, city (1991 pop. 303,165), SE Ont., Canada, on the Thames River. The site was chosen in 1792 by Governor Simcoe to be the capital of Upper Canada, but York was made capital instead. London was settled in 1826. , Toronto Toronto (tərŏn`tō), city (1998 est pop. 2,400,000), provincial capital, S Ont., Canada, on Lake Ontario. Toronto is the largest city in Canada and since the 1970s has been one of the fastest-changing cities in North America, experiencing and Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. stocks, plus U.S. options and cash in 57 currencies in addition to U.S. stocks and mutual funds. The new feature offers more than 40 display options. Subscribers can also add personal notes on any issue and set the portfolio's currency and time zone to match their needs. One-click access to dynamic stock charts is also available. "We have one of the most extensive offerings of financial-market news and data available anywhere - plus the insightful commentary and analysis that puts it all in perspective," said Neil F. Budde, vice president and editor of The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition. "Now, with the addition of our new portfolio, we're we're Contraction of we are. we're we are extending that package, giving our subscribers the powerful tools they need to create a highly customized view of the investment data that's most important to them." The new portfolio is just one of the many features launched by the Interactive Journal during its third year, in which circulation topped 283,000 subscribers - a figure that helped the publication maintain its leadership position among paid-subscription sites. "We're very pleased with our record paid circulation," said Tom Baker, general manager and vice president of the Interactive Journal. "Our highly desirable demographics The attributes of people in a particular geographic area. Used for marketing purposes, population, ethnic origins, religion, spoken language, income and age range are examples of demographic data. and our continued commitment to site enhancements to meet our subscribers needs are extremely appealing to our growing list of advertisers." International Focus For the last two years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time Interactive Journal has maintained consistent focus on the global business community, adding resources, including special reporting on major market-moving events in Europe Europe (y  r`əp), 6th largest continent, c.4,000,000 sq mi (10,360,000 sq km) including adjacent islands (1992 est. pop. 512,000,000). and
Asia. Working to address a broader range of needs for the international
subscriber base, which is growing by 40% a year, The Wall Street Journal
Interactive Edition will soon offer tracking of Japanese Japanese (jăp'ənēz`), language of uncertain origin that is spoken by more than 125 million people, most of whom live in Japan. There are also many speakers of Japanese in the Ryukyu Islands, Korea, Taiwan, parts of the United States, and securities
issues and currencies. Some of the features that have expanded the
site's global focus in the last year include:
-- Briefing Books for non-U.S. companies, bringing the total number of these detailed company background reports that include financial data and recent news to 22,000. -- Data and custom-charting capabilities for stocks in Canada, United Kingdom and Hong Kong. -- A reporting staff exclusively dedicated to non-U.S. business and markets coverage in Hong Kong. -- Home pages for Europe (http://wsje.com/) and Asia (http://awsj.com/), each offering content focused on readers in those regions as well as access to information from The Wall Street Journal Europe and The Asian Wall Street Journal. -- Subscribers can also access the essential business and financial news of an extensive list of countries by accessing dedicated country news pages. Recent Enhancements: Also in the last year, the Interactive Journal has added the following: -- More original reporting, including Dodge's E-conomy, written by PC WEEK editor John Dodge. -- Mutual Fund Briefing Books: Comprehensive reports on more than 7,100 U.S. mutual funds are now available. -- Expanded search archive: 30 days of searchable news from The Wall Street Journal, the Interactive Journal, Barron's Online 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 . Awards and Citations: The Interactive Journal often cited for outstanding reporting and news analysis, has recently been awarded Brill's Content's Best of the Web (April 1999). It is one of PC Magazine's Top 100 sites (March, 1999), and one of Yahoo! Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the Life's Best Sites of 1998. About The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition Introduced in April 1996, The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition features continuously updated coverage of the full spectrum of business news both in the U.S. and around the world, prepared by a dedicated news staff, supported by the global resources of The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires. Subscribers have access to more than 22,000 in-depth background reports on companies, an archive of news articles, and personal news and stock portfolios. Subscribers can also search the vast 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 Publications Library, featuring current and past articles from 6,000 newspapers, magazines and business-news sources. The Interactive Journal has paid circulation of more than 283,000 subscribers. Subscriptions cost $59 annually or $29 per year for subscribers of any print edition of the Journal or Barron's. About Dow Jones Dow Jones Interactive Publishing provides business and financial news and information products to corporations and consumers. In addition to The Wall Street Journal and its international and interactive editions, Dow Jones & Company (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :DJ) publishes Barron's and SmartMoney magazines and other periodicals, Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones Indexes, Dow Jones Interactive and the Ottaway group of community newspapers. Dow Jones is co-owner of CNBC CNBC Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (artificial intelligence) CNBC Consumer News and Business Channel CNBC Congress of National Black Churches, Inc. television operations in Asia and Europe, and also provides news content to CNBC in the U.S. For more information, call (609)520-4638. |
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