Dow Jones Newswires Launches Dow Jones Futures Service; New Product Will Provide Extensive Coverage of Futures Markets

Business Wire, Nov 1, 2000

Business Editors

16th Annual Futures and Options Expo

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 1, 2000

Dow Jones Newswires announced today the launch of Dow Jones Futures Service, a new real-time service providing in-depth coverage of futures markets worldwide. Dow Jones Futures Service will leverage the global editorial and reporting resources of Dow Jones to bring futures brokers and traders the most comprehensive futures market coverage available. Demos for the product will begin at the 16th Annual Futures and Options Expo in Chicago on November 7-9.

Featuring unique wall-to-wall market news, commentary, columns, calendars, weather, statistics and market summaries, Dow Jones Futures Service is designed to bring professionals complete and essential information on interest rates, indexes, currencies, energy and traditional commodities. The service, available beginning today will also include DJ Market Talk, real-time insight into market trends and expectations.

"We've extended our long-standing strengths in financial and business reporting to create Dow Jones Futures Service," said Robert Prinsky, Dow Jones Newswires' Senior Editor for Product Development. "We will deliver fast, in-depth coverage on all aspects of the futures markets, as well as market insight that is second to none."

To make Dow Jones Futures Service a comprehensive resource, Dow Jones Newswires has increased its editorial staff and posted reporters on the floors of the Chicago Board of Trade and Chicago Mercantile Exchange. The new service will also draw on Dow Jones' 1,600 international editors and reporters in 16 reporting bureaus in the United States and 90 international cities, as well as an additional 2,700 journalists at The Associated Press, Dow Jones' partner in international financial newswires.

The new real-time service is projected to provide more than 1,700 items of unparalleled global futures market coverage each day. Dow Jones Futures Service will be accessible via several market data platforms.

In addition, Dow Jones Newswires will offer its own IP-based application, which will be powered by MoneyLine. This application includes delayed quotes from futures exchanges around the world.

About Dow Jones

Dow Jones Newswires provides real-time news for financial professionals across five asset classes: equities, fixed-income, foreign exchange, commodities and energy. The division also offers news for financial firms' Web sites. In addition to Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones & Company (NYSE:DJ; dj.com) publishes The Wall Street Journal and its international and online editions, Barron's and SmartMoney magazines and other periodicals, Dow Jones Indexes, and the Ottaway group of community newspapers. Dow Jones is co-owner with Reuters Group of Factiva, with Excite@Home of Work.com, and with NBC of the CNBC television operations in Asia and Europe. Dow Jones also provides news content to CNBC and radio stations in the U.S.