MarketWatch
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MarketWatch is a website that provides financial information, business news, analysis, and stock market data. It is a subsidiary of Dow Jones & Company, a property of News Corp, along with The Wall Street Journal and ''Barron's.''
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- Website
- Country
- United States
- Owned by
- Dow Jones & Company
- Parent organization
- News Corporation
- Industry
- journalism
- Official website
- www.marketwatch.com
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- 1250
- social media followers
- 80100
- title
- MarketWatch
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MarketWatch is a website that provides financial information, business news, analysis, and stock market data. It is a subsidiary of Dow Jones & Company, a property of News Corp, along with The Wall Street Journal and ''Barron's.
==History== The company was conceived as DBC Online by Data Broadcasting Corporation in the fall of 1995. The marketwatch.com domain name was registered on July 30, 1997. The website launched on October 30, 1997, as a 50/50 joint venture between DBC and CBS News, then run by Larry Kramer and co-founder and chairman, Derek Reisfield. Thom Calandra was its first editor-in-chief.
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