MarketWatch
Encyclopedia
MarketWatch operates a financial information website that provides business news, analysis and stock market data to some 6 million people. MarketWatch offers personal finance news and advice, tools for investors and access to industry research. Along with its flagship website, the company operates BigCharts.com and the stock market simulation site VirtualStockExchange.com. MarketWatch produces the syndicated MarketWatch Weekend television program and provides radio updates every 30 minutes on the MarketWatch.com Radio Network. It also offers subscription products for individual investors, including the Hulbert Financial Digest suite of products, Retirement Weekly and ETF Trader.
MarketWatch, formerly known as CBS
Marketwatch, operated in partnership with Viacom's CBS News
. Once a publicly traded company, MarketWatch was 45% owned by Viacom
(now CBS Corporation
after split from this company) and Pearson PLC
before Dow Jones acquired it in January 2005 for $530 million. It is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Dow Jones, which in turn is owned by News Corporation
. MarketWatch is part of Dow Jones' Consumer Media Group, along with The Wall Street Journal
, Barron's, the WSJ.com and affiliated Internet properties. Through the Rupert Murdoch
-controlled News Corp. ownership, MarketWatch is also affiliated with, among many other global media properties, the New York Post
, The Times
of London, Fox News Channel
and multiple other 20th Century Fox
spinoffs, and HarperCollins
publishers.
See also: List of assets owned by News Corporation
David Callaway is Editor-in-Chief. Peter Brimelow
is a contributor, amongst 16 columnists who supplement the news reporting.
MarketWatch, formerly known as CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
Marketwatch, operated in partnership with Viacom's CBS News
CBS News
CBS News is the news division of American television and radio network CBS. The current chairman is Jeff Fager who is also the executive producer of 60 Minutes, while the current president of CBS News is David Rhodes. CBS News' flagship program is the CBS Evening News, hosted by the network's main...
. Once a publicly traded company, MarketWatch was 45% owned by Viacom
Viacom
Viacom Inc. , short for "Video & Audio Communications", is an American media conglomerate with interests primarily in, but not limited to, cinema and cable television...
(now CBS Corporation
CBS Corporation
CBS Corporation is an American media conglomerate focused on commercial broadcasting, publishing, billboards and television production, with most of its operations in the United States. The President and CEO of the company is Leslie Moonves. Sumner Redstone, owner of National Amusements, is CBS's...
after split from this company) and Pearson PLC
Pearson PLC
Pearson plc is a global media and education company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is both the largest education company and the largest book publisher in the world, with consumer imprints including Penguin, Dorling Kindersley and Ladybird...
before Dow Jones acquired it in January 2005 for $530 million. It is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Dow Jones, which in turn is owned by News Corporation
News Corporation
News Corporation or News Corp. is an American multinational media conglomerate. It is the world's second-largest media conglomerate as of 2011 in terms of revenue, and the world's third largest in entertainment as of 2009, although the BBC remains the world's largest broadcaster...
. MarketWatch is part of Dow Jones' Consumer Media Group, along with The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international daily newspaper. It is published in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal....
, Barron's, the WSJ.com and affiliated Internet properties. Through the Rupert Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch
Keith Rupert Murdoch, AC, KSG is an Australian-American business magnate. He is the founder and Chairman and CEO of , the world's second-largest media conglomerate....
-controlled News Corp. ownership, MarketWatch is also affiliated with, among many other global media properties, the New York Post
New York Post
The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and is generally acknowledged as the oldest to have been published continuously as a daily, although – as is the case with most other papers – its publication has been periodically interrupted by labor actions...
, The Times
The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...
of London, Fox News Channel
Fox News Channel
Fox News Channel , often called Fox News, is a cable and satellite television news channel owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of News Corporation...
and multiple other 20th Century Fox
20th Century Fox
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation — also known as 20th Century Fox, or simply 20th or Fox — is one of the six major American film studios...
spinoffs, and HarperCollins
HarperCollins
HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company, itself the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company. The worldwide...
publishers.
See also: List of assets owned by News Corporation
David Callaway is Editor-in-Chief. Peter Brimelow
Peter Brimelow
Peter Brimelow is a British American financial journalist, author, and founder of VDARE. Brimelow has been the editor of many publications, including Forbes, the Financial Post, and National Review...
is a contributor, amongst 16 columnists who supplement the news reporting.