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added 2007 Sun Jun 3 3:58:11 by Deidre
Journalists at The Wall Street Journal, the US financial newspaper being stalked by Rupert Murdoch, may stage a walk-out if he buys the title's parent company Dow Jones, according to sources close to the publication.
added 2007 Wed May 9 18:21:00 by KelLuv
HONG KONG (Reuters) - The family at the center of an insider trading case involving shares of publisher Dow Jones & Co. Inc. was rich, but not famous -- until this week.
added 2007 Tue May 8 0:55:25 by JamesMarcus
Federal and state authorities are investigating suspicious options trading in Dow Jones & Co. stock prior to an announcement last week of News Corp.'s $5 billion bid for the financial news publisher. News last Tuesday of the $60-per-share bid by Rupert Murdoch's company sent Dow Jones shares soaring.
added 2007 Tue May 1 18:40:58 by Aidenag
Shares of Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, soared almost 60 percent on Tuesday after the financial news network CNBC reported that Rupert Murdoch's media company News Corp. offered to buy the company for $60 a share.
added 2007 Wed Apr 25 23:07:10 by TechnologyExpert
The stock market's best-known indicator surged past its latest milestone shortly after trading began Wednesday, and even made it past 13,100, rising as high as 13,107.45. According to preliminary calculations, it closed at 13,087.46 up 133.52 or 1.03 percent.
added 2007 Wed Mar 14 14:45:44 by Fabienne
From the article: "European stocks have joined a global sell-off, after concerns about the US economy and mortgage industry hurt markets in Asia and dented Wall Street. The UK's FTSE tumbled 103.4 points, or 1.7%, to 6,057.8. Earlier, Japan's Nikkei index closed 2.9% lower and New York's Dow Jones index ended down 2%."
added 2007 Thu Mar 1 19:54:31 by Aidenag
Dow Jones faced a flurry of lawsuits last night after the business information provider admitted that a computer glitch had misled investors about the value of its benchmark stock index and potentially exacerbated some institutions' losses by millions of dollars.
added 2007 Wed Feb 28 0:52:56 by corey.spring
When the Dow Jones industrial average plunged to its low of the session Tuesday, it happened with incredible swiftness -- a matter of seconds -- because of a computer glitch that kept some trades from being immediately reflected in the index of 30 blue chip stocks.
added 2007 Wed Jan 24 18:46:52 by bhartzer
Dow Jones & Co awarded its chief executive a bonus of nearly $900,000 in shares, and awarded the publisher of The Wall Street Journal a bonus of nearly $500,000 in shares, the company disclosed.