NEW YORK, November 13, 2009 – Dow Jones & Company, a News
Corporation company (NASDAQ: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV;
www.newscorp.com), has signed an
agreement to provide OANDA customers with Dow Jones’s streaming currency
news and information in six languages including English, Arabic, Chinese,
German, Japanese and Russian. OANDA (www.oanda.com)
is the trusted source for forex traders who need access to foreign exchange
data and services.
“We are pleased to offer our customers the ability to tap into the power of
Dow Jones’s foreign exchange market coverage. The integration of Dow Jones
news with OANDA will provide our clients with the information they need to
make sound decisions in this fast-moving market,” said Dean Popplewell,
currency analyst, OANDA.
“Dow Jones is committed to bringing users the targeted local-language news
that moves currencies in a format that can be quickly digested by individual
traders trying to stay ahead of the market,” said Richard Hanks, senior vice
president and chief commercial officer, Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group.
“The in-depth pre- and post-economic indicator analysis and forecasts
available via Dow Jones commentary and forex columns offers traders an
unmatched advantage.”
More than 438,000 financial professionals in 66 countries turn to Dow Jones
for breaking news, commentary and analysis, including market-moving
corporate, economic, market, financial and political news. Reporting from
nearly 90 bureaus across the globe, Dow Jones publishes up to 18,000 news
items each day, in 11 languages, covering all asset classes. Dow Jones
products help customers build relationships, create market opportunities and
enhance trust in their services.
For more information about Dow Jones, visit
www.dowjones.com.
ABOUT DOW JONES
Dow Jones & Company (www.dowjones.com)
is a News Corporation company (NASDAQ: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV;
www.newscorp.com). Dow Jones is a
leading provider of global business news and information services. Its
Consumer Media Group publishes The Wall Street Journal, Barron's,
MarketWatch and the Far Eastern Economic Review. Its Enterprise Media Group
includes Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones Factiva, Dow Jones Client Solutions,
Dow Jones Indexes and Dow Jones Financial Information Services. Its Local
Media Group operates community-based information franchises. Dow Jones owns
50% of SmartMoney and 33% of STOXX Ltd. and provides news content to radio
stations in the U.S.
ABOUT OANDA
OANDA started in 1995 as the first online provider of comprehensive currency
exchange information. Since then the "OANDA Rate"® has become the touchstone
for corporations, tax authorities, auditing firms and even central banks. In
2001 OANDA launched FXTrade, the first fully automated online forex trading
platform. FXTrade was the first platform to offer immediate execution,
support trades and accounts of any size, enable true 24/7 trading, and
eliminate the rollover swap by calculating interest by the second. OANDA’s
innovative technology has enabled it to sustain a large trading volume. Peak
performance has been measured at 1.5 million trades a day, far exceeding the
volume typically handled through any of the leading global banks or
electronic communication networks (ECNs) that trade forex. OANDA Corporation
is a registered Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) with the Commodity Futures
Trading Commission (CFTC) in the United States and is a member of the
National Futures Association (NFA). OANDA Corporation owns the following
subsidiaries: OANDA Asia Pacific Pte Ltd, regulated by the Monetary
Authority of Singapore with a Capital Markets Services license; and OANDA
Middle East Corporation Ltd., with a license from the Dubai Financial
Services Authority (DFSA).
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