Dow Jones News/Retrieval

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Dow Jones News/Retrieval was an early online service offered by Dow Jones & Company beginning in the 1980s. It focused on financial information offering access to securities prices including quotes on stocks, bonds, options and mutual funds as well as a news data base with items culled from The Wall Street Journal, Barron's and other sources.[1]

Additionally, it provided access to articles from The New York Times[2], Westlaw[3], movie reviews and other non-financial services.

Fees for using the service were relatively expensive. It cost $30 to subscribe followed by a $12 annual membership fee. Additionally, prime-rime usage charges were $2.30 per minute[4] and after-hours access was 44 cents a minute for basic services and general information, and $1.76 a minute for detailed reports such as S.E.C. filings. "Blue Chip" and "Executive" discount plans were available for users who spent a lot of time on the service.[5]

The service was renamed Dow Jones Interactive in the late 1990s, and later merged into Factiva.

[edit] References

  1. ^ INVESTING; USING COMPUTERS TO PLAY THE MARKET
  2. ^ Times News Service on Line
  3. ^ Dow Jones and West to Link Data Services
  4. ^ INVESTING; USING COMPUTERS TO PLAY THE MARKET
  5. ^ THE EXECUTIVE COMPUTER; Headlines and Stock Quotes on Call
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