It is an excellent resource for anyone who needs to extend industry research beyond recent news. The service has less penetrating coverage of companies, mutual funds, markets, and the economy. Company information is a little sparse, and includes a brief profile, a stock chart, earnings estimates, and recent news stories. The Funds area offers the day s price quote and a recent price history chart. Markets has a brief summary of the day s action and news stories.
Economy has economic news and a set of Web links to economic data sites.
The complete set of news stories and the entire collection of Web sites are both keyword-searchable. The searchable news archive goes back about 2 months, and, even though it is a free site, a somewhat longer archive would be welcome. There is also an option to search the DJI Publications Library, a massive collection of full-text business sources. These include primers and interactive calculators on investments, taxes, retirement, insurance, etc. It doesn t cover industries or the economy per se, but only as they relate to investment decisions and planning.