The CAP Watch e-mail notice directly links to a custom summary list of transactions covering selected companies. Subscribers can then drill down for further coverage, accessing complete information by clicking on each company name to link to the full transaction story. The focus, authority and speed of delivery that CAP Watch offers is unparalleled. To ensure that subscribers always receive only the information they need, customers can easily change the companies they have selected to monitor. Within the CAP Watch Internet site, subscribers set up and maintain their company list as well as specify their e-mail notification user preferences.
Subscribers input and maintain the list of companies to watch via a simple file download process.
The new customized service is part of CCH's comprehensive Capital Changes product line, which includes a range of services available via print, the Internet, Lotus Notes and direct data feed. Subscribers to CAP Watch who also subscribe to CCH Capital Changes Daily on the Internet can link directly to that comprehensive service. The Capital Changes product line provides the facts and figures to compute a security holder's gain or loss from capital changes. It covers federal tax consequences resulting from stock dividends, stock splits, reorganizations, exchanges, rights and other changes in capital structure in a database that spans over 100 years and 58,000 companies. CAP Watch is offered as a stand-alone service, or is available at a small additional cost for subscribers to CCH Capital Changes Daily on the Internet.