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09:25 January 22nd, 2007

Call it the Whole Street Journal

Posted by: Robert MacMillan
Tags: Uncategorized

The readers have spoken: Change is good, unless it’s bad.

Dow Jones & Co., with generous helpings of fanfare, started publishing a narrower, redesigned Wall Street Journal this month. And like most U.S. newspapers trying to please an increasingly finicky and fickle audience, it repeatedly asked us for our feedback.

Feedback from “several thousand” or less than a half of 1 percent of subscribers and newsstand buyers hit home. Despite the gradual disappearance of much stocks and funds data from the print editions of newspapers across the U.S., the Journal decided to restore some features that it determined readers wouldn’t do without.

Here they are for those readers who have shunned the Internet, where, in some cases, more robust versions of the charts are also available. An abridged version below:

 Each Monday, the Closed-End Funds feature will appear. Daily closed-end funds, are available free on WSJ.com.
 
 A 52-week high or low stocks table returns to the Journal …. During the trading day, the chart is continuously updated on WSJ.com.
 
 A Cash Prices table of commodities, which many of our subscribers are using to price financial contracts, returns this week. Also available on WSJ.com with additional data.
 
 Lipper Indexes of mutual-fund categories, formerly found on the Markets Lineup page, also will return to the print paper, accompanying the Mutual Funds package Tuesdays through Saturdays … Quotes and performance data on more than 10,000 funds and ETFs are available free on WSJ.com, as well as fund and ETF screeners and scorecards of the best and worst funds in 100 categories.

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