Press Release
Contact:
David Beasley
650-347-2220 x.132
dbeasley@briefing.com
Account Holders Benefit From Leading Edge Commentary
Burlingame, CA, June 9, 1998…Briefing.com, the only
Internet-based provider of live analysis by top Wall Street
experts now adds more value for users of Charles Schwab
(www.schwab.com). For over a year Schwab has provided account
holders free access to Briefing's premium Stock Analysis™
service, a significant benefit for users of the nation's largest
provider of online brokerage services. Now, Schwab
provides increased benefit to all users of Schwab.com by
providing hourly market updates by Briefing.com on Schwab's home
page. In fact, Briefing currently provides content to four areas
of Schwab's site: the hourly Market Summary on Schwab's home
page; extensive analysis in Schwab's new Analyst Center; the
free access to Briefing's complete Stock Analysis service; and
economic news & market commentary on Schwab's free Market Buzz™
service. Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. is one of the
nation's largest financial services companies, with branch
offices throughout the U.S. and the largest provider of online
brokerage services. The Schwab online investing experience
caters to a client base of 1.5 million active online accounts
with over $112 billion in online customer assets. Through
a licensing arrangement which began early last year, Schwab
account holders are provided complete, free access to Briefing's
"live" Stock Analysis service, with constant updates throughout
the day. Now, prominently featured on Schwab's home page,
Briefing's Market Summary is a concise overview of market
developments, updated every hour on the hour. From the home
page, Schwab account holders seeking investment advice may also
link to the Market Report section in the Analyst Center, which
defaults to market analysis provided by Briefing's top Wall
Street analysts. Visitors without a Schwab account can
access the free service Market Buzz, where Briefing provides the
following three types of information: Economic News, an
abridged, intra-daily version of Briefing's Stock Ticker,
Company News - news about public companies taken from Briefing's
Story Stocks, and Analysis and Opinion, where visitors click
through to excerpts from Briefing's Sector Ratings page.
Art Shaw, SVP of Electronic Brokerage Development at Charles
Schwab & Co., comments, "Briefing's expert analysis and
commentary is a great fit with Schwab's product -- a
comprehensive package of key news and information investors need
to make informed investment decisions." David Beasley,
vice-president of marketing at Briefing.com adds,
"Briefing.com's growing relationship with Charles Schwab
reflects our closely aligned goals of providing the highest
quality, intra-day information to the online investment
community." Briefing content on Schwab.com is drawn from
Briefing's two online services: Briefing.com Stock Analysis, a
comprehensive equities service for individual investors; and
Briefing.com Professional, a package geared towards fixed-income
professionals such as bond traders, funds managers, corporate
treasurers and mortgage brokers. Briefing.com Professional
includes live bond market commentary, 15 minute-delayed bond and
FX quotes, leading edge Economic Analysis and much more. Stock
Analysis includes a live market analysis section as well as the
extremely popular Upgrades/Downgrades and Splits Calendars. A
subscription to Briefing.com Professional includes the Stock
Analysis service. # # #
About Briefing.com
Briefing.com is an employee-owned company headquartered in
Chicago, with offices in Boston and the San Francisco Bay Area.
Rated a “top site” eight consecutive years by Barron’s and three
consecutive years by Forbes.com, Briefing.com is the leading
provider of quality, live market analysis via the Internet. Briefing is of similar design and
content to the live information products currently used by Wall
Street traders over traditional networks. These services,
delivered over such vendors as Reuters, Bloomberg, and Bridge
Telerate, commonly cost between $200-$330 per month.
Briefing.com has two subscription Internet services.
Briefing.com Stock Analysis is $6.95 per month. Briefing.com
Professional is $25 per month. A no-obligation, free trial
period is available for both products. About Schwab
The Charles Schwab Corporation is one of the fastest growing
financial services companies and the leading provider of on-line
brokerage services through the Internet and proprietary
software. Schwab serves 5.2 million total active investor
accounts with over $414 billion in total client assets. Schwab
provides service to individuals, investment managers and
institutions. Member SIPC/NYSE. SOURCE Charles Schwab & Co. Inc.
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