''Barron's'' is an American weekly

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Dow Jones & Company Dow Jones & Company, Inc. is an American publishing firm owned by News Corp and led by CEO Almar Latour. The company publishes ''The Wall Street Journal'', '' Barron's'', ''MarketWatch'', ''Mansion Global'', ''Financial News'' and ''Private ...

, a division of News Corp. Founded in 1921 by Clarence W. Barron (1855–1928) as a sister publication to ''

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'', ''Barron's'' covers U.S. financial information, market developments, and relevant statistics. Each issue provides a summary of the previous week's market activity as well as news, reports, and an outlook on the week to come.

Features

Features in the publication include: * ''Market Week'' – coverage of the previous week's market activity * ''Barron's Roundtable'' – Posts from noted investors such as Bill Gross,

Mario Gabelli Mario Joseph Gabelli (born June 19, 1942) is an American stock investor, investment advisor, and financial analyst. He is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Gabelli Asset Management Company Investors (Gamco Investors), an investment firm headqua ...

Abby Joseph Cohen Abby Joseph Cohen (born February 29, 1952) is an American economist and financial analyst on Wall Street. , she continues to serve as an advisory director at Goldman Sachs, after retiring from leadership of its Global Markets Institute. Prior to ...

Felix Zulauf Felix Zulauf (www.felixzulauf.com) (born 1950), is the owner and president of Zulauf Asset Management, a Zug, Switzerland-based hedge fund, which he founded in 1990 and now runs as his private family office. Zulauf Asset Management had $1.7 billio ...

, and Marc Faber * ''Best Online Brokers'' – A ranking of the top online trading brokerage firms. Criteria include trading experience and technology, usability, mobile, range of offerings, research amenities, portfolio analysis & report, customer service & education, and costs. * ''Top Financial Advisors'' – America's top financial advisors.

History

The magazine has been published by

since 1921. The magazine is named after Clarence W. Barron, an influential figure to Dow Jones and a founder of modern financial

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. Dow Jones also publishes ''

''. In 1990, color was introduced to the magazine and full color in January 1996. ''Barron's'' introduced a two-section version of the paper on March 7, 1994. Barron's ad 1975

Barrons.com was launched in 1996 as part of WSJ.com. In 2005, following "its first redesign in nearly 11 years" ''Barron's'' relaunched as a standalone product, months after their first Financial Advisor conference. In September 2008, ''Barron's'' acquired the Winner's Circle Organization. In September 2009, ''Barron's'' launched Penta as a new section. The section targets "pentamillionaires", individuals with at least $5 million in assets, with financial advice.

Employees

Famous former and current editors, publishers, and journalists of the magazine include: *

Robert Bleiberg Robert M. Bleiberg (June 21, 1924 – November 3, 1997) was an American editor, publisher and writer. He was the long-time editor, publisher and editorial director of ''Barron's''. Biography Bleiberg was born in Brooklyn in 1924 and graduated ...

, publisher (1982–1989), editor (1954-1981) *

Alan Abelson Alan Abelson (October 12, 1925 – May 9, 2013) was a veteran financial journalist, and longtime writer of the influential ''Up and Down Wall Street'' column in ''Barron's Magazine''. Career He was editor of Barron's from 1981 until 1992.

, columnist * Clarence W. Barron, "father of financial journalism" and founder of the newspaper

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