Magazine Name: |
Barron's |
Alternative Names: |
Barron's Magazine |
Owner: |
News Corp |
Publisher: |
Dow Jones & Company |
Country / Region: |
USA (New York) |
Language: |
English |
Format type: |
Magazine |
Category: |
Business, finance, money |
Political alignment: |
None |
Frequency: |
Weekly |
Publication Years (print version): |
1921 — now (102 years) |
Publication Years (digital version): |
1996 — now (27 years) |
ISSN: |
1077-8039 |
Circulation: |
305,000 (2015) |
Official Pages: |
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Official Apps: |
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Website: |
www.barrons.com [read with translation] |
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«Barron'»s is a weekly influential American financial magazine published by one of the divisions of Dow Jones & Company since 1921. It was founded by Clarence W. Barron, then owner of the Dow Jones and Company (he acquired it in 1903), who later became the company's most influential figure and in fact the founder of modern financial capitalist journalism (at least in America). Dow Jones & Company was already publishing its own newspaper, «
The Wall Street Journal», a business and financial daily, but Clarence wanted to create his own publication. After a short period of discussion and experimentation, it was decided to publish a weekly magazine with various financial analysis and summary reports based on the materials of the aforementioned newspaper. The magazine was named after Clarence, «Barron's National Financial Weekly», later the name was shortened to «Barron's Magazine». Among readers, it is known simply as «Barrons». The magazine was sold at a price of 30 cents, and was incredibly popular with investors. In 1926, its circulation was 30 thousand copies.
«Barron's» magazine summarizes the results of the US financial week, provides detailed reviews of markets and the investment sector, offers readers various analytics and statistics, and makes ratings. The magazine spent most of its history in black-and-white, only in the 1990s it began to appear in color illustrations (mainly advertising content), it became full-color in 1996. The main and permanent sections of the magazine, which are its hallmark: Market Week (a detailed overview of market activity over the past week), Barron's Roundtable (columns from well-known American investors, managers, financiers, bankers: Bill Gross, Marc Faber, Mario Gabelli), Best Online Brokers (ratings of brokerage companies compiled by various criteria), Top Financial Advisors (ratings of financial advisors), Barron's Advisor (tips and recommendations from the magazine), Up and Down Wall Street (Wall Street news), Funds (stock market), Investing, Biotech (biotechnology), Oil, Economy and Policy (economics and law), Penta (section for large businessmen, pentamillionaires who have at least $5 million of capital at their disposal). The magazine is known for its recommendations like: «Where to invest a million dollars», «What to invest 500 thousand», «How best to spend 10,000». The price of one issue is $5.