A New TSC and a New Way to Cover the Markets

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Along with its newly all-free content and its new look, TheStreet.com has revamped its comprehensive, timely, close-to-Wall-Street-as-old-gum coverage of the financial markets. You'll still find the same kind of thorough and sharply written information, but some of the story names and structures are new (and improved!).

The Market Story

The biggest change is the introduction of a new flagship story we call, simply, The Market Story. The Market Story replaces several of the separate markets pieces we used to run, such as the Wake-Up Call, Midday Musings and the Market Roundup. You'll still get all the fresh updates you've come to expect, starting with the first version of The Market Story around 8 a.m. Eastern Time, setting the stage for the start of U.S. stock trading at 9:30.

Stocks to Watch

To keep up at a glance with stocks in the day's news, check out Stocks to Watch. Like The Market Story, it's updated before the open and hourly throughout the day. It culminates in a Winners & Losers recap after the close, replacing the former Company Report. The recap includes our Winners & Losers tables of leading gainers and decliners, which had been published separately.

A little later after the close, the renamed Evening Update, now also called Stocks to Watch, highlights stocks making postclose news that you should be watching in the next trading session.

On the Level

That's what we always try to be here at TheStreet.com, and this daily story is a big part of how we do it. Written Monday through Thursday by chief markets writer Brett D. Fromson, On the Level examines the main theme of the trading day or tugs on an overlooked market thread, providing analysis and insights to help you better understand the ways of Wall Street.

Preopen Trading

Formerly called Off-Hours Trading, Preopen Trading gives you an early-morning look at some of the indicators that can help you get a grip on how the U.S. market will open. The first version, published around 7 a.m. ET, checks out how U.S. stocks are doing in London trading. An updated version around 8 a.m. focuses on how the Nasdaq 100 and S&P 500 futures are doing against fair value . It also provides Instinet and/or Island quotes on individual stocks and mentions overseas index action. The piece includes the previous evening's Night Watch after-hours trading coverage.

Pulse of the New Economy

The artist formerly known as Nothing but Net (a.k.a. David Shabelman) continues to bird-dog the trading in hot tech stocks from his San Francisco perch. His thrice-daily update sports a new name: Pulse of the New Economy. The piece still focuses largely on Internet stocks but has broadened its purview to cover all kinds of technology stocks that are important to so many portfolios.

Other Market News

TSC has plenty of other markets stories to help guide you through the trading day and put your investing outlook in perspective. In rough chronological order (times Eastern):

• The Asian Markets Update, published around 5:30 a.m., reports on the often-volatile trading in Japan, Hong Kong and elsewhere in the Asia-Pacific region.

• On Tap Today, published at 6 a.m., gives you an at-a-glance look at some of the notable goings-on to keep in mind for the day ahead, including S&P 500 earnings reports, economic data releases, IPO lockup and quiet-period expirations, conference schedules and more. On days with two or more earnings releases, lockup expirations or quiet-period expirations, those sections are also published separately. In earnings season, watch for extensive coverage, both in Market News and across the site.

• The European Midday Update hits the site around 6:30 a.m. and delves into the midsession action in London, Frankfurt, Paris and elsewhere on the Continent. Around the middle of the U.S. trading session, the European Closing Update wraps up the European trading day.

• TSC's incisive coverage of the world's Currencies, by currency veteran John Hardy, first appears in the site's Market News, International and Market Briefing sections around 9 a.m. It is updated in Market Briefing around noon and around 4 p.m.

• Options Buzz takes you inside the often arcane but always important world of stock options trading. By showing what's happening in options today, we point to where equities are headed tomorrow. Appearing weekday afternoons around 1:30 p.m., this story keeps you on top of all of the options action, which very often presages news or moves in the underlying stocks themselves.

• Bond Focus, a daily story on the fixed-income markets and the economy, appears every weekday afternoon by about 5 p.m. On days when important economic data are released, watch the site in the morning for special updates. Check out The Market Story for brief flashes on how bonds are trading through the session. And for more economic information, see our Economic Databank, updated weekly, and the Fed Scorecard (you can find both under Don't Miss on our Market News page, at the upper right).

• TSC was among the pioneers in covering the badlands of the after-hours equity markets, and we continue that tradition in The Night Watch. Appearing every weekday evening around 6:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., the story digs into the movements of big-cap behemoths and microcap gnats alike to help you make sense of the action on Instinet, Island and elsewhere.

• Every Sunday, The Coming Week sets you up for, yes, the coming week. We look at upcoming economic releases, major earnings reports and other foreseeable factors that could move the markets, and we do it through an analytical lens that puts it all in context.

• Under the Market Features story type, we write an array of stories every day that delve into market trends, preview market-moving events and provide valuable ideas for investors of all stripes to mull over and act on. You'll find our market features on the home page when they're first published, and you can see about a week's worth of features in a column on the left side of our Market News page.

Market Briefing

If you like our Market Briefing section, formerly called the Briefing Room, you can still find a link to it in the vertical navigation bar on the left side of every page. But you'll find most of the news and analysis content in Market Briefing (except our thrice-daily currency updates) in The Market Story, which will usually appear either in the top-story spot on the home page or just below, under the Markets heading. The Stocks in the News content in Market Briefing appears in Stocks to Watch.

Feedback

We're eager to hear what you think about the changes we've made, and about our market news coverage overall. Feel free to write to me at [e-mail] or Markets Editor Pat Fitzgibbons at [e-mail] anytime. And you can visit our editorial masthead to familiarize yourself with our markets team and the rest of the talented journalists who bring you TheStreet.com Network.

Happy reading!

John J. Edwards III
Assistant Managing Editor