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Monday, December 09, 02:09 PM CST ADVISORY Business Editors, Business Section Paginators, AP's Money...Show fullCollapse
Monday, December 09, 02:09 PM CST

ADVISORY

Business Editors,

Business Section Paginators,

AP's Money & Markets will move to a new system aimed at sustaining the most popular modules used by customers. This change will happen in January. AP's focus will remain on delivering markets data and information of highest interest to your readers, including l Local Stocks and Mutual Funds, Daily Stocks Recaps, Interest Rates, Foreign Exchange rates and Commodities.

The new system will feature a self-service option that will allow for easy real-time customization of your local stocks lists, allowing for more flexibility around any changes that need to be made throughout the year.

Modules also will no longer be linked together but instead will be delivered as individual graphics for your use and mix as your news hole allows for each day. This is to give customers greater flexibility in how they use the product.

Some modules,including Centerpiece, Industry/Company Spotlight, Story Stocks, Week Ahead and Today, will no longer be available after Jan. 3.

These product changes are being made to enhance and modernize the product and are based on customer feedback and usage data. The modules that will remain available are the most popular so you will still be able to keep delivering the dara points that your readrs look for today under the new system.

More details to come, but if you have any immediate questions please contact Barry Bedlan at bbedlan@ap.org

AP Money & Markets

With AP Money & Markets Online readers know their newspaper Web site is the best source for the latest on the markets and their investments. It has a powerful package of interactive financial tools for stock and mutual fund prices and data. Markets, economy and company news is updated throughout the day.

Check out the following sites to see Money & Markets in action.

Featured Members Implementation Examples:

Seattle Times

Example of a “markets page” with top markets headlines, M&M Index Graphic, Market Barometer module, Stocks Lookup module, with links to Local Stocks and other M&M tools.

Indianapolis Star

Example of Money & Markets tools, business news, link to Watch List module, and Indiana Local Stocks Module.

Tallahassee Democrat

Example of a hosted page with all the basic elements of Money & Markets in a clean, well organized display. With one link, your site displays top market stories, key graphics and links to M&M tools.

Johnson City Press

In addition to the Today module, Johnson City also uses the Centerpiece, Market Index Graphic, Market Barometer as well as all of the investing and ranking tools.

Examples of M&M with advertising sponsors:

The American Press

Sponsor advertiser (Edward Jones).

The Greenville News

Example of a member with sponsored market content on their home page and expanded content (quotes, investor tools, local stocks) on their business page.

Examples of strong local market modules:

Louisville Courier-Journal

Louisville promotes M&M with the Market Index Graph on its home page. It has good promotion of Money & Markets Watch List feature, and uses the Local Stocks module to build local area employer 401k lists.

Dayton Daily News

Dayton area companies are listed and profiled in capsule form.

The Journal News

Local list module in use and have all of the Investing tools that Money & Markets offers.

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