MarketWatch is a website that provides financial information, business news, analysis, and stock market data.

It is a subsidiary of Dow Jones & Company, a property of News Corp, along with The Wall Street Journal and Barron's.

[3] The website launched on October 30, 1997, as a 50/50 joint venture between DBC and CBS News, then run by Larry Kramer[2] and co-founder and chairman, Derek Reisfield.

[2] In June 2000, the company formed a joint venture with the Financial Times[7] with Peter Bale as managing editor.

[10] In October 2020, MarketWatch announced that it would become a paywalled subscription-based publication, in order to "raise the ambitions of our journalism".