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Media Release

 

BSE GOES WIRELESS

The successful launch of BSEIndia.com was a major initiative from BSE towards enabling its cause of investor empowerment and achieving total transparency.

Investor Focus, the essence of the Mission 2000 statement, has been the core emphasis of BSEIndia.com. Since its launch on August 18th 2000, the site has grown tremendously popular with investors and market participants. It crossed the 1 mn page views milestone in under 3 months and it now averages approx.1.3 mn page views per day. The usefulness of this site to investors is borne by the fact that registered users of bseindia.com now number 10,000 and are increasing exponentially every month.

The revamped bse web-site has exhaustive investor meaningful features

  • Markets live section
portraying the pulse of the market
  • Corporate announcements
on line dissemination of results and corporate announcements
  • Stock reach
comprehensive information on stock
  • Charting tool
extensive technical analysis and multi index comparison
  • Personalisation
customisation of ticker, touchline and portfolio manager

In addition to this, BSEIndia.com gives extensive general information for investor education and awareness. The site is being continuously overhauled to perform better and more features are being added to cover the entire spectrum of Capital Markets.

BSE is committed to adapt technology to empower the investors and market participants even better. Realising the need of the investor on the move to access information, BSE has launched its “BSE WIRELESS” initiative. Now investors can access all the major features and information from the BSE website anytime, anywhere.

With wap.bseindia.com, BSE aims at covering the entire mobile populace, keeping them informed - on the move.

Wap.bseindia.com offers the following:-

  • Indices information
(covering all the 9 indices in detail)
  • Stock reach
Covering all the stock information like prices/volumes/touchline/announcements/general information
  • Toppers/losers
Will give a birds eye view of the entire market in terms of toppers/losers by price, advances, declines, toppers by volumes, turnover, scrips in circuit amongst others.

All these will again be available in detailed drill down group wise and index wise.
  • Announcements
The top 10 corporate announcements for the day will be available for the investors
  • Graphs
The investor can see the updated SENSEX graph at any point in time.
  • Sensex ticker
Will give a scroll of the BSE SENSEX scrips with prices.

The site also carries the entire intuitive navigational features available at www.bseindia.com so that surfing via the mobile phone is a pleasurable experience.

Launching soon is the SMS/Email alerts feature on BSEINDIA so that investors without cellular phones or without WAP phones can still be in touch with the market using the comprehensive alerts section.

Also on the anvil are other products including “Carry Forward” and “Derivatives” on the net followed by their WAP and SMS versions.

Dr. Manoj Vaish
Dy. Executive Director

19th December 2000

 

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