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About Marketwatch.ie

Independent.
Built in Ireland.
Built to last.

Marketwatch.ie publishes one composite, two briefings, and an honest amount of news every market day. We don't sell stock tips. We don't run advertorial. We don't pretend the Irish market is bigger than it is, or smaller than it could be. We are, mostly, two people in Dublin and Cork, with a deep bench of contributors and a longer than fashionable attention span.

I.Mission

We started Marketwatch.ie because Irish investors deserved a market publication that was built for their circumstances, in their currency, on their time zone, and with the specific list of names they actually own.

The American press writes for an American audience; the British press writes for the City. The aggregators are noisy, repetitive, and frequently inaccurate. The data terminals are too expensive for a private investor and too dense for a casual reader. We thought the gap was worth filling, and we wrote a publication to fill it.

If we do our jobs well, you should be able to read everything we publish in under five minutes a day and walk away with a more accurate mental model of where the world's markets stand than you would from any other free source available to you.

There are perhaps fifty pieces of news a day that genuinely matter to a in euro investor. There are forty-five thousand published. The product, to us, is the filter.Founding note

II.The eight philosophy

Why eight? Because we counted, and seven was too few, and nine added nothing.

01

Constraint produces clarity

An indicator with eight components is one a person can hold in their head. An indicator with eighty is, at best, a backtest. We chose constraint.

02

Equal weights are honest

Optimised weights are a conceit; they fit the past at the expense of the future. Equal weights say what they are: an admission that we don't know which market will matter most next week.

03

The MW8 is descriptive, not predictive

We tell you what mood the market is in. We do not pretend to tell you what it will do next. That distinction is, in our view, the entire ethical core of the publication.

04

Eight pages, eight sections

The site is built around the same number. It is not a coincidence; it is the constraint that forces us to keep the site as readable as the briefing.

III.Editorial standards

The rules we hold ourselves to. We expect to be told when we miss them.

Accuracy
We correct mistakes. If we publish a number that is wrong, we change it, mark the change visibly, and explain what the correct number is. We do not quietly edit. The MW8 reading is auditable to its inputs at every point in the past.
Transparency
Every methodology decision we make is published in writing on the relevant page. The MW8's formula is on its page. The sectors are listed on theirs. There are no proprietary internals we won't show you.
Independence
We take no money from issuers, brokers, or platforms in exchange for editorial coverage. We do run advertising. It's clearly marked, and never embedded in editorial copy. We will say so when we hold a position in a stock we cover; usually, the answer is that we don't.
Plain English
If a sentence in our publication needs a glossary to be understood, we have failed to write it. We will use technical terms where they are precise; we will not use them where simpler ones would do.
Not investment advice
Nothing on this site is intended as investment advice. We do not know your circumstances, your tax position, your risk tolerance, or your time horizon. We are publishers, not advisers. Where you need advice, we'll point you to a qualified professional.
Privacy
We collect the minimum data we need to run the publication. We don't sell email lists. We don't track readers across the internet. We use one analytics provider, configured to anonymise IP addresses, and that is the entire stack.

IV.The team

Small, deliberate, and named. The people writing the publication you're reading.

Editor & co-founder
[Editor name]
Twenty-two years on a sell side floor in London and New York; latterly a portfolio manager in Dublin. Writes the morning briefing.
Markets desk & co-founder
[Markets editor name]
Former trading desk strategist; built the MW8 methodology and writes the Europe close briefing. Based in Cork, and proud of it.
Contributing editors
[Eight named contributors]
Working analysts, fund managers, and journalists who write under their own bylines on topics within their specific competence, never outside it.

V.Contact

Reachable, by humans, on every meaningful channel.

News tips
tips@marketwatch.ie · encrypted on request
Corrections
corrections@marketwatch.ie · we read every one
Advertising
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Postal
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We answer every email a human sends us, usually within twenty-four hours and almost always within forty-eight. We don't use chatbots, autoresponders, or ticketing systems. If you write to us, you'll hear back from a person.

If you've found a mistake, please send it to the corrections address. We treat the correction queue as the most important inbox on the site, and we read it before we read anything else.

A correction received before lunch will be visible on the site by afternoon tea.

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