''Investor's Business Daily'' (''IBD'') is an American newspaper and website covering the

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and

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. Founded in 1984 by William O'Neil as a print news publication, it is owned by

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and is headquartered in

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. Holding a

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political stance, ''IBD'' provides news and analysis on

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s, commodities, and other financial instruments aimed at individual investors and financial professionals. It also provides tools for

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. The publication focuses on the

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developed by founder William O'Neil. Every Monday in its weekly edition, the publication publishes the components of ''The IBD 50 Index'', a list of 50 growth stocks that are most attractive based on earnings, stock price performance, and other criteria used in the

strategy. It is the basis for an

(ETF) called the Innovator IBD 50 ETF (Ticker: FFTY), which is also rebalanced weekly. ''IBD Live '' includes a stock market discussion by professional stock traders via

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History

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and

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William O'Neil founded the newspaper in 1984 due to frustration with the lack of data about stocks in newspapers. In September 1991, the publication's name was changed from ''Investor's Daily'' to ''Investor's Business Daily''. In 1994, ten years after its founding, ''IBD'' was ranked among the fastest-growing newspapers in the country. In 2001, after the

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, revenue fell 20%-30%. At that time, paid circulation was approximately 313,000. In 2005, political cartoonist

Michael Ramirez Michael Patrick Ramirez (born May 11, 1961) is an American cartoonist for the '' Las Vegas Review-Journal''. His cartoons present mostly conservative viewpoints. He is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. Early life and education Ramirez was born ...

joined ''IBD''. In 2008, Ramirez won his second

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for editorial cartooning while at the company. In March 2016, the print newspaper became a weekly publication and the publication shifted its focus to daily digital operations, cutting 20 jobs. At that time, the website had 4 million visitors. During the

2016 United States presidential election The 2016 United States presidential election was the 58th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016. The Republican ticket of businessman Donald Trump and Indiana governor Mike Pence defeated the Democratic ticket ...

, ''IBD'' conducted one of two polls that correctly predicted a victory by

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. Before the election, the poll had been dismissed as being an "outlying survey," but it was rated as one of the closest to the final result. In March 2019, the publication ended its opinion section. In May 2021,

acquired the publication for $275 million, adding it to its

Dow Jones & Company Dow Jones & Company, Inc. is an American publishing firm owned by News Corp and led by CEO Almar Latour. The company publishes ''The Wall Street Journal'', ''Barron's'', ''MarketWatch'', ''Mansion Global'', ''Financial News'' and ''Private Equ ...

division. At that time it had 100,000 digital subscribers.

IBD/TIPP polls

TechnoMetrica Institute of Policy and Politics (TIPP), the polling arm of TechnoMetrica Market Intelligence, is IBD's exclusive polling partner delivering poll data via the IBD/TIPP collaboration between Investor's Business Daily and TechnoMetrica Institute of Policy and Politics. TIPP polls have mixed reviews, some claiming that it is most accurate and some claiming that it has a right wing bias.

Controversies

Lawsuit claiming inadequate wages to telemarketers

In March 2002,

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s who were compensated on the basis of a point system which rewarded them for selling longer subscriptions, winning daily contests, and meeting weekly sales goals sued the company for violations of the

Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) is a United States labor law that creates the right to a minimum wage, and "time-and-a-half" overtime pay when people work over forty hours a week. It also prohibits employment of minors in "oppres ...

July 2009 error in editorial

In July 2009, an editorial in the publication claimed that physicist '' Stephen Hawking "wouldn't have a chance in the U.K., where the ritish

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(NHS) would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless."'' Hawking was British, lived in the

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nearly all of his life, and received his medical care from the NHS. ''IBD'' later removed the editorial's reference to Hawking in its online version and appended an "Editor's Note" which said, ''"This version corrects the original editorial which implied that physicist Stephen Hawking, a professor at the

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, did not live in the UK."'' Hawking himself responded, ''"I wouldn't be here today if it were not for the NHS. I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived."''

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