Benzinga, the largest financial news vendor to North American brokerages, today announced the launch of its shipping news category powered by FreightWaves, the number one source for freight and shipping news, market data and insight.
The addition of the new freight category to Benzinga offers traders and market watchers a specialized portal for all articles on transportation, trade and logistics news and analysis that appear on Benzinga.com. Alongside original content and analysis from Benzinga, visitors to the shipping channel can also look forward to original FreightWaves content exclusive to Benzinga.
“Our goal at Benzinga is to make information easier to consume. This partnership with FreightWaves will extend that mission to an exciting new vertical,” said Benzinga’s Executive Vice President of Revenue, Luke Jacobi.
“FreightWaves is committed to building a world-class community in freight that uses news, data and technology to understand and de-risk the market. We’re excited to share our content with a new audience through our partnership with Benzinga,” stated Craig Fuller, Founder and CEO of FreightWaves.
About FreightWaves
FreightWaves is the leading go to source for news, information, market indices, geo heat-maps, and barometers that analyze and map the freight market. FreightWaves partners with some of the largest and most important data providers in the freight marketplace, aggregating over 150 sources and representing billions of individual data points to model and interpret near-time changes and impacts to the freight market.
About Benzinga
Benzinga is a leading originator of actionable financial insights for traders and investors. Benzinga’s news desk is constantly breaking stories and moving billions of dollars of market capitalization through its real-time terminal, Benzinga Pro. Benzinga’s original content is syndicated to 70 partner websites, such as Yahoo! Finance MSN, CNNMoney, Fox Business, Marketwatch, and more. Benzinga is the leading provider of news to the North American brokerage community, with a client list including TD Ameritrade (AMTD), LightSpeed, TradeKing, and many more. The company is headquartered in downtown Detroit and dedicated to driving Detroit’s renaissance.
