The Wall Street Journal is a daily business and financial news publication founded by Charles Dow, Edward Jones, and Charles Bergstresser that covers markets, regulation, and international affairs. The Wall Street Journal's Twitter Score is 292 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #1,166 (top 0.5%) among 531,432 tracked accounts.
The Wall Street Journal is published by Dow Jones & Company, which operates as part of News Corp. The publication has grown its digital subscriber base substantially, reporting 4.33 million digital-only subscriptions in the fiscal third quarter ending March 31, 2026. The Wall Street Journal has been a continuous presence in business journalism since July 8, 1889, and its reporting spans equities, fixed income, corporate strategy, and increasingly, digital assets and cryptocurrency policy.
The Wall Street Journal maintains consistent coverage of cryptocurrency markets and digital-asset regulation, including SEC enforcement actions, crypto ETFs, stablecoin accounting standards, and bitcoin treasury strategies. In June 2026, the Journal reported that Strategy authorized plans to buy back as much as $1 billion each of preferred and Class A common shares and launched a $1.25 billion monetization program involving bitcoin sales. Also in June 2026, the Journal reported that analysts warned as many as one-third of crypto ETFs could shut within two years, with demand concentrated in low-cost bitcoin and Ethereum products from major issuers such as BlackRock and Fidelity Investments.
The Wall Street Journal has also reported on evolving accounting standards for digital assets, noting in December 2025 that the Financial Accounting Standards Board planned to explore in 2026 whether some cryptocurrency assets may qualify as cash equivalents and how to account for crypto transfers including wrapped tokens. In July 2025, the Journal reported that blank-check company Dynamix was merging with another entity to create the Ether Machine, a company planning to manage over $1.5 billion in ether. The Wall Street Journal publishes across 504,345 posts and has been mentioned by 5,497 accounts a total of 115,146 times.
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