Information professionals can see the future after business information service provider Dow Jones launched a feed of calendar and real-time event data, aimed at financial professionals and private investors.

Users can customise the Dow Jones Calendar Live feed, which is designed to plug integrated calendar and real-time data into websites, portals and financial information platforms.

The XML-based service combines content produced by the Dow Jones editorial team and event information from AMI.

The Calendar Live feed is pure data, and events are updated in real-time – in other words, as they happen. Dow Jones has no plans to make it XBRL-based.

Simon Rodda, director of international product management for Dow Jones, said: “XBRL is not seen as appropriate for the non-financial components of the product, such as dates and venues for governmental meetings, etc.”

The service is intended to be of interest globally.

“Macro-economic data is global,” said Rodda. “Corporate event data is also global, with the focus on main index constituents in Americas and Asia-Pacific and more depth in EMEA.”

The feed includes calendar items from more than 30,000 organisations, covering 8,000 companies worldwide in detail, with information about forthcoming corporate announcements and events.

It notifies users about the release of economic indicators, central bank meetings and other events of importance to financial professionals and private investors.

It also provides macro-economic forecasts as well as real-time updates on events such as corporate earnings and economic data.