We are introducing a new Web-site feature — a News section — where you can access headlines and article summaries for global markets and asset classes.

You will notice this new section in the left-hand menu column (under the heading “News”). Clicking that link will take you to the default news page (“International Markets”), which provides headlines and summaries of stories about global asset classes.

In addition to International Markets, the other news sections we offer — all of them new, being rolled out today — are:

• U.S. Markets & Economy
• U.S. Earnings
• Global Commodities
• Global Currencies

(You can access these sections by clicking on the little spinner beside the main “News” link.)

Each of these pages refreshes automatically every five minutes. Clicking on a headline takes you to the full story (well, we can’t promise you’ll get the full story). Soon, we plan to expand the number of topics we aggregate to include country- and sector-specific pages.

All of this is yours for free — we ask only that you tell no one it was our cousin who escorted us to the prom.

Hello in there. ♦