Western Union has taken of 451st position in the rating Fortune 500 in 2009, having moved from 473rd line in 2008. As a result of 2011, net income of Western Union has increased by 28% to $ 1.165 billion, the company reported. Thanks to cooperation with Western Union the Associated Press at the end of the XIX century took almost monopolistic position in the U.S. market news. In 2000 was launched the Web site westernunion.com, with which users from certain countries can independently transfer funds online. In 1884 Western Union has become a joint-stock company and was brought to the stock exchange. The company has entered in the first American stock index Dow Jones. Western Union made so that the time in all of American civil services was the same.