December 11, 2006
From the desk of Jane Galt:So, I used Yahoo Finance for my every day economics writing. Or, I should say, used. Google just unveiled their new, updated finance site, and it's waaaaaay cool. The charts allow you to mouse over to see the actual level at the peaks . . . no more having to go back and do price lookups! Yippeeee!
Yes, that's me shouting.
They've also got a pretty seriously cool sectoral overview, and a top gainers and losers section, which is mostly good for fun . . . but what fun Schadenfreude is. Now if they'll just add currencies and a little more international data . . . a loan calculator, perhaps . . . they'll have my loyalty for life . . .
Update: They have currencies, above recent quotes. Thanks guys. But how about a little clearer labelling?
Posted by Jane Galt at December 11, 2006 9:28 PM | TrackBack | Technorati inbound links"); ?>Jane-- are you sure that this is a very recent development? I think it has worked that way for a while. If not, I am misreading you badly.
Also, your employer should buy you a Cap Iq subscription. Or a Bloomberg. Something, for G-d's sake.
Posted by: Bob Dobalina on December 11, 2006 9:55 PMKevin-- I'd suggest using your imagination.
Also, the stagnation shown by its products gets me wondering what Yahoo! is doing with its budget. I'm a Google bear (I think Damodaran's case is pretty good), but I can't help but wonder if YHOO is soon going to suffer the same fate that eventually awaits all technology also-rans.
Posted by: Bob Dobalina on December 11, 2006 10:15 PMYahoo! Finance has had interactive charts for a while. They look nicer too.
Posted by: AT on December 11, 2006 11:37 PMDon't imply Bullishness, but YHOO isn't going to 0 anytime soon. Their mindshare, right now, is simply too huge.
Posted by: Mark E Hoffer on December 12, 2006 12:08 AMI couldn't disagree more. Yahoo's finance section is much deeper -- currency, commodity, option price, historical price, new issue, IPO, global index and essential/fundamental company info are nowhere to be found on other sites. The AJAXed methods that Yahoo has used to integrate the realtime stock price displays throughout their site really rock. My biggest fear is that future YHOO redesigns are more cutsey-pooh and less hard core.
Posted by: Kent on December 12, 2006 9:00 AMI agree with Bob. I do not know how Yahoo does it's thinking. May be they need a strategist.what do you think.
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Posted by: Joe on December 12, 2006 10:03 AM> they'll have my loyalty for life . . .
Do you really want us to believe that you'll stick with Google finance even if something better comes along?
Posted by: Andy Freeman on December 12, 2006 12:20 PM"So, I used Yahoo Finance for my every day economics writing. Or, I should say, used."
You did say "used."
Posted by: gab on December 12, 2006 5:24 PMgoogle finance is laughable.
yhoo has complete quarterly/annual income statement, balance sheet, and cashflow statements, analysts estimates & recommendations, industry overviews, and more. if the stuff was just downloadable that would practically eliminate the need for any subscription service.
Posted by: ptkelly on December 12, 2006 6:34 PMYou can mouse along Yahoo technical charts in Beta easily, and do Bollinger bands with different than the standard series, and a bunch of other stuff. Google's pages are cute, I grant you, but I don't care for cute in financial analysis.
Posted by: ellipsis on December 15, 2006 10:36 PM