Tag Archives: google finance

Weekly roundup: highlights for the week ending Aug. 13

This is a weekly feature at IR Web Report highlighting articles and commentaries of interest to our readers. How News Consumption is Shifting to the Personalized Social News Stream The social network of a reader is quickly becoming their personalized news wire. That’s because in the last five years, a revolutionary shift has taken place [...]

Why Yahoo Finance continues to give Google Finance a noogie

In spite of being one of the lone voices online who actually likes and uses Google Finance (check out my Yahoo Finance vs. Google Finance post), it’s becoming clearer and clearer that I’m really in the minority.
The NYT ran an article this weekend that looked at both Yahoo Finance and Google Finance.  A good read, [...]

Google Finance refresh is, well, refreshing

Kudos to the Google Finance team.  While Google Finance’s first lead, Katie Stanton is off galavanting somewhere within the Obama administration (go Katie!), Google Finance hasn’t missed a step.  While I may be criticized as a G Finance pump monkey, I’ve always enjoyed their simple platform.  For looking up quotes, monitoring the portfolio and simple [...]

Screening 2.0: Some more resources

Investors frequently ask me what tools I use to research stocks, ETFs or mutual funds online.  My typical response is to point them to Yahoo Finance and Google Finance and then to drill down to both sites’ screening tools.  They are good tools, frequently robust enough for most individual investors.  Screening 2.0, an important placeholder [...]