Google Finance is one of the most comprehensive sources of financial information and data on the Web. The site offers stock quotes and interactive charts containing up to 40 years of data, news articles about the market and economy, and a list of major public and private companies. Google Finance portfolios will now accurately reflect the split, showing your purchase of 100 shares in Transactions view, but accurately reporting your current holdings as 300 shares in Performance view. At the same time, your cash value will now be $2,459.69, thanks to all the dividends GE has since your purchase. Google Finance updates the position every time it receives a transaction for that position.
Google Finance no longer requires remembering company stock symbols, but automatically forwards searches to the appropriate page. Google Finance also won’t tell you about stock options outstanding. As pretty much all value investors will tell you, the value of stock options directly impacts the value of common shares. Google Finance China will be a practical tool for Chinese investors to get up-to-date and comprehensive financial information. The site includes popular features such as Google Suggest for stock codes, whether you enter the stock code or name in Chinese or pinyin, and a display of financial information from Chinese sources on the stock price chart.
Google Finance also offers after-hours stock quotes for several different companies. Be advised that this feature may not be available for all securities, but you can view a delayed quote for most popular and well-known stocks. Google Finance launched more than three years ago. By now, it is a fully baked finance site.
Blog posts is definitely going to be an extra source of information to investors and this is something new in online financial news sites. Well, of course after looking through every bit of the information listed in Google Finance, you can discuss them in appropriate discussion boards in Google Groups as well. Blog commentary at Memeorandum varies but seems to compare it unfavorably to the established Yahoo Finance across their total sets of services, with some commentators calling the charting system “ajax widgets”. Update: Folks who took the time to check the source markup showed that Flash Player 7 was the minimum audience requirement, so the browser/plugin intercommunication technique was “Flash JavaScript Integration Kit” , which went plugin-to-browser via “javascript:” pseudo-URLs, and browser-to-plugin with the invisible DIV/FRAME technique, loading a hidden SWF which communicated to the visible SWF via Flash’s localConnect ability.