Yahoo! Finance

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Yahoo! Finance
YahooFinanceLogo.png
URL finance.yahoo.com
Commercial? Yes
Type of site Financial information
Registration Optional
Available language(s) Multilingual
Owner Yahoo!
Created by Yahoo!
Current status Active

Yahoo! Finance is a service from Yahoo! that provides financial information. It is the top financial news and research website in the United States, with more than 23 million visitors in February 2010, according to comScore.[1]

Yahoo! Finance offers information including stock quotes, stock exchange rates, corporate press releases and financial reports, and popular message boards for discussing a company's prospects and stock valuation. It also offers some hosted tools for personal finance management. Yahoo! Finance Worldwide offers similar portals localized to assorted large countries in South America, Europe, and Asia.

[edit] Development history

In the introduction to a 2009 interview with Forbes.com, former general manager Nathan Richardson was said to have built "annual revenue from $10 million to $110 million and expanded the site's content partners from 10 to 200. In 2005 Institutional Investor ranked [Richardson] the most influential person in online finance." In the interview, Richardson described the process of building the financial-information modules and creating a "moat" around the content (to keep visitors sticking to the site). (Richardson is now at Paidcontent.org, part of the Guardian Media Group.)[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ ComScore Press release
  2. ^ Nathan Richardson's Modest Proposal Q&A by Dirk Smillie, Forbes.com, 2-3-09. Retrieved 3-13-09.

[edit] External links

Yahoo! Finance Worldwide:

Personal tools
Namespaces
Variants
Actions
Navigation
Interaction
Toolbox
Print/export
Languages