October 17th, 2008
It's 4:01 P.M.: MSN Money, Yahoo! Finance Get It Down
National Public Radio and other news stations had the Dow Jones close, of course, at 4:01 p.m., no sweat.
Online, you could get the right result (8,851.74, down 127.52) from Yahoo! Finance …
… and MSN Money.
Keep your subscription to Forbes magazine. But don’t hold your breath, even for five minutes, on Forbes.com. There, at 4:05 p.m., stocks were still higher, even though red numbers were seen with a half-hour to go.
Check it out for yourself, when the blue chips are down. Or up.
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld is editor-in-chief of Securities Industry News, as well as a long-time media, technology and business journalist. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
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