May 7th, 2007
Google Finance gets new features
If you use Google Finance on a regular basis, you may be interested in some of the new functionality they just announced on their official blog. Google Finance doesn't have anywhere close to a comparable user-base as Yahoo Finance, but with each update, the likelihood of people making the switch increases. Here are a list of changes made to the product today:
- Historical prices: View and download historical end-of-day prices for any U.S. or Canadian company
- Portfolios: You can now download the latest portfolio performance and transaction details from your portfolio
- News feeds: Stay on top of the news using your feed client such as Google Reader, Bloglines, or as part of your iGoogle
- Last week, you may have read that there are now ticker symbols on news results for public companies on Google News. Click on the symbol and you'll go to the corresponding page on Google Finance.
In addition to the above mentioned features, I am also excited to see you can now add symbols that don't belong to US indexes in your portfolio. For example, now I can register all the stocks I own through the TSE without getting an error telling me I entered an invalid symbol. I am also excited about the integration between Google Finance and Google Calendar too though — now I don't have to spend time looking for events I care about, Google will do that for me.
Garett Rogers is employed as a programmer for iQmetrix, which specializes in retail management software for the wireless industry.
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