Investment for future is a wise thing to do for your
retirement. One form of such investment is purchasing
stocks, which represent a fraction of the company, so that
when you purchase stocks of that company, you are in a way
purchasing into that company. You can get profit if the
company gets profit, and lose money if the performance of
the company goes down. Success in purchasing stocks on the
net comes from the ability to see the bigger picture of the
market and from concentrating on even the smallest details.
Yahoo Finance is one of the services provided by Yahoo that
gives almost all kinds of financial information including
stock exchange rates, stock quotes, financial reports,
corporate press releases and famous message boards to
discuss the stock valuation and prospects of a company. In
addition to that, it also provides some host tools for the
management of personal finance.
At Yahoo Finance, you will have access to a huge range of
financial resources including
- Latest market information including delayed quotes,
historical price data, tracking of personal portfolio, SEC
filings, mutual funds and stocks charts, data of insider
trading, exchange rates of currencies, estimates of
earnings and research, recommendations of brokerage and
listings of industries and sectors.
- The service also includes display of financial news from
different news agencies world wide, editorial contents from
various experts and external links for news from other web
sites.
- Personal finance tools like calculators, rates and
glossary.
- Content on personal finance including how to guides,
comments from experts and latest finance news.
- Interactive features like stock chat rooms and financial
message boards.
- Quotes and information from European markets of UK,
France, Italy and Germany, Asian markets of South Korea and
Japan and markets of Australia and New Zealand.
- And an ample directory of other web sites.
If you want to start investing and want to learn the basics
about financial planning and stock market, the category of
Investment References and Guides on Yahoo Finance directory
can be a great help to you. In this, you will find numerous
resources which will assist you to get started with the
stocks, mutual funds, bonds and other vehicles of
investment. However, in regard to trading actually, Yahoo
Finance is not a provider of brokerage service, but you
will have to register with a stock brokerage firm for
selling and buying stocks. For that purpose, you will have
to go to brokerage listings present in the Yahoo Directory.
Yahoo Finance contains the most updated financial
information on the net. Prices, annual high & low, changes
in dividend rates and outstanding common shares are updated
daily; corporate action items like exchange changes and
stock splits, officer changes and flash earnings
announcements are updated as and when they are announced;
quarterly financial statements, company phone numbers and
addresses and shares that are held in public hands, the
float, are updated after every 3 months; officer names,
number of employees and annual financial statements are
updated every year; the mutual fund reports are updated
once a day at around 6 pm; 2-year, 5-year and max charts
are updated once a week on Friday, after the market gets
closed; Research reports are updated every day; Downgrades
and upgrades are updated 3 times a day; IPO news is
continuously updated during the whole day.
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