Google Finance offers an easier way to search for stocks, mutual
funds, public and private companies. Further, Google Finance also
offers a broad range of company news and information in order to
deliver more relevant, unbiased results in a clean, uncluttered user
interface.
I haven’t looked very carefully yet, but I especially like the fact that
you can search on name and come up with everything, so you don’t need to
know the stock symbol.
I also like that the site correlates market data with news stories, so if you
see a spike or a dip, you don’t have to chase down the reason.
It also provides executive pictures, compensation, stock holdings and
biographies and even a link to any Wikipedia information.
This is all web based information, so there isn’t a lot that is new
here, but it’s nice to have it in one place.
I will post more when I have examined this a little closer!