If you know your search engines, you'll know that Google is king. Their search engine not only produces the most relevant results but it also has 70% of the internet search market share.
Its the prime reason why Yahoo and Microsoft decided to team up to take on the behemoth that is known as Google. Enter Google Finance. Google Finance Screenshot Google Finance is a finance portal that was launched in 2006.
It allows the user to build their finance portfolio while syncing with various markets. Markets include all popular traded markets such as commodities, the forex trading market and the stock market. Google partnered with the Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange to bring real-time stock prices.
To create a portfolio in Google Finance, simply create an account with google. Once that is done, enter google finance and click on "portfolio" on the left. This should bring you to a screen where you stock or mutual fund information should be inputed. Go ahead and enter the price you bought at, commissions etc.
Google Finance will now sync that data with the current price of the stock you bought giving you detailed information on the performance of that stock. Google Finance is not a personal finance software as personal finance is outside its scope. It is not a financial planning tool either. It is a finance info hub for investors of securities.
Google Finance also offer account holders the latest news in the industry from over 4000 news carriers around the world covering popular areas such as forex, stocks etc.
There are discussion groups should you feel the need to mingle or trade investment tips with other investors. Futher Reading - Forex, Forex Trading For a free service, google finance is a fine service for google users.
Its growing popularity reflects this with over 147 million from the United States alone. Due to the fact that internet users that needed finance based information were directed to Yahoo (Yahoo Finance) or MSN for the longest time, Google Finance was created to address this problem. Google Finance is also available in Chinese at this time of writing.
