Google Finance

Thanks to the folks at Seeking Alpha for pointing out the Google has launched a finance page, similar to Yahoo Finance for stock information.

It is new so it will take some getting used to. There is much more detail on the main page than Yahoo has on its summary page which is a good thing. Another neat thing is that the page has a section of blog headlines. Most of the stocks I looked at though had some old blog content.

There are still a few things to work out. The charting is very weak. The foreign stock info is also weak. It either does not have currencies or I could not figure it out. It did not recognize the Euro Currency Trust (FXE).

For things like options and earnings estimates you get referred to outside sites and I'm not sure what I think of that just yet.

A couple of months ago I stumbled across Clearstation and that site seemed more intuitive, somehow, than my first look at Google Finance.

I have to think it will tighten up over the next few months. I think it can be better than Yahoo in time which perhaps means that Yahoo will then strive to make improvements. I read something somewhere that Yahoo has plans for better charts, as an example.

We'll all have to stay tuned.