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What’s new on Google Finance

Earnings season is one of the busiest times in the world of finance. There’s barely enough time to join an earnings call if you are combing through all the latest news and quarterly statements. As a result, we added events content so you never have to miss an earnings call again. You can view earnings calls, analyst meetings, and any other material event on your company and portfolio pages.

It looks much better than the stock screener from Yahoo Finance, which is anything but intuitive. Even if it looks outdated, Yahoo Finance has more features and content, so its user base won’t migrate to Google Finance for the vivid charts and the clever integration of news headlines.

Stock Charts With News Events: Pull up a stock chart, and Google says it will plot major news events on the chart. So did the stock suddenly jump skyward or plunge down? Seeing the related news events right on the chart may give you a better idea why.

As Henry Blodget points out at Silicon Alley Insider, Yahoo! Finance has had real time quotes for a while now and the companies appear to be engaged in some minor squabbling about who’s real time quotes are more real time. That’s a secondary, albeit important, matter as far as we’re concerned. Of more general interest is the increasing availability of and user expectation for real time information on the web.

It’s important to have up-to-date market data. It’s equally important that that data stay up to date. Consequently, we’re enabling the streaming of quotes across Google Finance. Prices will update automatically, once per second, to reflect current market conditions.

Earnings season is one of the busiest times in the world of finance. There’s barely enough time to join an earnings call if you are combing through all the latest news and quarterly statements. Today, we’re adding content on these events content so you never have to miss an earnings call again.