October 2005
Intermediate to advanced
489 pages
12h 2m
English
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Track Your Investments
Yahoo! Finance can help you track the performance of your stocks, bonds, or mutual funds.
Financial information that was once available only to brokers and Wall Street insiders is now available to anyone in the world with an Internet connection. Yahoo! Finance collects much of the information available about stocks, bonds, and mutual funds into a single site, and it’s a fantastic resource for do-it-yourself investors. As financial guru Andrew Tobias put it, “You should manage your own money. No one is going to care about it as much as you.” Managing your own investments means there’s more work for you, but the online tools at Yahoo! Finance can help you get a picture of where your investments stand.
Get Quotes and News
Yahoo! Finance is well known for providing stock quotes and business news. (Even Yahoo! competitor Google sends people to Yahoo! Finance for more detailed information when they look up a ticker symbol.) Simply type a ticker symbol into the form at the top of the page at Yahoo! Finance (http://finance.yahoo.com) to see a detailed page with the current trading price (delayed 20 minutes) and information about the stock’s activity for the day. Figure 2-1 shows the stock detail page for Yahoo’s symbol (YHOO).
Figure 2-1. Details about YHOO at Yahoo! Finance
Running down the left side of the page, you’ll find links to detailed information about the stock, ...