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Yahoo Finance

The best way to keep yourself updated about the latest, almost last minute developments in the financial world is to log on to the Yahoo Finance section of the Yahoo website.

Features and Services

Yahoo finance presents a comprehensive picture of the current financial situation both at national and international levels. At national level it depicts the state of economy of the country that Yahoo serves. If you log on to Yahoo finance, you can get free stock quotes, up- to- date financial news, portfolio management resources, international market data, message boards, mortgage rates and much more.

Today's Market

For example, the 'Today's Market' section covers market overview, market updates, news and stories about the current stock market. Yahoo's premium services offer real time reports, research reports and other vital market statistics including the U.S. Indices, World Indices, Exchange Rates, Unusual volume and commodities.

There are financial news and stories about national market where Yahoo is operating, the U.S. markets and other important world economies. It also presents investment tools like Stock Alerts and News Alerts. You can get the latest developments in the Options, mutual fund and bonds markets, the best and the worst performing mutual funds.

Latest Updates

Yahoo Finance also presents important financial news sometimes by minutes. For example, it updated the news about the victory of Nike against the China shoemakers in a court case just 18 minutes after the news of the Nike's win came.

Similarly the news about the drop in oil prices in the stock market appeared just 19 minutes after it was announced. Yahoo Finance also contains daily updated news, stories, tips and suggestions about major companies and markets across the world. These stories are based on the reports of the financial experts.

The news of the damage caused by the Hurricane Dean running at 160 mph and the damage caused by it was flashed just within 2 hours and 8 minutes.

Industries Section

The Industries section of Yahoo Finance details the news about the Biotech, Energy, Media, Telecom and all other financial sectors.

Visitor Education

Yahoo Finance devotes a large amount of space on educating the visitors about investing and personal finance. You are taught the basics of investing including how to get started in investing, risk and returns, choosing a broker and so on. This section provides a great learning experience for the readers. There is lot to learn about managing debt, warning signs and how to manage your credit wisely. There are many important tips about the real estate market and the secrets that your real estate brokers would hate to share with you.

Mutual Funds and Bonds/Options

The section on mutual funds deals with tools to search the important mutual funds in the market. You can learn a lot from the articles devoted to understanding the types of mutual funds, large cap stocks, small cap stocks, growth and value funds, choosing the funds, investment in mutual funds, the U.S. Treasury Bond Rates Bond Market summaries, Bond News, Options and news about them and so on.

The Downside

The problem with Yahoo Finance appears that each of its sections is cluttered with too much information and the readers especially the starters get easily confused with the financial jargon.