Google: How To Leverage the Power of Internet Searching

About Google Finance

 

"Google Finance offers an easy way to search for stocks, mutual funds, and public and private companies. By combining content licensed from financial data providers with content from the Web, Google Finance lets you easily find and manage your financial information online."

Source: Google

Using Google Finance

 

How can Google Finance help you with your research?

Google finance is useful when you are looking for basic information about a company, stocks, funding, etc. Here are a few features that will help you focus and refine your searches.

Company Search

Use both the company name and ticker symbol to get information on:

• stocks
• mutual funds
• public and private companies

 

 

 

 

 

 

Financial News Stories

Aggregated from over 4,500 English news sources, Google Finance groups stories by topics allowing you to see several different opinions on a single issue and plotted chronologically.. There are company summary pages with financial review features.

 

 

Interactive charts

News stories are correlated to market data from parallel time frames showing you the relationship between them. You can quickly see how the market responds to news stories for a specific company.