If you are into any type of investing or are interested in the stock market at all, you are likely going to want to track stocks, at least to some degree. Fortunately, there are a lot of different options out there for you. You can go to the NASDAQ website itself to look up stock quotes. Yahoo! Finance is another popular website for those looking to track stocks. Another popular and effective website is Google Finance.
Google Finance is set up very nicely and intuitively. Right on the front page at http://www.google.com/finance there is a chart showing you a summary of how the market performed that day. This is good to see the overall trend of the market, and if you have any type of fund that tracks the market, you might not even need to do any looking beyond this. This front page will also give you articles showing some of the top news of the day.
If you scroll down, you can get a quick look at how the different sectors in the stock market performed for the day. If you own stocks in the basic materials or technology sector (or any other sector) you will be able to see very quickly how that sector of the market performed. Once again, this could also be important if you own a mutual fund of a particular sector, as it is important to see how things are going over time.
If you are looking to track an individual stock, it is fairly easy to find. There is a search bar at the top of the site, and you should be able to type the ticker symbol (for example, GOOG for Google) or the company name itself, and it will take you right to the stock information for that stock. On that page, you will get all of the key information that you need.
First and foremost, that page will tell you the stock price, and how the stock performed that day. It will tell you how many points up or down the stock is, and what percentage it is up or down by. It will also tell you important information about the company, such as the number of shares and the EPS. You will also be able to easily be able to see a graph of the stock price over any length of time, from the past day to the life of the stock. Everything about the stock is all in one place, making it extremely handy to use.
Google Finance is one of the best sources for users to track stocks on the internet. With just a few clicks, a user can see a graph of the entire stock market, see how each particular sector of the stock market performed, how different world markets performed, or all the information you would want to know about any particular stock or about the company itself. With all of these options, Google Finance is a great tool to use if you are interested in tracking stocks.
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