Yahoo Finance Review – India Best business News & Financial Media Platform

Company Information – Overview History

Yahoo Finance predominantly a news, entertainment, financial website providing business news and real-time stock market data. It provides powerful tools like Portfolio and Watchlist creation. It offers tools to manage personal finance. It shares live updates of stock markets with live quotes and helps you with real-time quotes of shares of companies and mutual funds. It helps you with all the required information and updated financial and stock market and business news from across the world that will help investors and traders to make an informed decision. It helps experienced investors to research stocks.

Yahoo Finance leveraged the capabilities to present their stock price charts that marked major news events and corporate actions. The site incorporated Yahoo News and Yahoo Blog Search articles about every corporation.

Yahoo Finance home page enables the visitors on the site to view currency based information, sector performance, and listing of top market movers.

It featured the latest and quintessential news pieces from around the world. Yahoo trends have been used to add popularity based top movers section.

Yahoo Finance is a potent money market and investment tool that provides useful charts and segment-wise details. Useful for beginners who are learning the stock market, even for experienced traders and investors intend to invest in the stock market in India, and for traders who want to engage in intraday trading.

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About Yahoo Finance – Summary

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Yahoo Finance Mobile Apps

Leveraging the app, you are not perfectly poised to take advantage of the Yahoo Finance by following the stocks, get personalized news alerts basis your portfolio, access real-time news, stock and investment updates and stay abreast with all the market information you care for. You can watch Yahoo Finance live using the mobile app, Monday through Friday 9AM to 5PM.

You can download the app directly from the home page of Yahoo Finance, or from the Google/App store. The app is compatible with both iOS, and Android versions of operating systems on your mobile phone. Downloading the app will help you to utilize the full potential of the number one finance destination to track the stock & money markets and the economy.

With the help of the app, you can now follow the stocks, get personalized news feeds and alerts, access the real-time stock information, live stock quotes from India and world markets, and stay on top of the market with investment updates.

Premium Features of Yahoo Finance App

• You can read News updates, Track Stock Indexes and stock prices of major companies, View charts and price movements real-time, and access the Premium Dashboard.
• You can track the performance of your personal portfolio
• You will be able to follow stocks on the go, anywhere, anytime, to get real-time quotes and personalized news
• You can discover detailed financial information, historical financials, ESG ratings, and top holders
• You are empowered to check the whole money market instruments, stocks and track currencies, bonds, commodities, equities, world indices, and futures
• You can even have the tools at your disposal to compare and evaluate stocks leveraging the yahoo finance flagship and proprietary interactive full screen charts
• You can sign in to view and edit your web portfolio on the go
• You can follow all the stocks by searching for the ticker and tapping the star icon
• You can create multiple watchlists to organize the stocks, enable notifications for price alerts, watch breaking news, earnings reports, and much more in the offerings.
• You can also sync your portfolios across devices like mobile, laptop, computer desktop

Premium Subscription & Billing Account of Yahoo Finance

If you want take the full benefit and advantage of Yahoo Finance and its proprietary Mobile App, and to the most of Yahoo Finance, you may upgrade to a Premium subscription to access the exclusive investment and money market powerful tools to help you maximize your profits with confidence.

Billing options for US customers are $34.99/monthly or $349.99/yearly. You will be charged on your iTunes account with the payment amount on purchase/payment confirmation from your end. Automatic renewal of your account at the end of each billing period till the time you do not cancel the auto-renewal before 24 hours from the renewal period. The best part of Yahoo Finance subscription is that it can be cancelled at any time from the App Store account settings if you do not wish to continue with the subscription.

Sign-up with Yahoo Finance

Visit Yahoo Finance India Webpage by typing Yahoo Finance on Google Search and click on the first search result. The Indian website of Yahoo Finance home page ill pop up if you are searching from India.

On the upper right corner, you will see the sign in button. You can log in using your existing Yahoo id and password by entering Enter the username, email id, or mobile number and click on next. You can continue logggin in with AOL account as well.

If you do not have an account you may first create an account and a Yahoo login id.

Yahoo Finance Sign Up Process Step By Step

To create an account, click on Create an Account.

• Enter your first name and surname, email id, Mobile number, date of birth, and gender (optional), and click on continue. Next, you need to enter a password of your choice for logging in.
• Next you will be sent a verification code on your mobile. For that, you need to click on ‘Text me a verification code’.
• Next you need to enter the verification code received on your mobile and click on Verify button.
• You will get a welcome message from yahoo finance. Click on Done.
• You will be redirected to the home page of yahoo finance.
• On the upper right corner, you can check mails sent from yahoo finance to your email id.

Yahoo Finance Product & Services

In this section, we will deep dive into the products and services offered by Yahoo Finance in India. In this section, we will analyze all the major tabs of the menu on the Yahoo Finance home page and detail it with insights.

Visit the Yahoo Finance home India to check out the features, functions, and capabilities of Yahoo Finance in India.

 The main menu includes options below:

1. Finance Home
2. My Portfolio
3. Personal Finance
4. Technology
5. Autos
6. Markets
7. News
8. Videos
9. Industry News

Yahoo Finance Features and Functionality Analysis

This section is dedicated to various features and functionality that Yahoo Finance offers and we will detail the ‘How to’ process that empowers Yahoo Finance users and consumers.

Visit Yahoo Finance India Webpage by typing Yahoo Finance on Google Search and click on the first search result. The Indian website of Yahoo Finance home page ill pop up if you are searching from India.

1. Finance

Click on the Finance option on the main menu.

You will get the real-time live stock market Indexes, currency, Cryptocurrency, Commodity from India and world stock markets, such as BSE Sensex, Nifty 50, USD/INR, Dow, Nasdaq, BTC-INR, CMC Crypto, Hang Seng, Nikkei, EUR/INR, GBP/INR, AED/INR, INR/JPY, and SGD/INR.

You will also have the Yahoo mail link on the upper right side, next to your login id. Click on the mail icon and it will redirect you to your inbox.

Next on the home screen, you have the option to download the Best Finance Destination to track markets & economy, the Yahoo Finance Mobile App.

Download the Yahoo Finance mobile app, you #1 financial destination of Indian and world Stock markets.

The home page keep you posted with the latest political, economic, and business news.

On the right side of the screen, you find the list/links of pages that you have recently/last viewed, to give you a quick access in case you want to go back to the same page.

You will also be updated with real-time data on Cryptocurrencies, Currencies, Trending Tickets, and Stocks: Most Active, Stocks: Gainers, Stocks: Losers, Top Mutual Funds, and Futures.

2. My Portfolio

You can maximise Yahoo Finance by creating your own Portfolio and Watchlist. The pre-condition is that you have created an account with Yahoo Finance.

You can start by clicking on the +Create Portfolio link on the upper right corner of the My Portfolios box.

Once you click on +Create Portfolio, you need to enter the portfolio name, select the currency, and click on submit.

So here, I have created a portfolio named Test raj. Now I can add stocks to my portfolio which will be displayed / added in the watchlist under my portfolio.

To add stocks/Index/Symbols, you need to click on the ‘Add Symbols’ link.

So I have selected Yes Bank, and it is now added under my watchlist which I can track now.

Below the watchlist, you can find the Portfolio news related to the stock that I have added, which is Yes Bank. Now I can see the stock performance in terms of the Last Price, Change, Change %, Volume Traded, Average volume (3 months), Day Range, 52-week range, Day Chart, and Market Cap.

You can read all the news and update related the stock instantly, which is a great and a strong feature of the Yahoo Finance Portfolio, which may not be present in other finance and investment websites that allows you to create Portfolios or Watchlists.

You can additionally Print, Import, and Export your portfolio.

You can click on ‘Settings’ to edit your portfolio, such as Edit Currency, Add Holdings, Streaming Quotes On/Off, Compact table density On/Off, Rename Portfolio, and Delete Portfolio.

You can click on the ‘Day Chart’ and you will be track the dynamic price movement on the chart. This is one of the most powerful and dynamic tools on Yahoo Finance.

You can go back to your portfolio by clicking on the back button on the upper left corner, so the toggling between the portfolio / watchlist and the chart is convenient.

You can also check ‘My Holdings’ and ‘Fundamentals’ from the menu.

You may click on ‘create new view’ to add / delete more columns, and reorder the columns to create a new view by overriding the existing view of your watchlist, thereby customising the watchlist/portfolio view as per your choice and convenience.

3. Personal Finance

This section talks about personal finance, savings, returns, and investment opportunities.

This section is divided further under the following heads:

• Careers

If you are looking for job opportunities, you can refer to this section. This section aggregates jobs and recruitment news in one place.

• Real Estate

This section talks about the real estate industry and real estate investment opportunities.

• Loans & Deposits

This section covers the news on Loans and return on deposits news and opportunities for individuals, companies. MSMEs. It also cover gold loans, Education Loans, Home Loans, Auto Loans, Fixed and Recurring Deposits.

• Insurance

This section covers news and latest updates on Life/Term, Health, General insurance, and much more.

• Tax

This section features news on Tax, new tax or changes in policy, furture tax policy amendments, and much more. It keeps you informed on personal tax as well as corporate tax. It covers news or ITR, CBDT, and other taxes in India.

• Mutual Fund

All mutual fund news are aggregated in this section.

• Currency Converter

This is a potent tool of Yahoo Finance which enables you to instantly calculate the currency conversion rates of any currency and of any country.

You can also read world currency related news and latest updates.

4. Technology

You will get the news on technology, latest events, updates, new launches, changes, introduction and innovations, and milestones achieved worldwide.

5. Auto

This section will get you the news and latest update from the automobile industry all over the world.

6. Markets

This section is further divided under the following heads:

• Cryptocurrencies

This is about All Screeners/All Cryptocurrencies. You can read news from all over the world in Cryptocurrencies. Default currency considered is INR but you can check it on any currency of any country worldwide.

You will be able to view matching cryptocurrencies in the list on the screen. You will see the Results list and the Heatmap view. You can share the list.

In the list, you can view Name of the Cryptocurrency, Price (intraday), Change, %change, Market Cap, Volume in Currency (since 0.00 utc), Volume in currency (24 hours), circulating supply, 52-week range, and 1-day chart.

• Calendar

This section features the Yahoo Finance Financial Calendar. Events calendar for 02 Aug – 08 Aug, 2020. You can also check the calendar for previous and future date range. You can check earnings, Stock splits, IPO Pricing of various company stocks.

• World Indices

You will know and track the world indices on this segment of Yahoo Finance. You will see an exhaustive and whole list of indices from stock market around the world, so this section has something for everyone to check out. You can check the Last Price, Change, Change%, Volume, Intra-day High/low, 52-week range, and Day chart, all in one.You can also read news and latest updates related to world indices.

• Stocks: Gainers

You can view All Screener / Day Gainers – India. You will find the matching stocks based on the screener filters, that includes name of the stock, Price (intraday), change, %change, volume, Avg vol (3-months), Market cap, PE ratio (TTM), and 52-week range. You can change filter of the screener, and also can check by symbols. You may also read news on stocks and gainers of the day.

• Stocks: Losers

You can view All Screener / Day Losers – India. You will find the matching stocks based on the screener filters that includes name of the stock, Price (intraday), change, %change, volume, Avg vol (3-months), Market cap, PE ratio (TTM), and 52-week range. You can change filter of the screener, and also can check by symbols. You may also read news on stocks and day losers.

• Stocks: Most Actives

You can view All Screener / Most Actives – India. You will find the matching stocks based on the screener filters that includes name of the stock, Price (intraday), change, %change, volume, Avg vol (3-months), Market cap, PE ratio (TTM), and 52-week range. You can change filter of the screener, and also can check by symbols. You may also read news on stocks and Most Actives in India.

• Currencies

This section lists the currencies of every country in the world. You can track the currencies worldwide in one place. You can view the name of the currency, Last Price, Change, %change, 52-week range, and Day chart. You can read about the currency news and latest update from the world.

• Top Mutual Funds

You can view All Screener / Top Mutual Funds in India. You will find the matching stocks based on the screener filters that includes name of the stock, Price (intraday), change, %change, volume, Avg vol (3-months), Market cap, PE ratio (TTM), and 52-week range. You can change filter of the screener, and also can check by symbols. You may also read news on top mutual funds in India.

• Commodities

You will view the Commodities Futures Prices & Day Charts from Yahoo Finance. You can check the futures by symbols, Futures Name, Last Price, Market Time, Change, %change, Volume, Open Interest, and Day Chart. You may also read the news and latest updates on commodities futures.

• Most Traded Options by Volumes

You can view the Most Traded options by volumes in this segment. You can also read the latest news and updates on the most traded options.

7. News

You will find the latest and the most updated news, trending news, current affairs, political and economic news in this segment. You will find news covered on health, Celebrity, Entertainment, News, Finance, Sports & Cricket too in this segment.

8. Videos

This section is all about videos. The news presented via video clips for readers to watch rather than reading the news. People keen to watch news videos; this is the right place for them to dig in.

9. Industry News

This section helps you to be updated with the Industry News. The section is further divided under the heads below:

• Energy

You can view stock performance of companies from the energy sector. You can view the name of the stock, Last price, Market Time, Change, %Change, Volume, Avg. Vol. (3-month), Market Cap, Intra-day High/Low, 52-week range, and Day Chart. You can also read the latest news on the energy sector and stay updated with the latest news and developments in energy sector.

• Financial

This is the financial – Industry Center – Yahoo Finance. You can view stock performance of companies from the financial and banking sector. You can view the name of the stock, last price, Market Time, Change, %Change, Volume, Avg. Vol. (3-month), Market Cap, Intra-day High/Low, 52-week range, and Day Chart. You can also read the latest news on the financial & banking sector and stay updated with the latest news and developments in financial & banking sector.

• Healthcare

This is the Healthcare – Industry Center – Yahoo Finance. You can view stock performance of companies from the healthcare sector. You can view the stock, last price, Market Time, Change, %Change, Volume, Avg. Vol. (3-month), Market Cap, Intra-day High/Low, 52-week range, and Day Chart. You can also read the latest news on the healthcare sector and stay updated with the latest news and developments in healthcare.

• Information Technology

This is the Information Technology – Industry Center – Yahoo Finance. You can view stock performance of companies from the financial and banking sector. You can view the stock, last price, Market Time, Change, %Change, Volume, Avg. Vol. (3-month), Market Cap, Intra-day High/Low, 52-week range, and Day Chart. You can also read the latest news on the information technology sector and stay updated with the latest news and developments in information technology.

• Telecom & Utilities

This is the Telecom & Utilities – Industry Center – Yahoo Finance. You can view stock performance of companies from the financial and banking sector. You can view the stock, last price, Market Time, Change, %Change, Volume, Avg. Vol. (3-month), Market Cap, Intra-day High/Low, 52-week range, and Day Chart. You can also read the latest news on the Telecom & Utilities sector and stay updated with the latest news and developments in Telecom and utilities sector.

• FMCG

This is the FMCG – Industry Center – Yahoo Finance. You can view stock performance of companies from the FMCG sector. You can view the name of the stock, last price, Market Time, Change, %Change, Volume, Avg. Vol. (3-month), Market Cap, Intra-day High/Low, 52-week range, and Day Chart. You can also read the latest news on the FMCG sector and stay updated with the latest news and developments in the FMCG sector.

• Realty

This is the Realty – Industry Center – Yahoo Finance. You can view stock performance of companies from the Realty sector. You can view the stock, last price, Market Time, Change, %Change, Volume, Avg. Vol. (3-month), Market Cap, Intra-day High/Low, 52-week range, and Day Chart. You can also read the latest news on the Realty sector and stay updated with the latest news and developments in Realty sector.

• Basic Materials

This is the Manufacturing & Materials – Industry Center – Yahoo Finance. You can view stock performance of companies from the manufacturing & materials sector. You can view the stock details, last price, Market Time, Change, %Change, Volume, Avg. Vol. (3-month), Market Cap, Intra-day High/Low, 52-week range, and Day Chart. You can also read the latest news on the manufacturing & materials sector and stay updated with the latest news and developments in Manufacturing & materials sector.

• Consumer Durables

This is the Consumer Durables – Industry Center – Yahoo Finance. You can view stock performance of companies from the consumer durables sector. You can view the name of the stock, last price, Market Time, Change, %Change, Volume, Avg. Vol. (3-month), Market Cap, Intra-day High/Low, 52-week range, and Day Chart. You can also read the latest news on the consumer durables sector and stay updated with the latest news and developments in consumer durables.

• Industrials

This is the Industrials – Industry Center – Yahoo Finance. You can view stock performance of companies from the industrial sector. You can view the name of the stock, last price, Market Time, Change, %Change, Volume, Avg. Vol. (3-month), Market Cap, Intra-day High/Low, 52-week range, and Day Chart. You can also read the latest news on the industrial sector and stay updated with the latest news and developments in industrial sector.

• Power

This is the Power – Industry Center – Yahoo Finance. You can view stock performance of companies from the power sector. You can view the name of the stock, last price, Market Time, Change, %Change, Volume, Avg. Vol. (3-month), Market Cap, Intra-day High/Low, 52-week range, and Day Chart. You can also read the latest news on the power sector and stay updated with the latest news and developments in power sector.

• Auto

This is the Auto – Industry Center – Yahoo Finance. You can view stock performance of companies from the Auto sector. You can view the name of the stock, last price, Market Time, Change, %Change, Volume, Avg. Vol. (3-month), Market Cap, Intra-day High/Low, 52-week range, and Day Chart. You can also read the latest news on the auto sector and stay updated with the latest news and developments in auto sector.

Comparison between Yahoo Finance and Google Finance

The major setback that the Google Finance experienced and lost grounds to Yahoo! Finance is the removal of investment tools for technical analysis by the investors.

This has taken a severe blow to Google Finance in terms of footfall and popularity, and that is why Yahoo Finance is twice as popular as Google Finance.

While Yahoo! Finance captures the top rank, Google Finance ranking 4th is even behind MSN Money and CNN Money.

Google has of late focused on and strengthened its stock charting capability where Yahoo! Lacks, the chart facility.

On the other hand, Yahoo Finance goes strong with the Investment tools and technical analysis for investors, which Google Finance had but removed from its current version.

Google Finance offers a detailed and more comprehensive real-time stock market quotes than the small dose of Yahoo! Finance’s real-time capabilities.

One aspect that stormed the popularity of Google finance is the alleged inaccuracy in the market information. Although, Yahoo! Finance also not free from data inaccuracy, but all of them are smaller anomalies, not as major as the ones Google Finance has.

Google Finance presents and focuses more on the free stock quotes and up-to-date financial and business news across the world covering various companies. Yahoo Finance shows market summaries consist of the U.S. and the world. It has customized news and stock listed on the basis of users’ past search history. Yahoo Finance offers a watchlist that can be very easily created just by one click to track individual stocks and enlist them as your favorites in your watchlist. You can add and remove the stock in the watchlist just by one click.

Yahoo! presented and developed its Finance portal to become the industry-leading business and financial news product. Yahoo! Finance evolved smartly and strategically from its desktop version to the mobile and tablet apps versions as investors are more inclined to stay on top of their investment needs while on the go.

Yahoo! Finance’s objective is rightfully helping investors and traders make informed decisions on investments and financial markets. Google Finance provides financial data and a wide range of applications that surely help users gain detailed and current market information. Yahoo! Finance has in-depth stock analysis pages, with a huge amount of information presented.

Yahoo Finance Review – Conclusion

Yahoo Finance is a financial and business news media platform that empowers you with the listing live free stock market quotes and up-to-date financial and business news across the world. Yahoo Finance shows market summaries consist of the U.S. and the world. It has customized investment tools to manage personal finance and stock. Yahoo Finance supports portfolio creation and watchlist that can be very easily created just by one click to track individual stocks and enlist them in your watchlist for tracking

Yahoo Finance is #1 financial and business news global website where you can find live stock market updates and quotes, latest share prices, Mutual Funds, Stock News & personal finance tips, and world indices listing.

The bottom line of our Yahoo Finance review is that it is an amazing global media platform with many features and it is highly rated and reviewed by its users with its positive upsides than downsides.

Yahoo Finance is the perfect share market and business news partner for you, and you can NEVER be wrong with your choice of Yahoo Finance!

Yahoo! Finance surpasses the data and content capabilities of any financial website, and that is more appealing to the serious investors and traders as compared to its global competitors.

Yahoo Finance FAQs

Q1. What is Yahoo Finance?

Ans. Yahoo Finance is a financial and business news portal that provides free stock quotes live and latest financial and business news across the world. Yahoo Finance shows market summaries consist of the U.S. and the world indices. It has customized news and stock listed on the basis of users’ past search history. Yahoo Finance offers portfolio and watchlist that can be very easily created just by one click to track individual stocks and enlist in your watchlist. You can add and remove the stock in the watchlist just with one click. It also provides powerful charts and tolls to manage personal finance.

Q2. Does Yahoo Finance offer investment tools?

Ans. Yes, Yahoo provides investment tools on its Yahoo Finance Website, and it is one of the most popular and strongest features on the website. Yahoo Finance offers portfolio and watchlist that can be very easily created just by one click to track individual stocks and enlist in your watchlist. You can add and remove the stock in the watchlist just with one click. It also provides powerful charts and tolls to manage personal finance.

Q3. Which is better Yahoo! Finance or Yahoo Finance?

Ans. Based on popularity research by a renowned tech magazine in 2020, Yahoo! Finance ranks on top while Google Finance occupy 4th place after MSN money and CNN Money. People prefer Yahoo! Finance over other financial website.