Real-time stock quotes on the house

Posted May 28th, 2008 at 6:59 am by Mark Interrante, Yahoo! Finance

 11 Comments / Filed in: Trends & News

Stock quotes have always been the core piece of the financial information we provide on Yahoo! Finance. In fact, Yahoo! Finance originally launched under the name “Yahoo! Quotes” back in 1996, offering what now seems like the most basic of all financial data. In the process, we helped change the way average investors make financial decisions, and even took some of the weight out of your daily newspaper.

Now, 12 years later, our name has changed and our site has expanded, but our focus on providing the most reliable and timely market information has stayed the same. Today, we’re pleased to bring free real-time quotes back to Yahoo! Finance. As of today, unlimited access to the most current U.S. stock quotes, as of the last trade, are available to all of our users.

It’s a concept we’ve offered before, and one we’ve been focused on bringing back to our users since free real-time quotes were removed from Yahoo! Finance in 2006 when marketplace consolidation made obtaining this information virtually impossible.

We know how important this data was to your financial decisions because you told us, we listened, and we found a solution. Today we begin a partnership with BATS Trading, the electronic communication network and industry leader in free real-time market data. BATS is providing real-time U.S. quotes to Yahoo! Finance at no cost, and we in turn, provide it to you.

What does this mean for you? Business as usual — only better. As you check your stocks on Yahoo! Finance, your free real-time quote will stream right onto your quote summary page.

Check it out for yourself in real time, and check back as we roll real-time data features into new areas of Yahoo! Finance.

Mark Interrante
VP and GM of Yahoo! Finance

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Christopher Penn, Financial Aid Podcast | May 28th, 2008 at 8:24 am

Many thanks for the value-add – much appreciated. Beats the pants off of the other services offering quotes with delays.

i agree with above | May 28th, 2008 at 9:32 am

ya, i agree with above.

YHOO finance is the brightest spot in the whole YHOO network….and the one area where I haven’t switched from YHOO to GOOG.

Mike | May 29th, 2008 at 5:26 am

Yeah, finance.yahoo kicks ass. Better than ‘the competition’ in many ways; I’ve tried switching, but always come back to finance.yahoo at the end.

Keep at it!

Brewer | May 29th, 2008 at 8:25 am

Will you be offering the real time quotes in .csv format for downloading any time soon? Thanks.

Patrick Lightbody | May 29th, 2008 at 10:12 am

Way to go Mark!

Shreyas | May 29th, 2008 at 11:21 am

If we hav the real time quotes, then why do we need the delayed quote?

Andrew Shieh | May 30th, 2008 at 4:10 pm

There’s still a bug in Y! Finance (at least showing in mac safari 3 and mac firefox 2) where pushing the command key changes focus to the “get quotes” box, and if you’re scrolled down, this scrolls you up to the top of the page. This makes it impossible to command-click on links to open them up in separate tabs.

Cire Gastag | June 20th, 2008 at 8:27 am

Mark,

Could you please change the following, not just for myself, but many other people are annoyed by the following.

Streaming quotes defaults to “ON”.
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There’s a delay to have it initialize. If you list 20+ stocks at once and it’s turned “on”, it will significantly slow down my computer. And it’s annoying to have those flashing lights.

Please allow us to permanently turn it off. Maybe an option in user settings. I’m tired of having to constantly deal with it.

Interactive Graph Issues
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I prefer to use the basic graph 90%+ of the time. It loads instantly I find it easier to read. The problem is that, like streaming quotes, anytime I exit my browser or open a new tab, the graph defaults to Interactive (when I click on the graph on the summary page).

Also, if I click any timeframe on the graph on the summary chart (1d 5d 3m 1y, etc), it will take you to the interactive chart and display 1 year. Always. It’s just plain annoying.

Please fix these things.

thanks.

Cire Gastag | June 20th, 2008 at 8:29 am

Mark,

Also on streaming quotes, it defaults to ON if you open a new tab (in firefox) or close and reopen your browser. I spend my life turning it OFF.

Cire Gastag | June 20th, 2008 at 8:33 am

Mark,

One more item.

The MESSAGE BOARDS and SPAM.

I’m surprised anyone still goes to the boards because it’s inundated with spam messages.

I just don’t understand why Yahoo just does what every other message board does – and that is to not allow similar messages to be posted (go to Craigslist to see).

It would STOP the spam. I can go to a board and have to read thru five posts before I get a nonspam message related to the actual stock.

Please fix this. For our sake. For your sake because Google Finance or someone else is going to come along and quickly erode the user base that you’ve taken a decade to build.

Ahse | July 24th, 2008 at 1:29 pm

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Thanks for reading..