Company Financials

Posted by Vivi Costache, Software Engineer A while ago we launched an iGoogle Finance tab with various gadgets. We received a ton of feedback from you, and one of the main questions was "why are there no fancy finance charts there"? It was a bit of a challenge to add those nice charts using iGoogle, so it took more time than we hoped. And now... the Google Finance Chart gadget is ready for you! Add the Google Finance Chart gadget » We've even added a configuration option for setting the default number of days on your gadget so that it best fits your trading habits. So go ahead and watch your favorite stock (or combination of stocks by entering multiple tickers) on iGoogle and let us know if you have any other suggestions for our fancy charts gadget. We're listening.

Posted by Marianne Berkovich, user experience researcher We’re looking to get some organized feedback from y’all about Google Finance. Please take a few minutes to take our survey and tell us about how you use it -- which features you like, which you don’t use, and a bit about what kind of investor you are. This survey will help us learn what’s working for you and focus our energies on the areas that matter most to you. We look forward to hearing from you! Take our survey!

Posted by Nick Fey, Google Finance designer Being a British bloke I am particularly pleased to announce the launch of Google Finance in the UK ( http://finance.google.co.uk) . Now it's easier for us Brits to get our own European public and private company information as well as UK mutual fund data. In addition you can find GBP currency quotes on the home page, so we can feel smug about how much cheaper everything will be when we visit the U.S. The local UK business news will give you the latest information about the European markets and we will be improving the relevance of stories and speed of news delivery even more over the coming months. This UK launch is the second in a series of local versions of the Google Finance site, following Google Finance Canada, which launched last summer. We have received many requests to bring this service to other countries around the world, and will be working to do that this year. Kudos to the small crew of engineers on the Finance site who have...

by Geoff Pike, Google Finance 20% Engineer Inspired by the entertaining and informative Google Finance tab for iGoogle, I created a charting gadget that displays bigger charts with a light dose of technical analysis . I can't claim great knowledge of (or success with) said analysis, but I like to look at moving averages and occasionally other indicators computed from recent price and volume action. The details: weekly price and volume data come from Google Finance; prices are plotted on a log scale, with 10- and 40-week moving averages; and a "hot/cold" indicator is presented at the bottom of the chart. A security is deemed "hot" if its price was up three straight weeks with increasing volume each week. (Alternately, a security is marked "cold" if it was down for the same interval.) Prices are plotted in blue, with green for the 10-week, and yellow for the 40-week moving averages. This gadget works only on iGoogle. My gadget is not an official Goog...

Posted by Matthew Simmons, Market Data Gnome We're happy to let you know we're now able to offer pricing data for Borsa Italiana listings. In addition to news and descriptive data (which we already offer for these listings), you'll now see intra-day market data and charts. You can search for companies by name using the search box, or you can search by ticker. For example, if you'd like to find the current price for stock in Alitalia, you can search for it by name , by RIC as AZPIa.MI , or as BIT:AZA . As always, if you notice any problems, please let us know . It may take us longer than we'd like to resolve issues, but we do read every report.

Posted by Gundy, Google Finance engineer Today, we're excited to release a Google Finance tab on iGoogle. This tab is a dashboard of financial gadgets which enables you to add, customize and share your Google Finance experience. But here's what's extra cool about these gadgets -- they now have communication skills and can "talk" or "sync" with each other. As part of this release, we're introducing a bunch of new gadgets, including: - Top Movers - SnapQuote - Related companies - Company overview - MiniChart - Company Sector Ready to see this tab in action? But wait, there's more! If you're a developer, we just made it easier for you to make a stock market gadget with our new API. The gadget API for market data provides a framework so developers can display stock market information from the American, Nasdaq and New York stock exchanges within a gadget on Google properties. Unfortunately, due to data licensing restrictions, we couldn't open...

Posted Matthew Simmons, Market Data Gnome We're pleased to announce the availability of pricing data for Australian (ASX) and New Zealand (NZX) listings on Google Finance . We've always had descriptive data and news for these listings -- now we have all that plus intra-day market data and pretty charts. You can search for companies by name using the search box. Alternatively, you can search by ticker. For example, if you'd like to find the current price for stock in the Auckland International Airport, you can search for it by name , as AIA.NZ , or as NZE:AIA . Similarly, if you'd like to find the current price for stock in Billabong, you can search for it by name , as BBG.AX ,or as ASX:BBG . As always, if you notice any problems, please let us know . It may take us longer than we'd like to resolve reported problems, but we do read every report.