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Yahoo Finance

Media property and part of the Yahoo network

Field	Value
name	Yahoo Finance
logo	Yahoo! Finance logo.svg
logo_size	240px
location_city	New York City, New York
location_country	USA
launch_date
registration	Optional
owner	Yahoo Inc.
author	Yahoo
url
ipv6	Yes
website_type	News & finance
current_status	Active
key_people	Tapan Bhat (President and General Manager)

Yahoo Finance is a media property that is part of the Yahoo network. It provides financial news, data and commentary including stock quotes, press releases, financial reports, and original content. It also offers online tools for personal finance management, including portfolio tracking, interactive charts, and stock screening. In addition to posting paid partner content from other web sites, it posts original stories by its team of staff journalists. Comscore ranked Yahoo Finance as the number 1 most popular financial news and research site in 2008, a ranking it has continued to maintain as of May 2024. , the site had approximately 150 million monthly active users.

In 2017, Yahoo Finance added the feature to look at news surrounding cryptocurrency.

Yahoo Finance video programs have been made available via connected TVs and devices, including Apple TV, Samsung TV Plus, YouTube, Amazon Freevee, and DirecTV.

History

In 2001, Yahoo Finance launched a subscription service providing access to real-time stock quotes; quotes on the free service were provided on a 20-minute delay. The site stopped using ticker information from Reuters in favor of direct feeds from major U.S. exchanges in 2005. A 2006 redesign introduced interactive charts to the site, and it began offering free real-time stock quotes in 2008. In 2012, Yahoo Finance began a content-sharing partnership with CNBC, following a similar partnership with ABC News the previous year. In February 2016, Comscore reported that Yahoo Finance had 78 million monthly active users.

Yahoo Finance began providing live video content in 2017 and added more video programming in 2018. Apollo Global Management acquired Yahoo in 2021, stating an aim to grow the Yahoo Finance business. In August 2023, Yahoo acquired CommonStock, a San Francisco-based social platform for retail investors to share insights based on their linked brokerage accounts. The site introduced a redesign in November 2023.

Recognition

The Yahoo Finance app was a Webby Award honoree in 2017, and Yahoo Finance was an honoree in 2022. In 2023 and 2024, the New York Press Club gave Yahoo Finance awards for journalism.

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(May 26, 2015). "Who's winning at business news on the Web". Digiday.
(June 18, 2024). "Yahoo Finance gains on competitors in May". Talking Biz News.
(April 15, 2024). "Yahoo Finance Expands Content For Investors, Advertisers Too". MediaPost.
"Cryptocurrency List & Prices, Top Cryptocurrencies - Yahoo Finance".
(December 14, 2018). "Yahoo Finance launches Apple TV app". Broadband TV News.
(November 17, 2023). "Samsung TV Plus reports massive growth in viewership". Broadband TV News.
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(June 21, 2024). "How to watch and listen to Yahoo Finance". Yahoo Finance.
(April 3, 2001). "Yahoo! to charge for stock quotes". Campaign UK.
(April 3, 2001). "Yahoo! Misses On Financial Services". Forbes.
(January 30, 2005). "Yahoo to feed its own stock ticker service". CNET.
(July 17, 2006). "Yahoo Finance gets a face-lift". CNET.
(June 2, 2008). "Google, WSJ, CNBC get real-time Nasdaq stock quotes on the Web". CNET.
(June 13, 2012). "To Bolster Web Reach, CNBC Joins With Yahoo". The New York Times.
(May 20, 2023). "Yahoo, CNBC team up for financial news coverage". Washington Post.
(6 April 2016). "How Yahoo is trying to save its media business". CNBC.
(April 19, 2017). "In leaner approach, Yahoo Finance pushes live streams over scripted series". Digiday.
(July 31, 2018). "Scoop: Yahoo Finance launching live video streaming network this year". Axios.
(May 4, 2021). "Apollo believes its Yahoo revival plan can succeed where others failed". Financial Times.
(August 24, 2023). "Yahoo buys San Francisco social finance startup". San Francisco Business Times.
(November 7, 2023). "Yahoo Finance Redesigns, Reduces Available Ad Units". MediaPost.
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(2023). "Roger Sollenberger of the Daily Beast Wins New York Press Club's Gold Keyboard Award for 2023; North Shore Leader Wins Gabe Pressman Truth to Power Award for George Santos Revelations; Winners Announced in 30+ Categories". New York Press Club.
(May 13, 2024). "2024 Gold Keyboard Award to Spectrum News NY1 Team for Story on Child Welfare Deaths in New York Full Slate of Journalism Awards Announced - The New York Press Club". New York Press Club.

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