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network. It provides

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news, data and commentary including stock quotes, press releases,

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s, and original content. It also offers online tools for

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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,

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, Amazon Freevee, and

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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

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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

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, following a similar partnership with

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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

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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