It slipped past me in October that Google Finance began offering Australian share market prices and reports.
One of my few reasons for using Yahoo previously had been its superior Australian market coverage.
Now I can go to the cleaner look of Google and not worry about flickering ads.
Google Finance incorporates the Google News service, which gathers stories from more than 4500 English news sources worldwide. Stories are clustered by topic, so you can see different opinions on a single subject.
The availability of pricing data for Australian (ASX) and New Zealand (NZX) listings on Google Finance was announced in October 2007. The blog post said:
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.
Update (December 2011): There doesn’t appear to have been much progress since 2007 with Google Finance in terms of its Australian offering. The news service though is fresh and relevant.
