Google Finance: the perfect view of the credit crunch

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

We’re all keeping a close eye on the financial markets at the moment – not least to check whether our mortgage company has just moved into Number 10.

My first port of call for financial news has traditionally been The Financial Times, but the online pink pages have recently been usurped by Google’s quite exceptional Finance site. (There’s a UK version of the site, too.)

Not only does this collate all the latest business news (including the FT’s) into one digestable lump, but it presents the latest market data in such an effortlessly customisable fashion that it should be awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics. 

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