Yahoo Offers Live Stock Ticker For Free!

I was more than a little surprised today to see Yahoo posting live stock ticker data in their finance section. This is the sort of information stock sites charge money for.

I tried checking on my stocks when I was both logged in and not logged in. Both times the FREE stock ticker data appeared above the general stock information area of Yahoo Finance.

I did a quick scan of the news to see if there was a news release about this and I found nothing.

If you look below the block you will find this message:

Quotes delayed, except where indicated otherwise. For consolidated real-time quotes (incl. pre/post market data), sign up for a free trial of Real-time Quotes.

Yahoo charges between $10.95 and $13.95 monthly for the up-to-date ticker information. Why they are now giving this information away for free is a mystery to me. Mystery or not, I like it.

Posted by Scammer Sam

3 Comments

  1. jon, October 21, 2008:

    use third party stock ticker like this one Stock Ticker Application Bar

  2. jon, October 21, 2008:

    http://www.ashkon.com/ts.html

  3. Andrew Knighta, November 20, 2008:

    Hi Scammer Sam,

    I’m emailing you in regards to an email I sent to you last month about a partnership, have you had a chance to think about it?

    If you have any questions or would more information, please advise me and we can go from there.

    Kind Regards,
    Andrew Knight

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