Taiwan Stock Exchange pricing data

Posted by Matthew Simmons, Market Data Gnome

We've just added support to Google Finance for Taiwan Stock Exchange listings. In addition to news and descriptive data (which we already offer for these listings), you'll now see intra-day data and pretty charts. You can search for companies by name using the search box. You can also search by ticker -- for example, if you'd like to find the current price for stock in MediaTek, you can search for it by name, as 2454.TW, or as TPE:2454. Similarly, if you'd like to find the current price for stock in Cathay Financial, you can search for it by name, as 2882.TW, or as TPE:2882. The TAIEX can be found as .TWII or ^TWII.

As always, if you find any problems, please let us know.

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Introducing the Stock Screener

Posted by Daniel Switkin, Software Engineer

I'm very happy to announce that today we are introducing a new stock screener to Google Finance. If you haven't used one before, a screener is an advanced search tool that lets you find companies which match a set of criteria. For example, you could search for large companies with a PE ratio less than 20 which pay at least a 5% dividend. Or you could screen for small tech companies with strong 5 year growth. It's entirely up to your investment strategy.

There are a number of new and cool features I'd like to mention. Anytime you make adjustments like setting a value, removing a criteria, or limiting the search to a single exchange, the list of results updates automatically. The search is completely live -- no buttons to press. We also have blue and white histograms so you can see the distribution of all companies for a particular value--for example there are far more companies with a market cap below one billion dollars than above. You can either grab the sliders or type exact values to the set the minimum and maximum for each criteria.

Once you have run a screen that you like, you can bookmark the page or email the link to a friend. Since not all of the criteria may be familiar terms, we've included definitions in the Add Criteria wizard, as well as a help icon next to each line.

As always, please let us know how you like it. We're hard at work on new features and want to incorporate your suggestions. Happy screening!

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iGoogle chart gadget fixes

Posted by Vivi Costache, Software Engineer

A while ago we launched an iGoogle Finance tab with various gadgets. We received a ton of feedback from you, and one of the main questions was "why are there no fancy finance charts there"? It was a bit of a challenge to add those nice charts using iGoogle, so it took more time than we hoped. And now... the Google Finance Chart gadget is ready for you!

Add the Google Finance Chart gadget »

We've even added a configuration option for setting the default number of days on your gadget so that it best fits your trading habits.

So go ahead and watch your favorite stock (or combination of stocks by entering multiple tickers) on iGoogle and let us know if you have any other suggestions for our fancy charts gadget. We're listening.

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Tell us what you think

Posted by Marianne Berkovich, user experience researcher

We’re looking to get some organized feedback from y’all about Google Finance. Please take a few minutes to take our survey and tell us about how you use it -- which features you like, which you don’t use, and a bit about what kind of investor you are.

This survey will help us learn what’s working for you and focus our energies on the areas that matter most to you. We look forward to hearing from you!

Take our survey!

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Google Finance heads across the pond

Posted by Nick Fey, Google Finance designer


Being a British bloke I am particularly pleased to announce the launch of Google Finance in the UK (http://finance.google.co.uk). Now it's easier for us Brits to get our own European public and private company information as well as UK mutual fund data. In addition you can find GBP currency quotes on the home page, so we can feel smug about how much cheaper everything will be when we visit the U.S. The local UK business news will give you the latest information about the European markets and we will be improving the relevance of stories and speed of news delivery even more over the coming months.

This UK launch is the second in a series of local versions of the Google Finance site, following Google Finance Canada, which launched last summer. We have received many requests to bring this service to other countries around the world, and will be working to do that this year. Kudos to the small crew of engineers on the Finance site who have managed to do this as well as build some great new features that we will be rolling out in 2008.

Please feel free to leave comments on this blog or send us email through the Help Center requesting new features. While we can't respond to them all individually, don't feel that they are being ignored; your feedback has a huge impact on how we prioritize our work.

To all my china plates back in the UK -- enjoy.

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Finance + Gadgets = Fun

by Geoff Pike, Google Finance 20% Engineer

Inspired by the entertaining and informative Google Finance tab for iGoogle, I created a charting gadget that displays bigger charts with a light dose of technical analysis. I can't claim great knowledge of (or success with) said analysis, but I like to look at moving averages and occasionally other indicators computed from recent price and volume action.

The details: weekly price and volume data come from Google Finance; prices are plotted on a log scale, with 10- and 40-week moving averages; and a "hot/cold" indicator is presented at the bottom of the chart. A security is deemed "hot" if its price was up three straight weeks with increasing volume each week. (Alternately, a security is marked "cold" if it was down for the same interval.) Prices are plotted in blue, with green for the 10-week, and yellow for the 40-week moving averages. This gadget works only on iGoogle.

My gadget is not an official Google gadget -- it's more like a fun experiment. Comments are welcome! Or, if you'd like to write your own charting gadget, take a look at my source code and the Google Chart API documentation.

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Borsa Italiana pricing data

Posted by Matthew Simmons, Market Data Gnome



We're happy to let you know we're now able to offer pricing data for Borsa Italiana listings. In addition to news and descriptive data (which we already offer for these listings), you'll now see intra-day market data and charts. You can search for companies by name using the search box, or you can search by ticker. For example, if you'd like to find the current price for stock in Alitalia, you can search for it by name, by RIC as AZPIa.MI, or as BIT:AZA.

As always, if you notice any problems, please let us know. It may take us longer than we'd like to resolve issues, but we do read every report.

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