A big part of investing is about gathering information and knowledge. With websites popping up everyday that tries to teach you the basics and bring you the latest news, where do you go?
Below are 9 websites that will for sure occupy your time and energy for hours every day in hopes to find the holy grail of wealth!
- Yahoo Finance [1]
From the money losing machine comes a very profitable and arguably the most established finance news and research site. Yahoo has done many things wrong but this financial portal helped pioneered the industry and contains a wealth of information for novice and experts alike. - Finance Google [2]
As a complete opposite, Finance Google was created by the extremely profitable company that is most likely losing money. Google is a no frills financial website that got a lot of hype before launch and totally shoved to aside these days. If anything, Google’s name has made it quite popular amongst younger crowds. - CNBC.com [3]
The perfect complement to a well established TV station, CNBC [4] has gathered much traffic through the years. However, the website is so tied to the programming on the actual TV channel that most people who never go their unless they’ve watched CNBC that day. - Bloomberg.com [5]
In the “I now have one too” department, Bloomberg must have the most basic (at first glance) portal ever created by a corporation [6]. Diving deeper, there are actually many tools and a ton of articles for research purposes but spend some money on design guys! - CNN Money [7]
One of the cleaner websites out there, the layout is simple and inviting. The most I like about this website is its free access to many articles of the Money magazine! One suggestion though, if you are branding the website CNNMoney.com, then please don’t redirect it to cnn.money.com (or is it money.cnn.com). This is of course not an issue if you are trying to appeal to the Chinese [8] (disclaimer: I am Chinese) - The Motley Fool [9]
The Gardner brothers are geniuses and true entrepreneurs who realized early that they can do it better and cheaper themselves. Their branding is so deep within us investors that we must be fools not to be a fool. - Financial Times [10]
The award for the longest load time during writing and review, Financial Times was only considered because of its ultra short domain name. Can you imagine how much money they can sell the domain name for?On a side note, it’s been a while since I’ve read the financial times print edition. I wonder if it still has that orangy-pink color?
- The Street.com [11]
The #1 interesting section is undoubtedly Jim Cramer’s videos and articles. A close second – how did the company behind it be allowed to go public? Seriously though, if you are a Jim Cramer fan (or someone who respects his opinion), the website has tons of free (and paid) content from him. - Seeking Alpha [12]
A portal made by people with tons of funding, it’s the closest and most blogger friendly financial portal around. Many of the articles seem to be written by average investors who sees the financial markets in the same angle that we do, so maybe we can call this one a “group” blog.It will be interesting to see if this company will be profitable and survive in the long run but time will tell!
Here it is, 9 terrific investing websites that I come across quite frequently. What are some of the ones you go to? Anyone that isn’t on there?