My Yahoo! Blog

From “Wall Street” to “wallet.”

Recession? Housing crisis? Information is your friend in these uncertain times and My Yahoo! is the perfect matchmaker.

Stock Market Information
The stock market is one of the best indicators of economic viability. The Yahoo! Stock Portfolio from Yahoo! Finance will help you easily keep track of your financial information.

Mortgage Information
Stocks are one thing, your mortgage is another. Keep tabs on the ever-changing housing situation with news that can affect your monthly payments from Bankrate.com.

Independent, frequent insights can help shape the decisions you make about your home. The Housing Bubble Blog is a great resource for homeowner and renter alike.

Spending Advice
Another way to arm yourself in a shaky economy is to think about how you save and spend. Savingadvice.com offers regular tips and ideas that you may not have considered.

The bottom line to keeping financially secure is to inform yourself and stay on top of your personal financial picture. Try the Forbes.com module to stay ahead of the financial curve. You’ll get business and lifestyle headlines along with a daily video to keep you in the know.

Enjoy!

Jay
- My Yahoo! Editorial Guru

Wall Street on your page.

With The Wall Street Journal module, you get the best in-depth business news and financial information 24 hours a day. Stay in the know with breaking business news, technology insights, and analysis from around the world. Complete with Top Business News, Today’s Free Features, and the Top Video of the Day, this module will give you the news and analysis you need to be an expert in today’s business climate. The only thing missing will be the ink on your fingers!

For WSJ.com subscribers, the module offers quick and easy access to the top business stories right from your My Yahoo! page. For non-subscribers, the module offers access to a number of free daily articles on WSJ.com as well as free video links. Enjoy!

Add The Wall Street Journal module to your page.

My Yahoo! = My Financial Dashboard

I have been an active My Yahoo! user since its launch. The Stock Portfolios module was the first tool I used to track stocks. At that time the only investment I made was with my employee stock plans, so I used the module mainly to monitor how other companies in my industry were doing. A bubble and thousands of trades later, I am now actively managing a portfolio of a dozen securities and closely researching more than 100 others. I still find the Stock Portfolios module my best companion when I enjoy the roller-coaster ride of the capital markets.

As an active investor, I use a suite of My Yahoo! modules to track my portfolio performance, monitor foreign currencies, and make informed financial decisions. Specifically, I’ve found it handy to set up my page like a financial dashboard, with Marketing Summary , Company News and Stock Portfolios grouped next to each other.

When the markets are in session, I periodically scan the dashboard from left to right, starting at the NASDAQ intraday chart and other key indices, followed by latest news about the stocks I hold. I end at my portfolios, looking for any significant price movements that may require my immediate attention. This often triggers me to look for related news, so I point my mouse over the news icon next to the stock symbol for more info. In addition, the Stock Portfolios module also allows me to track cash balances, money market funds, mutual funds, ETFs, currencies, options and futures, in all major exchanges worldwide.

For the international investors, merchants and travelers among us, the Currency Converter provides a quick and easy way to manage forex transactions. Tip: you can track the exchange rate to as many as 6 foreign currencies at the same time by putting the currency (e.g. USD) in both the top row and the leftmost column of the currency table. This is just one of the many ways to use this compact but powerful module.

Happy investing!

Jason

My Yahoo! Product Manager

Improved: Currency Converter

New improvements to the Currency Converter give you full control of the currency table. Now you can now select your preferred currency for any row or column. This gives you more flexibility to set up the table exactly how you like it.

To customize, simply click the down arrows in the header of each column or row, and select from more than 150 currencies and precious metals.

Try the new Currency Converter on your page.

Enjoy!

- Jason
My Yahoo! Product Manager

Company News is back.

The Company News module is back; now loaded with options that bring you breaking news in multiple views to keep you informed of what matters most to you.

Ticker View
This gives you full control of the companies you want to read about. Start with customizing the list of companies (Edit). Then read them all at once (Show All). Or for a sharper focus on your watch list, selectively expand individual tickers. Any time you want, you can expand a ticker with a single mouse click. And the number of headlines shown per company is, of course, your choice (Edit).

New Portfolio View
We’ve designed this for both portfolio investors and those who just want a new perspective. All news related to a portfolio’s ticker symbols are grouped and sorted in reverse chronological order. This makes scanning news about a large group of companies easy and can help you keep an eye on portfolios you are actively managing. The number of headlines displayed per portfolio is, again, up to you.

What I like most about the views is that you can flip back and forth between them by simply clicking on the Portfolio and Ticker tabs at the top of the module. Those with big portfolios may find “Show All” and “Hide All” helpful too.

Add Company News and let us know what you think.

Jason
My Yahoo! Product Manager