Comments on: Canadian Stocks in Google Finance

By: Canadian Capitalist

Canadian Capitalist — Fri, 26 May 2006 03:24:37 +0000

Matt: Thanks for pointing it out. I find it silly that yahoo.ca shows dividend information but yahoo.com shows N/A. C’mon Yahoo! Surely this can be fixed.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 24 May 2006 15:54:27 +0000

In the above post… I meant http://www.yahoo.ca

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 24 May 2006 15:50:29 +0000

Hey Oxcc…

If you want dividend information for those CDN Stocks (RY BMO BNS etc…) you can go to Yahoo’s CDN site http://www.yahoo.com and go to the Finance Page and type in RY and it shows the Dividend and Yield…

By: Brendan

Brendan — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 14:32:15 +0000

One of the features I like is that you can look at a price chart and there are links along the chart that you can click on to get info on the news event that occurred at that time. Lets you see what happened where you see sudden drops/climbs on a price chart.

By: Canadian Capitalist

Canadian Capitalist — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 03:14:34 +0000

TSE: XIU or TSX: XIU is not working. Looks like they have some bugs to iron out.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 23:54:50 +0000

Anyone know how to get an ETF like XIU? I tried tsx:xiu but it doesn’t work.

What about mutual funds?

BTW, how is yahoo’s support for Canadian mutual funds? Last time I checked they didn’t support them.

By: Canadian Capitalist

Canadian Capitalist — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 15:13:11 +0000

Tom: Good point. But you can bet that Yahoo! is trying to match all the new cool features (kinda like they matched the 1GB email box when GMail was announced).

James: Thanks for pointing it out. I didn’t try to set up a portfolio. And 10-year charts and dividend information would be nice. But Yahoo! only has 5-day charts for many securities, so Google is an improvement!

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 15:02:11 +0000

Do note the little tag indicating “beta”. They’re not finished yet.

Tom

By: James

James — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 14:58:03 +0000

I just tried to set up a portfolio and all I get is a “we will support international equities soon” warning.
What is the point of making Caniadian data available abut not allowing a simple portfolio to be set up with Canadian stocks.
I would think with all the bags of cash Google is taking in these days they could launch something that is reasonably set up to do things.
I’m also dissapointed that you can’t get data over five years old. I want ten year charts darn it!

By: 0xcc

0xcc — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 13:16:00 +0000

I just did a little more playing around with Google and it turns out you don’t need an account to look at things. I have to say I am pretty impressed and I really hope this gets Yahoo motivated to make some changes.

At a first glance I couldn’t find dividend information on any stocks, let alone Canadian stocks.