Top 10 Stock & Finance Websites

In February 2009, Yahoo! Finance is the top-visited stock website, with 22.21 percent. MSN Money received the second-highest number of visits (7.32 percent), followed by CNN Money (7.16 percent), and Scottrade (5.48 percent).

Yahoo! Finance offers information including free stock quotes, up to date news, portfolio management resources, international market data, etc. MSN Money offers personal finance, investing and financial news. investment planning and advice, etc. CNN Money offers financial information including stock quotes, breaking news, analysis, before & after hours market data, research and earnings. Scottrade offers a wide range of investment vehicles and channels. Investment products offered include Traditional IRAs, Roth IRAs, SEP IRAs, SIMPLE IRAs, Stocks, OTC Stocks, Options, and so on.

Top 10 Stock Websites in 2009:

Rank, Web site
1 Yahoo! Finance
finance.yahoo.com
22.21%

2 MSN Money
moneycentral.msn.com
7.32%

3 CNN Money
money.cnn.com
7.16%

4 Scottrade
www.scottrade.com
5.48%

5 TD AMERITRADE
www.tdameritrade.com
4.40%

6 Fidelity Investments
www.fidelity.com
4.06%

7 Vanguard
www.vanguard.com
2.42%

8 Market Watch
www.marketwatch.com
2.26%

9 Kitco
www.kitco.com
2.25%

10 E*Financial
www.etrade.com
2.12%

Source: Hitwise

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