BBC Market Data Ditched

[rossub]

This was my go to a couple of times a day just to see everything at a glance - major share indexes, currencies, commodities prices. So it’s bloody annoying.

Something similar out there with just the basic data summaries?

[alangla]

Bloomberg do free, delayed, data for all the markets, though it does seem to try hard to push its £1.99/month subscription to you https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/UKX:IND?embedded-c...

[Snozzer]

Just use the Stocks app on an iPhone

[trickywoo]

It’s a joke they have dropped the page on cost saving grounds. It should only cost relative pennies.

That being said the same info is available from loads of other places albeit I’m not sure on a UK centric single page summary of the same major markets the bbc one showed.

[AllyM]

FT has good markets data page.

[BobToc]

If you’re tracking stuff in Excel then Microsoft do a very handy direct link to the share price. I imagine Google do something similar with Sheets.

Yahoo Finance is my go-to app on the phone.

[rossub]

AllyM said:

FT has good markets data page.

That’s ideal if the summary page remains free!

[rossub]

BobToc said:

If you’re tracking stuff in Excel then Microsoft do a very handy direct link to the share price. I imagine Google do something similar with Sheets.

Yahoo Finance is my go-to app on the phone.

For me it’s just part of my news reading to stay on top of what everything is doing. Nothing more than that really.

[Jawls]

rossub said:

This was my go to a couple of times a day just to see everything at a glance - major share indexes, currencies, commodities prices. So it’s bloody annoying.

Something similar out there with just the basic data summaries?

Pathetic penny pinching, though frankly the BBC’s business and finance reporting is terrible.

[Mazinbrum]

Anyone use Morningstar? Their fund data has been screwed for about a week, don’t know what’s going on there.

[gca117]

Believe it was Morningstar that supplied the BBC data.

[AC43]

Jawls said:

rossub said:

This was my go to a couple of times a day just to see everything at a glance - major share indexes, currencies, commodities prices. So it’s bloody annoying.

Something similar out there with just the basic data summaries?

Pathetic penny pinching, though frankly the BBC’s business and finance reporting is terrible.

It nosedived as soon as they moved it out of London. Who'd have thought that might happen?

[colin79666]

Google.

https://www.google.com/finance/?hl=en

[Happy Jim]

Apple have the “stocks” app built in (Yahoo behind it) - nice and simple “at a glance” layout.

[VR99]

colin79666 said:

Google.

https://www.google.com/finance/?hl=en

This is what I use instead as allows you to add shares/ETF's to your 'portfolio' for free.....though I was surprised regarding BBC decision...and unsurprised at same time

[KPHs]

alangla said:

Bloomberg do free, delayed, data for all the markets, though it does seem to try hard to push its £1.99/month subscription to you https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/UKX:IND?embedded-c...

My main source of news and done very well from it. I get it free on the TV but have taken out prescriptions before. Cancelation is very easy.


For share monitoring I use https://uk.investing.com/equities/nvidia-corp

[Mazinbrum]

Happy Jim said:

Apple have the “stocks” app built in (Yahoo behind it) - nice and simple “at a glance” layout.

First time I tried it.

[vindaloo79]

I quite like having Ig.com open in a tab and have multiple watch lists on there.

I have used it for years, but find that I make less money spreadbetting than I do on other platforms. Which is a shame as it’s tax free. So use it’s facilities in background but trade mostly elsewhere.

I use the alerts from that to give me a nudge to pay attention to stocks that I’m interested in as they are quick and easy to setup.

[Imasurv]

I’ve just set up the Apple stocks app on my iPhone, making up a watchlist of the main indexes and stocks and actually prefer it to what the BBC website showed which we’ve now lost (and I was pretty annoyed when I realised it had been discontinued)….

[DaveH23]

I use my stocks portfolio on both Android and Apple.

Completely free, can create and manage your own portfolios within and see there value with charts, news stories and real time prices.