Without being smart I'll give you some examples.
On 1/16/98. Dow Jones reported at 12:31 p.m. a StrongBuy upgrade by Volpe Brown on a stock I'm accumulating, CKFR. I jumped on the thing because I wanted more. Volume surged the remainder of the day.
Yahoo! reports the same upgrade after market close.
It wasn't so much the Upgrade....that got me to jump. But it was the fact that it was the second Strong Buy in 4 days coming into earnings. Yahoo! never reported the first one by JC Bradford on the 12th. Dow Jones.....is pretty good at pumping out the news vs. a Yahoo! that offers a free service.
Yahoo! is great I use it too.....but sometimes it's nice to know what's going to hit the News on Yahoo! before the rest of you guys.
It also organizes the News into the Chart on a daily basis, so you can see what news events have done to the stock. Kinda neat actually to get both in the same view. Because you can look at the stock technically and fundamentally at the same time.
Yahoo thru Zacks gives you a score card on the Analysts. 2 Buy, 2 Hold, 1 Sell. As you begin to download thru investorinsight, those analysts recs are retained locally in your news archive. So if you want to see which analysts is saying what, you can go back and easily see what was said .
There a a number of other features, not found in Yahoo!. I enjoy the speed of local access to data vs. waiting for it on the web. You can crunch a bunch of information in short order on or off line at pentium speed. I run the thing in a window, as I track stocks thru Yahoo!
In Craigs' case if he were interested in Y2K stuff, He could simply add 4 or 5 in that segment. Download 5 years of chart data, recent news, ect. and give them a good look over in short order. |
