Market Info/Financial News Links

Follow the markets during the day...

Market Averages: From cnnfn. This page also has links to everything else on their site.
25 Most Active NYSE/ASE/NASDAQ Stocks: Updated continuously. From Yahoo! (you may have to register, but it's easy -- and free.)
Stock Quotes: Also from Yahoo!
Put/Call Ratio: The CBOE put/call ratio, updated every 30 minutes.
And A Call/Put Ratio: The International Securities Exchange call/put ratio. It uses only opening transactions by the public. (Click on "ISE Sentiment Index" in the lower left-hand corner of the picture.)
Breaking Business Stories: Up-to-the-minute business headlines from CBS MarketWatch.
Bloomberg's Top Financial News: The biggest financial stories of the day.
U. S. Treasury Prices/Yields: Also from Bloomberg; updated every five minutes.
Fidelity's Sector Fund NAV's: Daily net asset values -- including percentage changes and hourly price data -- for Fidelity's 41 sector funds.
ABC Business News: More business headlines, also updated around the clock, from Reuters and the Associated Press. This is a "raw" feed, so can be a little difficule to follow sometimes, but this site is a little bit quicker than the CBS MarketWatch site.

...after-hours...

NASDAQ 100 After Hours Indicator: The NASDAQ 100 index, calculated on after-hours trades. Updated (with a 15-minute delay) until 6:30 pm.
NASDAQ Most Actives: The ten most active stocks in NASDAQ after-hours trading. The page also has links that to the NYSE and Amex after-hours most actives lists.

...all through the night...

In the old days, it used to be hard to find financial data on the Internet after 6:00 or so. There's loads of it now, though, so the following links are not nearly as crucial as they used to be. (The best after 6:00 source of information? Bloomberg TV; it carries a live feed from Asia and has constantly-updated U. S. market data crawling across the bottom of the screen. Beats CNBC by miles...)

Globex Quotes: The S&P 500 futures contract, updated every 10 minutes. A preview of tomorrow's stock market...
Treasury Bond Quotes From The CBOT Evening Session: A preview of tomorrow's bond market...
U. S. Treasury Prices/Yields: From Bloomberg. Updated every five minutes -- around the clock.
Nikkei Quotes: From the Nikkei site itself. (In English.)
Reuters Business Wire (via CBS MarketWatch): Business and general news headlines, updated around the clock. (On that long-ago December evening when Greenspan made his now-famous "irrational exuberance" comment and the S&P futures tanked, this was the only wire I could find with the story.)
ABC Business News: More business headlines, also updated around the clock, from Reuters and the Associated Press. This is a "raw" feed, so can be a little difficule to follow sometimes, but this site is a little quicker than the CBS MarketWatch site.

Go To General News Headlines

...and in pre-market trading the next morning.

NASDAQ 100 Pre-Market Indicator: The NASDAQ 100 index, calculated on pre-market trades. Updated, live, from 8:15 until 9:30.
NASDAQ Most Actives: The ten most active stocks in NASDAQ pre-market trading. The page also has links that to the NYSE and Amex pre-market most actives lists.