As of right now, I can find out a lot of information about a company by paying for the data from a data provider like Bloomberg or Reuters. This data, however, should be free and well-organized.
I would like to build a search engine that indexes and organizes regulatory filings, investment message board posts, investment blog posts, the portion of a company's website dealing with investment relations, and economic news.
You input the company's trading symbol to bring up all the relevant information about the company. Furthermore, there should be an API so that people can use the index in their own applications. I have no idea where revenue would come from.
Have you ever used Bloomberg or Reuters? Google/Yahoo Finance are far from useful for anything but an overview of a company. The service I am talking about would be aimed at more professional users.
Yes, I have used Bloomberg quite a lot, although I spent most of my time with its painful API. I just wanted to get your perspective on what Bloom feature you'd like to see in a web site/search engine.
Well, to start, if I could get correlation data from Yahoo/Google Finance that would be a great. In addition to that, if I could get my hands easily on data concerning pending lawsuits, better industry data, and better regression tools (though this may tie in with the correlation data requested above), that would also be wonderful. Those are just a few key things that would be nice for equity. Also, the data concerning anything outside of equities is severely lacking in Yahoo/Google Finance.
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As of right now, I can find out a lot of information about a company by paying for the data from a data provider like Bloomberg or Reuters. This data, however, should be free and well-organized.
I would like to build a search engine that indexes and organizes regulatory filings, investment message board posts, investment blog posts, the portion of a company's website dealing with investment relations, and economic news.
You input the company's trading symbol to bring up all the relevant information about the company. Furthermore, there should be an API so that people can use the index in their own applications. I have no idea where revenue would come from.
Why is something like Google/Yahoo Finance not good enough? Apart from 10-K and 10-Q's?
Have you ever used Bloomberg or Reuters? Google/Yahoo Finance are far from useful for anything but an overview of a company. The service I am talking about would be aimed at more professional users.
Yes, I have used Bloomberg quite a lot, although I spent most of my time with its painful API. I just wanted to get your perspective on what Bloom feature you'd like to see in a web site/search engine.
Well, to start, if I could get correlation data from Yahoo/Google Finance that would be a great. In addition to that, if I could get my hands easily on data concerning pending lawsuits, better industry data, and better regression tools (though this may tie in with the correlation data requested above), that would also be wonderful. Those are just a few key things that would be nice for equity. Also, the data concerning anything outside of equities is severely lacking in Yahoo/Google Finance.