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"However, some worry that this trend may harm individual and less-sophisticated investors who cannot access the blogs and websites as quickly as professionals.
by Hypharse 17y ago
"However, some worry that this trend may harm individual and less-sophisticated investors who cannot access the blogs and websites as quickly as professionals. Others worry that not everyone will get the information."
Putting the stuff on a public website with a simple url makes it HARDER for non-professionals to access? Someone clue me in to their reasoning as to why.
- wmf 17y agoMaybe these non-professionals are getting their information from portals that only show press releases and MSM stories.
- earle 17y agoWell that an the fact that if you're an analyst covering 100 stocks you now are responsible for monitoring 100 different sources!
- Supermighty 17y agoThey weren't responsible for monitoring 100 different sources before? There is still the same number of things for them to track. They just have to track them in a different place. I think it would be fun to see the SEC require a specific URL for the location of investment information. Or create a simple API to be followed.
- anigbrowl 17y agomarket opportunity
- jarek 17y agoYou can flip to Bloomberg in two years if you're good.
- philwelch 17y agoAlmost as funny was this line: "The statement posed a brief obstacle for the media, analysts and others hungry for Google’s numbers." Yes, a hyperlink is a "brief obstacle". You'd have thought financial analysts would have learned how to use a computer by 2010.
- anigbrowl 17y agoThis statement was made by a PR dissemination company who's now facing the prospect of losing business.