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Off-topic: Why do these kind of websites always have a stock price next to brand names? Is this useful Information? It looks a little bit scammy.

by 3rd3 12y ago

penprog 12y ago
This website is the website for the Wall Street Journal. Wall Street is pretty much used to describe the financial markets of the US as a whole. If you are reading an article about finance it's useful for the reader to have instant access to the stock price information. How anyone would find this to seem scammy I wouldn't understand.
anthony_franco 12y ago
Many times the articles reference some new, meaningful information about the respective company and seeing the change in stock price adds merit to the story.
- SapphireSun 12y ago
  I don't know. Usually when I see this UI widget I think "correlation and causation" over and over. It's the rare story that definitively causes or reports on other news that causes a significant change in price. In a prestigious newspaper, showing the price inline with the article devalues the content. It emphasizes the "what's in it for me" angle rather than speaking to considered learning. If I were the designer, I'd rather include those metrics at the end of the article with more context and graphs (though I have a feeling this was carefully A/B tested). What's more is that even a few hours to a few days after a story is released, the stock price no longer has any relevance to the story since the widgets are not pegged to that point in time.
danso 12y ago
"these kind"? You mean news sources with a focus on the financial? (a few financial blogs do the same thing too). It's an automated parsing script(either client or server side). For mentioned companies that are publicly traded and named in a story, the script looks up their stock listing and adds it and a hyperlink to the story for context. In most cases, though, it's not very helpful. But easier just to have the script run on every story than to do the linking by hand for a few stories.
dkokelley 12y ago
Often if a company is mentioned in an article (particularly the WSJ), the article is directly related to stock performance. Stock often trades on news, so it's relevant information to know what the impact of the news is on the stock price of the company in question.

Off-topic: Why do these kind of websites always have a stock price next to brand names? Is this useful Information? It looks a little bit scammy.

by 3rd3 12y ago

Off-topic: Why do these kind of websites always have a stock price next to brand names? Is this useful Information? It looks a little bit scammy.

penprog 12y ago

This website is the website for the Wall Street Journal. Wall Street is pretty much used to describe the financial markets of the US as a whole. If you are reading an article about finance it's useful for the reader to have instant access to the stock price information. How anyone would find this to seem scammy I wouldn't understand.

anthony_franco 12y ago

Many times the articles reference some new, meaningful information about the respective company and seeing the change in stock price adds merit to the story.

SapphireSun 12y ago
I don't know. Usually when I see this UI widget I think "correlation and causation" over and over. It's the rare story that definitively causes or reports on other news that causes a significant change in price. In a prestigious newspaper, showing the price inline with the article devalues the content. It emphasizes the "what's in it for me" angle rather than speaking to considered learning. If I were the designer, I'd rather include those metrics at the end of the article with more context and graphs (though I have a feeling this was carefully A/B tested). What's more is that even a few hours to a few days after a story is released, the stock price no longer has any relevance to the story since the widgets are not pegged to that point in time.

danso 12y ago

"these kind"? You mean news sources with a focus on the financial? (a few financial blogs do the same thing too). It's an automated parsing script(either client or server side). For mentioned companies that are publicly traded and named in a story, the script looks up their stock listing and adds it and a hyperlink to the story for context. In most cases, though, it's not very helpful. But easier just to have the script run on every story than to do the linking by hand for a few stories.

dkokelley 12y ago

Often if a company is mentioned in an article (particularly the WSJ), the article is directly related to stock performance. Stock often trades on news, so it's relevant information to know what the impact of the news is on the stock price of the company in question.