Posted by Matthew Simmons, Market Data Gnome We're happy to let you know we're now able to offer pricing data for Borsa Italiana listings. In addition to news and descriptive data )which we already offer for these listings(, you'll now see intra-day market data and charts. You can search for companies by name using the search box, or you can search by ticker. For example, if you'd like to find the current price for stock in Alitalia, you can search for it by name ,

Posted by Gundy, Google Finance engineer Today, we're excited to release a Google Finance tab on iGoogle. This tab is a dashboard of financial gadgets which enables you to add, customize and share your Google Finance experience. But here's what's extra cool about these gadgets - they now have communication skills and can "talk" or "sync" with each other. As part of this release, we're introducing a bunch of new gadgets,

Posted Matthew Simmons, Market Data Gnome We're pleased to announce the availability of pricing data for Australian )ASX( and New Zealand )NZX( listings on Google Finance . We've always had descriptive data and news for these listings - now we have all that plus intra-day market data and pretty charts. You can search for companies by name using the search box. Alternatively, you can search by ticker. For example,

Posted by Russell Leidich, Google Finance 20% Engineer You may have heard the idiom "green with envy". It refers to a strong feeling of desire to experience the same good fortune experienced by someone else. I must admit: that's exactly how I feel with respect to what I call the "Green Stock Boom". And what better time to examine green energy investments, than today, Blog Action Day ? It's starting to feel a lot like 1999 in this industry,

Posted by Matthew Simmons, Market Data Gnome What's hot in the world of finance? At least one correct answer must be "China". Over the past several years, the world has seen the economy of this enormous nation grow at a breakneck clip. The local stock markets have followed, showing unparalleled growth in value within the global market. In some Chinese circles,

Posted by Andrey Khorlin, Google Finance 20% Engineer We've gotten a lot of great feedback and suggestions on how to improve our charts. In response, today we're unveiling an updated UI as well as some new tools. The new chart UI makes it easier to compare stocks, indices and even mutual funds. In the "compare" tab, we provide some suggestions on what you might like to compare a stock with, such as industry competitors or general market indices.

Posted by Katie Jacobs Stanton, Group Product Manager One of our favorite testers for Google Finance features is also a member of a fantastic local singing group, The Richter Scales , in San Francisco. They put the following video and song together to help us all take the edge out of the subprime meltdown. Enjoy!

Posted by Marianne Berkovich, User Experience Researcher, Google Finance I've recently joined the Google Finance team as a user experience researcher. My role is to observe, talk with, and otherwise hang out with people using Google Finance. Simply put, we want to learn how you use the site and how we can improve it. Your comments on this blog and through the Help Center are great sources of feedback; our research activities are another way you can share your thoughts with us.

Posted by Matthew Simmons, Market Data Gnome We now have historical daily prices for LSE stocks )like Vodafone or British Airways ( back to 1996. You'll note that splits have been imported, but dividends have not. Dividends will follow along shortly. If you notice any problems, please let us know .

Posted by Ben Softness, Google Finance Support Lead As part of our continuing effort to provide quick and easily accessible answers to your concerns and questions about Google Finance, we recently launched our brand new online help center. You can find the help center by clicking "About Google Finance" at the bottom of any Google Finance page or by pointing your browser to http://www.google.com/support/finance.

Posted by Dion Loy, Google Finance engineer Today we're pulling the wraps off Google Finance Canada , a localized version of Google Finance tailored for Canadian investors. One of our top requests has been for localized market information, presented of course in a useful and accessible format. We think Google Finance Canada addresses this by presenting top news and company news from Canadian sources, economic data from the Bank of Canada, multi-currency portfolios,

Posted by Dave Marmaros, Technical Lead, Google Calendar Want to know how your favorite stock is doing each day? Now you can! Google Calendar and Google Finance have teamed up to provide daily stock quotes. Try searching for your favorite stock symbol in Calendar: You will then be able to able to see the close price as an event each day.

Posted by Katie Jacobs Stanton, Group Product Manager, Google Finance First things first: thanks to all of you who posted so many great comments. We've enjoyed reading them and are excited to try this Q&A thing out. So now to the good stuff: Internationalization. There are a lot of suggestions to add quotes from various international markets including Australia and India.

Posted by Katie Jacobs Stanton, Group Product Manager, Google Finance A core tenet of Google is to "focus on the user and all else will follow." The Google Finance team shares this view and as such, we spend a lot of time conducting user research, meeting with power and novice users of online finance, and reading your emails and comments to this blog. This week, we wanted to try a new idea, which is to set aside a period of time to have an interactive Q&A session on this blog.

Posted by Nick Fey, Google Finance Designer Almost every stock investor that we talk to during our user visits makes use of a spreadsheet to compile the data they have researched and many use their own formula to help decide when it is optimal to trade a stock. Whether they use Excel or a napkin, vast numbers of investors spend time every day keying in or writing down data.

Posted by Ayla Tiago De Melo, Moderator, Google Finance Team When Google Finance launched last year, we created discussion groups, a forum where posters could have quality, on-topic, spam-free discussions about their favorite stocks and companies, and where the exchanges remain cordial and informative. If you're interested in participating, please review our community guidelines . In addition to these rules, we have a small team of moderators, including me,

Posted by Russell Leidich, Google Finance 20% Engineer Everyone knows that business cycles oscillate from boom to bust every so many years, and real estate is not unique in this regard. Stock prices reflect these trends. Anyone who has looked at a home builder stock in the past couple years is intimately aware of this connection. But what does it mean to say that an industry, as opposed to a stock, is experiencing a downturn?

Posted by Casey Ho, Engineering Intern, Google Finance If you like to customize your iGoogle page , you'll love these two new gadgets. The interactive chart and sector summary gadgets reflect two of our most popular features on Google Finance. We're pleased to now offer them on iGoogle. Click on the screenshots below to read more about the gadgets and to add them to your page: There'll be more finance gadgets to come. Meanwhile,

Posted by Nick Fey, Designer, Google Finance It's easy to access Google Finance even when you are away from your computer. Even using the most basic mobile phone, you can receive stock quotes simply by sending a text message containing a ticker to GOOGLE )466453(. )Note that quotes are delayed at least 15 minutes.( If you have web browsing enabled on your phone, go to http://www.google.com/m . And if you want easy access to stock quotes,