Posted by Casey Ho and Steven Soneff, Software Engineering Interns Our team is pleased to announce the release of a data API for Google Finance portfolios . This means that developers can build financial software that could give you easy access to your portfolios on your desktop, homepage, or mobile phone. If you know something about writing software and are interested in making this happen,

Posted by Nick Fey, Google Finance designer Being a British bloke I am particularly pleased to announce the launch of Google Finance in the UK ) http://finance.google.co.uk( . Now it's easier for us Brits to get our own European public and private company information as well as UK mutual fund data. In addition you can find GBP currency quotes on the home page, so we can feel smug about how much cheaper everything will be when we visit the U.S.

Posted by Patrick Coskren, Portfolio Software Engineer Portfolio cash support is one of the most requested features by our users. We listened: you can now add a cash balance to every portfolio you maintain. In the 'Add' section that appears on every portfolio page, you'll see a new 'Cash' tab where you can apply deposits and withdrawals to your cash holdings. Furthermore, your stock transactions - both existing and new - can be individually linked to your cash balance,

Posted by Matthew Simmons, Market Data Gnome We've just added support to Google Finance for Hong Kong Stock Exchange listings. In addition to news and descriptive data )which we already offer for these listings(, you'll now see intra-day data and pretty charts. You can search for companies by name using the search box. You can also search by ticker - for example, if you'd like to find the current price for stock in Hutchison Whampoa, you can search for it by name , as 0013.

Posted by Vivi Costache, Software Engineer A while ago we launched an iGoogle Finance tab with various gadgets. We received a ton of feedback from you, and one of the main questions was "why are there no fancy finance charts there"? It was a bit of a challenge to add those nice charts using iGoogle, so it took more time than we hoped. And now... the Google Finance Chart gadget is ready for you!

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 Nick Fey, Google Finance designer When we study how people make and gather notes when researching companies online, almost everyone tends to u se a word processor, a spreadsheet, or )sadly( s craps of paper . Whatever they use, there seems to be consensus that they're generally dissatisfied with the approach and tools they use. We have something you may be unaware of which could solve some of these same problems. It's called Google Notebook .

Posted by Nick Fey, Google Finance designer There are some great Finance gadgets available on iGoogle )personalized Google search page(, but it can be challenging to find the best Finance gadgets. Recently the iGoogle team have introduced the 'Share tab' feature which allows you to share a whole tab of gadgets. This has allowed us to pull together a collection of some of our favorite iGoogle gadgets and share them with you.

Posted by Matthew Simmons - Market Data Gnome Many of you have noticed that we had a gap in our NTDOY charts, as well as with some other ADRs. I've fixed NTDOY, and am working on fixing the others. Thanks for the heads up, and please do report data errors as this is the best way we can quickly detect and resolve them.

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.