With the advent of the internet, online banking services and brokerage houses are becoming more common. Not only can one obtain news and investment information on the web, it is even possible to buy stock and follow your portfolio from the comfort of your home.
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Portals such as Lycos.com and MSN.com (prepend 'www.') feature customizable portfolio tracking, which allows delayed updates on stock prices throughout the day, and real-time stock prices are available from other sources. Company news as well as graphs with user-selectable time frames and comparison with other stocks are among the services offered online.
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If you have a colour printer, colour graphs showing recent trends can be printed out for a number of stocks at onces. Even more impressive, Bloomberg hosts live colour video coverage of the stock exchange as well as after hours commentary viewable by use of RealPlayer or Windows Media Player. Video viewing on the web requires Windows 3.1 or later.
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