#5 The Wall Street Journal expanded its editorial coverage to better compete against the New York Times while WSJ.com gets a darker look just in time for the economic downturn. Meanwhile, a new glossy magazine offers lifestyle articles for those who are still employed on Wall Street.
#4 BATS Trading started offering free real-time market data through CNBC, Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, Google Finance and Quote.com. However, Nasdaq and NYSE would counter that the data is drawn from trades that represent less than 10% of the total dollar volume of traded securities.
#3 News aggregators and citizen journalism stumbled after two separate business stories triggered panic selling. Google News inadvertently retrieved a 2002 headline about a United Airlines bankruptcy and displayed it as a new Sun-Sentinel.com story. An anonymous post about the supposed hospitalization of Steve Jobs sent shares of Apple into a tailspin.
#2 It seemed like Forbes.com was rolling out new features every month. However, the one thing that the financial website still hasn't done is to offer better-looking stock charts.
#1 Without any major innovations or new features, Yahoo Finance started and ended the year as the number one financial portal.
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