2006-11-25 16:03:41 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Business & Finance ➔ Investing
The different websites use different providers for their stock data. Sometimes these data providers will pick up late, after market, trades instead of the true closing price.
2006-11-25 18:10:25 · answer #1 · answered by Steve 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yahoo sometimes doesn't jive with even its other numbers or with other sites. It's not the only site to do this. Barchart had BRKA dropping to $10,000 and the SP500 dropping 85% this month (when it actually rose that day to an all time high). Neither happened though. Between Barchart, Sharebuilder and Yahoo, I've seen my stocks go up on one site and the stocks be down on another site for the end of the day. This makes these sites totally unrelable for day trading (imagine trying to buy BRKA at $10,000 and come to find out it's $130,000 per share).
2006-11-26 00:38:34 · answer #2 · answered by gregory_dittman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋