MarketWatch vs. Bloomberg websites

Kristina Zucchi compares for the Investopedia website the MarketWatch and Bloomberg websites in terms of markets coverage.

Zucchi writes, “Unlike MarketWatch, Bloomberg has both a free public site and a pay subscription site for professionals. In this article we focus on the public site. Bloomberg tends to have a more targeted focus on the markets than MarketWatch, with more details on specific sectors.  For example, it has a direct tab into tech investing that covers everything related to technology investing, from deals to specific global insights. This content most likely is born from the advantage it has from the Bloomberg L.P. media empires for original content and news.

“The Bloomberg home page contains overall market commentary which can be further broken down by geography. It also dives deeper into sectors, featuring heat maps of sectors including advancers/decliners.

“Bloomberg offers news stories broken down by geography, industry, markets, and other news of interest. Because it is such a tremendous compilation, Bloomberg offers the Quick webpage tab. It boils all the news down into a more targeted offering under different headings, listed on the left side of the page. The Markets tab covers stocks, currencies, commodities, rates and bonds, and each is further broken down into geographies. The Personal Finance tab is similar to MarketWatch’s personal finance section.”

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