Better Know a Content Source - Yahoo Finance Stock Quote Badges

This is the fifth in a 435-part series (give or take) on sources of syndicatable content for websites. Sites covered in this series offer tools to publish content from their site onto your own site.

Yahoo Stock Quotes

Yahoo has rolled out a new Yahoo Finance badge creator that allows website owners to easily syndicate stock quotes with charts and headline onto your website or blog.

Users simply choose the stock tickers they'd like to syndicate, choose their preferred combination of charts and news headlines, customize the size and color scheme, then paste the custom code into their site. Yahoo takes care of the rest. Here is an example for Apple Computer:
This could be a nice addition to sites reporting on specific companies. However, it may not be the best choice for one-time news reports. For example, reports on Yahoo's recent stock price drop are better illustrated alongside a snapshot of the relevant time period than a live graph, which would grow out of context after five days:

Where would you find Yahoo Finance badges useful?

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