Mobile Apps for Stock Trading and Investment News - iPhone & iPad

So many free applications in the Apple iTunes store for iPhone and iPad that cover stock trading and investment news, makes picking the best hard. If you include general business and market information as well as the ability to upload stock symbols and receive updates direct through the phone the number starts to get a little smaller.

The following apps such as Bloomberg, Yahoo finance, Morning Star and many others provide the user access to the right business information to track the stock market throughout the day and be informed of events that are occurring helping you manage your stock component of your personal finances. Even if you just need to stay in tune with a specific industry or want to be informed about the current business climate whether you are an active investor or not, using these apps will help you stay abreast of current world events and financial news. The best thing about the following list of financial iPhone apps is that they are free.

The Yahoo Finance application for iPhone and iPad is a well rounded financial app for individuals that want to stay up to speed with the stock market and current business news.  The application provides all of the most important charts and analysis as well as links to articles about specific companies that you may be tracking.  Log in to your Yahoo account and upload your portfolio to provide real time information directly to your phone through the yahoo finance app.  If you are already using the Yahoo finance tool through your computer than this is a natural fit and you will enjoy using the app.  Yahoo's article database for research is pretty good, the categories that are provided under the research tab include, News (general business news from around the world), My Yahoo Portfoilio (if you have loaded in a portfolio with stocks you own it will push specific interesting articles directly to you), Markets, Industries, Currencies, Commodities, and Treasury Bonds.  Each of these areas continues to drill down to provide individuals that are actively trading sticks the information needed to make a sound decision on purchasing shares of a company or deciding that the business climate is encouraging you to buy or sell based on world events.

The Bloomberg iPhone app is a great asset for any business person that wants to stay up to speed with the current business environment.  The Bloomberg app has an excellent portfolio tracker that if you keep up to date when making trades will provide you with several additional layers of information about your current portfolio of companies.  The app is best though when it comes to providing critical business worthy news articles about all different topics, industries, and countries around the world.  If there is a story that is currently impacting the way investors are buying or selling the Bloomberg app will have a story about the events and current opinions about how it will impact the financial markets.  This free business news app provides the easiest to read quick snapshot of what is going on in the financial markets around the world.  You can quickly scan the headlines and find the articles that are most relevant to your interests and at the same learn a lot about the markets in general.  When installing the Bloomberg news app for the first time select the categories that are most interesting to you and then be fed those news articles directly into your headlines section area or you can download audio news clips and get podcasts of the news fed directly to your iPhone.

The App Stock Tweets producing a stream of twitter tweets about stock trading and investments. This is an excellent way at following the fast moving trends around day trading stocks and other financial products. See what other articles people are reading to understand new stocks or companies that are currently recovering and poised for growth. Rather than having to follow lots of different individuals to get a good sense of the twitter sentiment about the market and what companies you might want to look into, you can leverage the Stock Tweets app to scan current tweets.

I find this app as a cool way to find out the names of random stocks that might pique your interest cause they are in an industry you like or some other reason, but for no other reason would you have known about them than just seeing the ticker symbol pop up in a tweet.  Always do your own research but you can find out about a lot of interesting opportunities by monitoring twitter activity concerning stock trading.

The Morning Star app provides iPhone users a slice of the member services available to people that can log in.  The information provided through Morning Star is more analytical in nature and focused on the more sophisticated investor however looking through the app is still very beneficial to you the average investor looking to be improve their knowledge of stock market and how to invest wisely.

The iBankCoin app provides a list of interesting topics that are currently in the media covering business stories. There is the ability to comment on articles to engage in conversation easily through your app with others interested in these topics. There are several different channels of articles that you can swipe with your finger to the side to access more articles from different authors covering different industries and geographic areas. Find interesting articles to awesome chart analysis to find the content that you are looking for from the iBankCoin iPhone business news app.