To our readers: New Money features for you

ByABC News
December 15, 2008, 5:48 AM

— -- You may have noticed some changes to your USATODAY.com financial pages. To help you better track your investments and make investment decisions in these uncertain times, USATODAY.com has added a number of new or improved features. They include:

Year-to-date returns for stocks, mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). These can be found by entering the name or ticker symbol in any Get a Quote box and going to the appropriate quote or snapshot page.

New screening tools to help you sort and select potential investments stocks mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). We have added an ETF screener and an improved mutual fund screener to our existing stock screener. All three are now available in one place, if you select the Stock/Fund/ETF Screener from the pulldown menus under the Markets or Personal Finance links at the top of the Money Front page.

Improved ETF snapshot pages, which tell you much more than the price of the ETF. The data now include performance information for more time periods, sector allocation for stocks the ETF owns, top holdings, risk measures, news headlines and charting.

An improved ticker symbol lookup in our Get a Quote boxes that shows possible matches as you type.

A historical quote lookup that will let you find the open, high, low and closing price of a stock (and shortly ETFs) for any trading day. This can be found in the green tab at the top of our stock quote pages, which you access via the Get a Quote box.

Wikinvest charts and analysis on our stock quote pages. Wikinvest is a community of investors that provides additional perspective on companies and stocks from registered members. Our readers can join the Wikinvest community and contribute to the analysis and opinion that is part of the Wikinvest content.

We hope you find the new features useful.