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Yahoo Finance has a rating of 1.53 stars from 91 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about Yahoo Finance most frequently mention message board problems. Yahoo Finance ranks 399th among Personal Finance sites.

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Positive reviews (last 12 months): 12.5%
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  • In the last month there have been so many problems with Yahoo Finance not working it has truly become a useless site.
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Top Positive Review

“Goes from best to worst”

William G.
6/10/23

Yahoo finance could be the most important way for millions of investors to do serious financial homework and share it but the actual people who run it are almost 100% incapable and have made it worthless. Nobody in investment works harder and is smarter than the millions of individual investors who are looking for ideas and are willing to share but Yahoo has installed automated software that makes it impossible to use the site for real important research.

Top Critical Review

“Stole money out of my account - refused refund”

Kodaah H.
12/16/23

Yahoo is a bunch of crooks. They told me I signed up for a subscription 2 months that I never signed up for then afterwards refused to cancel the service and even chastised me over the phone saying it's was my fault that I couldn't have my money back. I talked to two different customer service representatives and both of them dismissed me rudely and acted like I was at fault. I don't even have a Yahoo email. Poor customer service.

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Thumbnail of user kodaahh
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
December 16th, 2023

Yahoo is a bunch of crooks. They told me I signed up for a subscription 2 months that I never signed up for then afterwards refused to cancel the service and even chastised me over the phone saying it's was my fault that I couldn't have my money back. I talked to two different customer service representatives and both of them dismissed me rudely and acted like I was at fault. I don't even have a Yahoo email. Poor customer service.

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I didn't use any of there products.

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Thumbnail of user genemoody85
1 review
0 helpful votes
October 28th, 2023

I have found and verified several outright lies on the Yahoo Finance site with one regarding ME holdings being reported to the SEC.
These lies consist of events that never happened as well as referencing investors, financial writers and analysts that either don't exist or had their names used without their knowledge.
Yahoo Finance will print virtually anything if they are paid enough. I would have rated them at 0 if it were possible.

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Thumbnail of user howardm248
1 review
18 helpful votes
August 5th, 2021

For months, Yahoo Finance has been aiding and abetting corporate hedge funds and short sellers by unfairly manipulating its "Conversations" message board so that retail investors cannot see recent posts and deleting posts that are favorable to AMC stock. Yahoo Finance is a shill for Wall Street criminals. The "Newest Reactions" section shows comments from a month ago. Shameful.

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Thumbnail of user ayding7
1 review
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February 4th, 2024

Yahoo Finance is not objective. Most articles are written by Motley Fools staff. It looks like it is owned by Motley Fools

Thumbnail of user bringthelightabq
1 review
4 helpful votes
June 7th, 2023

Are the employees truly so narrow minded? Do they understand or even research companies? How in the world does Yahoo get away with such poor content. I can't wait to see this group of NPC characters get schooled by the outcome of Tesla. I have attempted to see things from the yahoo perspective...however I'm not flexible enough to get my head so far in the sand...(the other version may get this review removed for hate speech against the left!) Yahoo is full of yahoo's...don't trust these lefty woke folk...

Tip for consumers:
Yahoo is owned by Verizon. Verizon is a tech company and will censor.

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Thumbnail of user michaelk4762
2 reviews
4 helpful votes
May 9th, 2023

I can understand swearing but Yahoos finance talk forums go way beyond. I tried to download a business article from You Tube for the others on the chat forum and Yahoo for some reason would not allow me to publish it. This has now happened twice. There reasons are generic and not specific at all. You can't use specific words that aren't even inflamed. Why bother find another forum I'm sure there are others.

Thumbnail of user petem372
1 review
6 helpful votes
February 19th, 2023

Some posts on YMB are permitted and others are rejected. Depending on where your bias lies. Unfortunately nothing can or will be done about it. I no longer frequent the site as zero information is allowed to be shared between investors. It's become a cesspool of spam and a short sellers platform to spread disinformation.

Thumbnail of user genem243
4 reviews
14 helpful votes
December 9th, 2022

Be aware that Yahoo like all such sites, make their money selling advertising space. As such they are loath to turn away any client including those who are dishonest or misleading. I have noted several exaggerated claims, misrepresentations and outright fabrications in several of their paid sponsor articles.
As a result I now totally disregard these segments of Yahoo finance because I don't have time for the due diligence needed to trust them. They are at best in the "Ripley's Believe It Or Not" category.

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Thumbnail of user johnw7425
1 review
1 helpful vote
September 21st, 2023

In the last month there have been so many problems with Yahoo Finance not working it has truly become a useless site. Stock symbols don't take when you enter them and the whole page is nonresponsive most of the time. I have contacted Yahoo on at least 3 or 4 occasions but all they say is their engineers are working on it. It just can't be that difficult to fix. For many years it worked nearly flawlessly and now it SUCKS! I wonder f it is intentional to try to get people to pay for their enhanced service but there is no way anyone would want to pay for something that doesn't even work when it's free.

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Thumbnail of user mikealh2
1 review
2 helpful votes
March 10th, 2023

I can't wait for you criminals to get what's coming to you. Your journalism is bought and paid for by your masters. Zero real news comes from this criminal enterprise. Zero credibility. Zero accountability. You guys should be shut down immediately as your filling this world with bs.

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Thumbnail of user tuckers16
1 review
11 helpful votes
March 22nd, 2021

Yahoo Finance boards are policed relentlessly. They are OK with hate, lies and racism, but delete criticism of bigotry, corruption and fascism. It has only gotten worse over time.

Tip for consumers:
Find a better service.

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Thumbnail of user mollyw169
1 review
4 helpful votes
July 28th, 2022

Yahoo raised the subscription cost to an unreasonable level and I wished to cancel. I spent a lot of time on the phone with service reps who I could barely understand only to find that there are too many hurdles to cancellation. Even though my name matched my email address and both matched my credit card the yahoo rep refused to cancel unless I could answer their trick questions. They asked a number of questions which it was impossible for me to answer. One example was they asked how much my subscription cost before taxes, the credit card shows amount including taxes - there is no break down. Of course the Pinocchio agent script said the questions to "prove" identity was to "protect the customer" from a fraudulent cancellation- as if!
My options seem to be to pay what ever yahoo wants to charge for the rest of my life or to cancel the credit card that the subscription is billed to.

Tip for consumers:
DO NOT SUBSCRIBE TO YAHOO Services!

Thumbnail of user johnm11805
1 review
6 helpful votes
March 17th, 2023

The Yahoo-Finance Conversation Board lets you post your opinion as long as it agrees with their stock bets, otherwise your comments are put on hold for hours and flagged as "waiting for approval". IF it gets "approved" nobody will read it because there are too many new posts anyway, so they are sneaky in the way they bury and suppress your free speech. IF it doesn't gets "approved" they will just tell you that "you violated their policy". VERY SNEAKY. Yahoo-Finance is an active participant in the stock market and hence it has a financial interest in MANIPULATING the posted information in their "free" blogs/conversation panels. BE AWARE, before you use or trust anything written on YAHOO-FINANCE. PS. The app or website is also very primitive and full of bugs. As somebody put it before me, it is like they really try to suck.

Tip for consumers:
DO NOT TRUST WHAT'S PUBLISH IN YAHOO FINANCE.

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Thumbnail of user denisenayda2019
1 review
4 helpful votes
April 18th, 2023

Wow! I feel beyon ripped off. I tried the Yahoo Finance Premium 14 day trial and in the yahoo email search there was nothing there. In the Yahoo finance section I couldn't see where I could cancel and when I finally took it to my family member that was more saavy with finding hidden computer stuff, after some digging, they found where to manage subscriptions in an entirely different section. They DID NOT LET ME CANCEL UNTIL AFTER PAYING, 2 months had passed and I didn't use it.Crappy system and downright sneaky way to rip you off.

Tip for consumers:
Sneaky way to make you pay, free trial with no upfront asks about credit info and if you ever want to stop they ask for your card info and triple verification with codes "for your safety" what horse cr@p.

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Thumbnail of user abus48
1 review
6 helpful votes
October 12th, 2022

Today 10/12/2022 this morning before 9:00 am commentator I forgot his name the commentator who was commenting regarding Saudi Arabia's Oil output. He made a false and dumb comment that we went to war in the middle East to defend Saudi Arabia but the fact was that both of the war has nothing to do with Saudi Arabia.
But, the fact is that the Gulf War was to liberate Kuwait in 1990/91 and in 2003 Iraqi War to destroy Iraq's Weapons of mass destructions.
When some one is making a opinion on historical big war event he should be aware of that his listeners are knowledgeable not fools. Also there are in some occasions some commentators seems like they are detached from the reality.

Thumbnail of user markr2996
2 reviews
7 helpful votes
December 2nd, 2022

The platform is lost in a previous decade or two. Clunky would be a generous assessment.
If spam is the goal of the message board than they really hit the mark.
Post are more toxic than most of the spam.
Yahoo and yahoo finance need to just die already.

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Thumbnail of user matthewm1246
1 review
10 helpful votes
February 1st, 2021

Yahoo finance continues to allow scam ads. How is this possible. They must either shut down their ads if they are unable to control this or filter their ads. They should be financially liable for any losses as a result of their scam ads due to the the fact that they support this type of advertising as the adds are clearly on their platform

Thumbnail of user johnc6692
1 review
5 helpful votes
June 29th, 2021

Cant follow the discussion on AMC chat. Outdated and corrupted yahoo shills trying to help screw the retail investors by severing a line of communication. Tell me where do our constitutional freedoms matter if the people controlling our voice practice communist censorship?

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Thumbnail of user josephl1060
1 review
3 helpful votes
February 11th, 2021

AMC DEAD?
Stop Spreading fake news! If you are able to survive this whole time, then AMC will be just fine!

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Thumbnail of user carlmargon05
4 reviews
5 helpful votes
September 12th, 2022

I spoke with one of their staff and I found him very rude in attending my questions and needs, this place obviously needs a lot of improvement in handling customer

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Thumbnail of user richardb1243
3 reviews
4 helpful votes
November 14th, 2022

Desktop Yahoo Finance now a piece of trash. Best to fire all those responsible before they ruin the mobile App...

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Mobile App still working as before, the changes to the desktop version indicates some people should be fired!

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Thumbnail of user paulf811
2 reviews
21 helpful votes
December 27th, 2020

As an investor, they have a common of 200.00 to open an account but it does little this is the bait. You are then told that you will get much higher returns if you invest more. The sales pitch is relentless high pressure. They want your whole lifes saving and will promise you anything to get it. The only way they will give you back any money is if they believe you are going to invest more if they show a little trust and return some of your funds

Tip for consumers:
This is a sucker game run for your life

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investing in advertising campaigns money has been taken and they will not return it.

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Thumbnail of user raymonds823
1 review
5 helpful votes
November 25th, 2022

Yahoo message board to post on deletes post that have good meaning and caring posts. Yahoo messagevboard is run by Chinese communist people

Thumbnail of user kenl262
1 review
24 helpful votes
May 14th, 2020

The site and the app seem to work fine...
The scary part is what goes on in message boards.
Well most know to not put faith in these forums I can't help but observe, this is what I have concerns about.
The so called pumpers and shorts are actually the same, just depends on what way they want the stock to move.
Many post are deleted by the moderator if does not suite there view.
Seems possible that the pumper/shorts actually work for the site as they seem to have admin rights to the message board.
One cycle I have noticed recently is the common pumping of stocks prior to Earnings Report, then once the reports are public and the stock slides, the pumpers/shorts reset with different names/profiles.

All in all I understand why the message boards get a bad rap, seems their purpose is primarily to manipulate the stocks for the purpose financial gain.

Big surprise to most? Probably not lol not a bad place to find news or PR but that's the only positive for these forums that I can see.

Beware and as always do you own DD, lots of folks here eager to motivate you for their own purpose.

Thumbnail of user lees651
2 reviews
11 helpful votes
December 22nd, 2021

Yahoo finance is 90% owned by Apollo Global Management. They are a massive alternative asset management company that invest in credit, private equity and real-estate. They have over $328 billion invested in capital companies, hedge funds, non-performing loans and collateralized loan obligations.

One of the companies Apollo Global is short on is AMC Theaters. The majority of the publications on Yahoo Finance is negative against AMC because of this short position. They support and / or direct these negative articles from the likes of Motley Fool, Seeking Alpha, Inside Investors, etc for the sole purpose of driving down the stock price of AMC to lessen their loss and hopefully be able to cover they short bets.

This means that nothing on Yahoo Finance can be considered accurate. It is nothing more than a web site for stock manipulation by their owners and their affiliates. The retail investor cannot put their trust into any article displayed on Yahoo Finance. Yahoo Finance is compromised and should be ignored. Follow any of their recommendation at your own risk!

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