Financial News Apps for IOS iPhone

By Randy Meyer, 12 March, 2015

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iOS and iPadOS

I am trying to help another blind person find financial news apps. They were in the financial industry before they lost their sight and would like to keep up on financial news and the markets. Any suggestions would be welcomed.

Thank you for your help.

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By Maria Kristic on Tuesday, March 24, 2015 - 21:33

Apps which I have found to be useful include:

1. Yahoo Finance: does a nice job of consolidating financial news from various sources
2. Bloomberg Business
3. MarketWatch
4. Morningstar
5. NFBnewsline: if in US, can be used to access Financial Times, Economist, Wall Street Journal current issues in real-time

While some quirks exist in some of these apps (i.e., Back control in Morningstar is an unlabeled link, menu button in Bloomberg is labeled as "hamburger" by VO), they are accessible. For sites with more inaccessible apps or lack of them, visit the sites in Safari (i.e., Motley Fool, Seeking Alpha, sites relating to more specific sub-sectors in the industry of interest such as FinAlternatives for news on products in the alternatives space such as hedge funds).

Hope it helps!

By Chris Hill on Tuesday, March 24, 2015 - 21:33

Along with all of those, the cnbc app works fairly well. Only thing I've found is that there is a thing you have to close at the top of every story you want to read. I guess it is an ad or something.