MarketWatch - News & Data Reviews

I am using MarketWatch as a student for the virtual stock market game, so apologies if my review does not meet the standard of what others may use for MarketWatch.

Firstly even for using it for the stock market game, selecting it simply brings me to the internet version of the site, ironically the better option! With my main drive for even installing MarketWatch in the first place down the drain I will say simply navigating trough MarketWatch and using it as a regular was very..... very ok. It seemed to be unoptimized for iPhoneX and up which caused a few UI issues, but I looked away from those and relied strictly on content. MarketWatch just overall seems overtaken completely by the web client version and beyond, more or less just a show that you have MarketWatch . For recreational usage and “a regular experience” however... it manages to barley get the job done. Some strange user interface glitches and hassles at times, but delivers exactly what it shows; nothing more nothing less. An app that I would probably recommend to a curious individual or someone who needs it as a quicker alternative to the web version, but should not be overlooked from its difficulties. Long term usage should opt one to go web client rather than MarketWatch .

MarketWatch is awful - first off, you can’t get all the index pricing information that the desktop version has. Where’s the crypto tab? Secondly, the UX is awful - placing your finger on the screen for even an instant (to stop scrolling for example) is interpreted as a click on an article. Then guess what, you have to go back to your previous article and re-click the stupid “read more” button again. Same thing happens when you scroll left to right - the article or table you’re reading will interpret that as a full swipe, and you’ll be taken back to the homepage mid-article. I’m shocked the team hasn’t fixed this yet.

Finally, this isn’t about MarketWatch , but just your content in general - can you tell the content team to ax Moneyish asap? That is the worst set of articles ever...I mean, I get you’re trying to appeal to millennials (who, given the types of stuff you’re posting on there, must not understand a darn thing about finance), but maybe it’s time for them to read real market and stock related material for a change? You guys don’t have to dumb it down so much with these pseudo finance articles...the market is fun to read about as is. Thanks.

I have this app to track individual stocks and read business and economic news. When political news becomes economic news, it’s understandable that this app and similar financial news sites will report on it. I get it, we don’t live on a bubble. Unfortunately, for the past few weeks I’ve been getting more political news related to the election and the coronavirus than I have about the economy. I don’t need this app to tell me Dr. Birx rebukes Trump on some medical claim, especially if that claim has nothing to do with financials. Likewise, I don’t need to hear every day that coronavirus cases are rising. If news is related to the healthcare sector, that would make more sense, but I get the impression even some who run the this app app are trying to say, “Look, we don’t like Trump either, follow us for news.” Please just report on financials and truly breaking news, not Trumps rally’s and twitter fights.

I have always been content with this app. It’s not the best market resource there is, but it’s simple and easy to use. The main reason I use this app is to check my different watchlists. Well, for the past two weeks, watchlist doesn’t even work. I’ve logged in and logged out plenty of times on MarketWatch , every once in a while it will show my watchlist stocks again only for them to be gone again the next time I open MarketWatch . Yesterday I deleted this app and redownloaded it to try and solve the problem once and for all. It worked yesterday, but sure enough I open MarketWatch this morning and none of my stocks are displaying in any of my watchlists. Given that this is the majority of my use for this app, I have rated it 1 Star and will leave this rating until it is fixed. I will also be using Yahoo Finance instead, and may delete this app as it is now unnecessary space on my phone. If this is fixed I will probably amend this decision, but until then I have no use for this app.

I’ve been a long time this app viewer, but mostly from a computer. Recently using MarketWatch , I’ve come to dislike the navigation feel in terms of the scroll through and then stop. Once you put the finger down after a scroll, MarketWatch immediately thinks you’re trying to access the article rather than to stop the scroll. This is very frustrating because I don’t mean to read these articles, I just was curious about the headline.

Furthermore, the back navigation from an article needs work. The back arrow in the top left does not have good function. It takes a few tries to finally go back.

Due to these reasons, I cannot use MarketWatch for news. It takes too long to actually scroll through and read what I want because I’m constantly trying to take caution in how I scroll. The feel of MarketWatch doesn’t feel high quality unfortunately.

I was a loyal market watch user till about 5 months ago. MarketWatch has constant loading problems on the watchlist and often can’t even retrieve it. When it does come up it will not load any information or asks you to log in....when already logged in. This still does nothing to help. I have reached out to support who suggested I restart MarketWatch .....🤨. Since I tried that the first 2 seconds it didn’t work, we then tried clearing the data. This didn’t work either. Also tried reinstalling and no luck. The website isn’t much better either and often crashes on me. Overall this thing is a once great tool turned piece of garbage with 0 to negligible support. Oh and it took them over a week to get back to my first inquiry. I called and then was told someone will be with me soon. A week later I received an email that solved nothing. So if you’d like to invest and then play the “Hope nothing is wrong” game, go with market watch for tracking. 3/10, D+ app

From an individual who floats in the middle of politics MarketWatch while proving the stocks information for the most part also dabbles way too much into the political aspect. They show extreme bias towards conservatives and use terms like radical czar and other terms to make the republicans look bad but try to use the democrats as a positive platform even though the markets have been Fading under biden even the logical stocks that should go up under him are dropping yet they keep pushing like he is fixing things.

The whole point being MarketWatch should provide stock data not dabble in the whole cnn fox what’s real or fake news shenanigans.

Stick to the market and stop being bias. I recommend anyone who tried or does use this to switch to their stock ticker on the iPhone or any other app that isn’t politically bias and gives good information.

MarketWatch has all the ingredients to be something good: stock prices news analysis and more.

Unfortunately, they managed to foul up the train wreck: Half the news stories are celebrity gossip, not market news. It is difficult to browse headlines on MarketWatch, they feed you the stories they want you to see them only those stories. For every story that they do provide, it is buried in 40 or 50 Clickbait ads. Search results are very poor. It’s difficult to go back if you click on the wrong thing.

In short, I hate MarketWatch. It is frustrating to use for anything other than following one or two stocks or indexes.

MarketWatch is for young and adult professionals who know how life works, are moderately to heavily experienced in investing, and need business news quickly. The push notifications are the best. Would probably be dry to those who are highly-partisan, but they have tons of other options. Please keep doing what you do, this app! Resist the urge to “go left” like all other popular media publications. Has been one of my top investing-news apps other than IBD & StockTwits.

I really appreciate the expertise, honesty and accuracy of your writers! I check on you for a good breadth of knowledge on current market conditions. I use Seeking Aloha mostly for the traders comments. And also use CNBC for seeing about futures and daily gyrations on their easy to view charts. All three of these apps give me what I need to time buying and selling. I try to go long on nearly all that I purchase, but will sell to avoid going negative and too illiquid. Wish I had know how good you were when I first started investing 5 years ago!

Needs a section on earnings estimates revision trend for each year for individual stocks and the sp500 as well the earnings surprise history

Needs a section for each stock that lists links to all the latest developments for a stock or firm. Eg. Analyst revisions of eps or target prices or ratings, news, investor sentiment, analysts sentiment, institutional sales, volume traded at gain/volume traded at loss trend, open aggregate bid volume/open aggregate offer volume trend, avg open bid price/avg open ask price trend

I am writing to bring to your attention the fact that the Dow Jones publication this app blatantly and indiscriminately censors their users. I posted several comments that were clearly in line with their community guidelines and had them rejected indiscriminately. My comments were civil and factual, but apparently did not please their editorial staff. I immediately requested that they delete my account. I do not support the suppression of our freedoms of thought and expression in any way. I am bringing this to your attention because censorship on many social media platforms appears to be rampant and must be brought to the public’s attention if our hard-fought freedoms are to be preserved. Respectfully.

These guys amazingly post articles about price drops that haven’t even happened yet! This future telling skill would be excellent for learning lotto numbers in advance, but NOOOOOOO! this app only uses their magic future-telling skills when a hedge fund asks them to help them manipulate a stock and drive the price down by spreading fear about a fictional sell off before it even happens. You can change the publish dates and times on your articles all you want. We all saw them when they published, we can see the original dates and times and we won’t forget. Get your news somewhere else. These guys are sellouts.

When you open MarketWatch you can see stories but when you click on a story you get a red warning message that this story cannot be opened at this time try again later. It has happened multiple times over multiple days.

**I use a VPN on my iPhone and found if I shut it off MarketWatch works fine. I would say though it should work with a VPN as I often are connected to free Wi-Fi and it becomes a security risk to have phone exposed. I have found I don't use MarketWatch unless I am in trusted WiFi environment**

this app’s page is second to none. But you do consistently get business news with a slant. If the market goes down, it will consistently be reported as Trump’s fault. When it does go up it will never be reported to his credit, but rather spite of him. Once you understand that Trump never does anything good, you will begin to understand the market the way this app wants you to see it. A great page, but it is reporting with an agenda, and by this point in time only the totally blind are still drinking that kool-aid.

Hi guys

Last time I gave you 5 stars - this time only 3

I’m seeing that your writers are increasingly including their opinions and point of view in articles I want to understand and learn about. So now I have to research the author to form an informed opinion on their qualifications.

Can you just do a fact based article and an accompanying fact based article from the authors POV. Then let me choose which I want read. I am wasting time researching all these people I have no desire to know.

Flipboard lets me mute sites out of the feed ( really, who needs the reviews of one star meals in New Zealand). There are authors you have that are emoting and signaling in articles that seem to be nothing more than a POV attached to some random tweet

Really, give me an option where a neutered bot write the content

You can reduce the drama, signaling and advocacy in some of your content

Best Regards

It is quite simple to understand why people totally hate the media, and why it is their own fault. If the goal of MarketWatch is to give people the most up to date news on the January 6th commission and Donald Trump investigations (critical news that the public desperately needs to be notified about immediately) then they are totally nailing it. To the effect of literally providing WAY MORE notifications related to that then any news related to markets, commodities, crypto, etc. what so ever. Nobody is saying January 6th isn’t a big deal but we don't need a stock market app telling us about what they think white supremacy looks like. An absolute clown show.

I’ve been a fan for many years. It’s really frustrating that this app constantly asks me to pay to review articles. I’m a financial professional and find it ridiculous that this app has started this subscribe to view article predicament. Morningstar does not charge for articles or financial information. It’s disappointing MW has taken this approach. I think you should change your strategies. I also don’t like some of the extremely liberal opinions your editors write about In their articles. Most people in the financial world are conservative and please keep that in mind. Cheers!

Today Market Watch posted an article about the sudden plummet of GME —about 20 minutes before it even happened. Google it. Check out Reddit for. Screenshots and links to the article.

How could Market watch post an article of a drop from $348 to $172 before it even happened. Seems like Market Watch is in the tank for the Hedge Funds...not at alll concerned about the every-man-retail customer like you and me.
Oh, and btw, there was no reporting on the fact that GME climbed out of that massive dip into the green by the end of the day!
There seems to be a real lack of integrity at Market Watch. Beware of what you read on MW, they don’t have your best interest in mind.

My ETrade account links it’s financial news to MarketWatch and while it has some occasional informative pieces, for the most part the info is available elsewhere and of late, the ratio of political pieces with little to no financial content has become nearly 50/50. Consequently I’ve turned off notifications from MarketWatch and at some point will likely delete it. When a site develops a distinctly biased political viewpoint you wonder how unbiased their financial news is. They’d be better off if they just stuck to watching the “market.” Or change the name to PoliticalWatch.

I have just begun reading Market Watch News. I am very appreciative of all the wonderful retirement finance information. Political informations seems unbiased. How great to be able to access of the comings and goings of Netflix by the month! I continue to look forward to the availability of this reliable information! Thank you!!

MarketWatch really deserve better rating but I wanted to give it 3 stars just because of annoying rating pop up
I think that choosing may be later means that you want to do it later not on the next screen , I have been bombarded with this message more than 5 times during less than 10 min while using MarketWatch and I wanted to choose to postpone it since I wanted to give a really meaningful feedback once I use the application for a longer period of time

MarketWatch is great for the Dina aspects but the display covers the entire iPhone X screen. For example the menu button is superimposed over the clock in the upper left corner making it not clickable. Also when you select a date range in the detailed charts the drop-down works but you can’t select any other time frame except one day.

Overall I like MarketWatch but hoping this gets fixed in the next update.

MarketWatch was redesigned earlier in 2018 but I’ve been using it for a few years now, and the latest design is great, including the typography. It would be awesome if they allowed it to be read in landscape mode on mobile phones, otherwise clean and modern aesthetic presentation is good, and a nice compliment to the desktop version.

Good app for all the basics in one spot. Since I got the new iPhone, MarketWatch continually glitches forcing me to reset it. The watchlist section will randomly freeze and be unmovable til app is reset. The menu tab in the top left corner will sometimes get stuck in the notch area requiring me to turn my phone sideways to switch the view in order for the menu button to be usable. Would give 5 stars if they weren’t an issue and didn’t happen so often.

The iPhone X has been out for almost a year. The this app app uses the upper left ear for a menu control on the markets tab. This conflicts with the iOS search or back arrow. The result is that you can’t switch to different views ( futures, rates) on this page.
For some reason this doesn’t always happen, sometimes the menu select is lower than the search control - no idea why but - it seems like the people who wrote MarketWatch don’t use it or test it on the X

This site is dedicated to finances and financials. Most of the articles are themed that way and I do pick up valuable insights. So often however, the information is so laced with slanted political hatred, that it becomes difficult to filter. A macro-view was that a year-ago, nearly every article believed the market to be overpriced and that the US market would be harmed by the President. I still find I have to filter the site's info way too often.