I've been catching bits and pieces of various sources claiming free real time quotes. Someone mentioned it a couple of weeks ago, but I couldn't find it. I received a message on Monday that MSN MoneyCentral was now offering them throughout the day. I can barely be arsed to load a website to get real time quotes. Typing in ticker symbols manually … so 1990esque. But today I noticed that my trusty Google sidebar contained a nice little bonus (see red circle in image below).

 

Now last week Nasdaq data was not delayed, but NYSE data was still delayed 20 minutes. I now noticed that this is no longer the case. This wasn't making or breaking my trading, but it sure is convenient not to have to load Trader Workstation every time I want a real time quote.

 

Not too long ago, I was complaining of Google Finance, but kudos on this. It's certainly a nice little bit they've added. Credit where credit is due.