MarketWatch - News & Data 4+

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!

This app 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 the app, 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 MarketWatch to track individual stocks and read business and economic news. When political news becomes economic news, it’s understandable that MarketWatch 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 MarketWatch 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 MarketWatch 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.