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Search & Explore

One search pill finds any stock or ETF Yahoo Finance covers, from every tab. The Explore tab adds side-by-side comparison tables — the market's largest and most active names, and your own watchlist.

The asset finder

The compact pill at the topbar's right edge (next to ⚙ Settings) works on every tab. It grows when focused, and pins itself to the window's top-right when you scroll down, so search stays reachable at any depth.

• To look something up, type a name or ticker — anything on any exchange Yahoo covers (US, Xetra, LSE, Euronext, …).
• To search by idea, wrap a prompt in quotes: "ai stocks" ✨. The assistant proposes matching tickers market-wide (the closing quote is optional — just press Enter). Needs the assistant connected.
• Focus it empty and it opens with your 7 largest positions — the assets you most likely want are one click away before you type.

Every result is shown in portfolio context: a watchlist star left of the ticker (the same favourites the Explore tables use — star or unstar right from the list), an In-portfolio badge with the quantity and value you hold (portfolio weight on hover) — or its exchange when you don't hold it — plus the last week's absolute and % move, color-coded, with a one-week price spark.

Clicking a result opens its detail panel — the full position drawer for a holding, the market drawer for anything else — and resets the finder. Clicking anywhere outside dismisses the list and shrinks the pill (your query is kept, so focusing again restores the same search). With a detail panel open, the frosted results panel floats on top and stays searchable, so you can hop between assets without closing anything.

The Macro card

At the top of the Explore tab — the market's weather above the market's tables. It has three parts, each loading independently the moment its data arrives (values show a small spinner until then):

• The regime strip — the dials professionals glance at first: VIX with its percentile over the last year, the high-yield credit spread, the 10-year inflation breakeven and the dollar index, plus the money pair: US M2 (the broad money supply, in $tn with its year-over-year growth — a monthly series) and the Fed balance sheet (total assets, weekly — rising means the Fed is adding liquidity, falling means it is draining it). Each dial has a plain-language ⓘ explainer; the money tiles date their observation in it, since those series publish with a lag. A series without data simply doesn't render.
• The Treasury-spread chart, on the same row — long minus short US government yields, with inverted (negative) stretches shaded: the classic recession signal. Hover it for the exact date and value; the ⓘ explains what a steep or inverted curve historically meant for stocks and bonds.
• Central-bank policy rates — one row per bank your portfolio is actually exposed to, derived from where your companies are domiciled, the currencies they trade in, your cash and your display currency (the "why shown" chip explains each row). Columns: the current policy rate, the direction and date of the last change, and the next scheduled decision from the banks' official calendars.

The Trades tab echoes the same data as a one-line decision ribbon above the buy plan, linking back here. The card is part of Advanced tools (on by default — ⚙ Settings → General turns it off), and the assistant carries a compact form of it in its context, so you can ask "what do current rates mean for my cash position?" in plain words.

The Explore tables

The Explore tab compares stocks side by side in three tables: Largest companies (US-listed, by market cap), Most active today (high-volume US stocks) and your Favourites. On the first load of a session they stream in row by row behind a real progress bar; after that they persist across tab switches and refresh quietly every 10 minutes.

Columns cover price (USD-normalized), today's % change, a 16-week price sparkline, 52-week range, market cap, P/E and forward P/E, EPS growth with 16-quarter trend bars, revenue growth, FCF and FCF yield, market-cap payback years, PEG, ROE, net debt/EBITDA, short interest (short % of float and days to cover — crowding and squeeze context) — plus the weight each stock already has in your portfolio, and a transparent buy/hold/sell signal with its reasons spelled out.

• To choose columns: click the ⚙ in the table card's top-right corner and untick what you don't need — it hides instantly (the Stock column always stays). The choice is saved per table in your browser; columns added in later releases start visible.
• To page through: tables show 20 rows per page by default, with a quiet ‹ 1–20 of 50 › pager underneath when there's more. Pick 10 / 20 / 50 / 100 rows per page at the foot of the same ⚙ popover — also saved per table.
• To sort: click any header — sorting reorders the whole set (and jumps back to page 1).
• To resize the tables: set how many stocks each table loads in ⚙ Settings → General. Smaller tables load faster.

Category chips (region, sector, company size) are color-coded with a legend. Clicking any row opens the stock's detail drawer with split-adjusted history, fundamentals, short-interest detail, recent insider activity (SEC Form 4 open-market buys and sells, clustered over the last 3 months — US-listed stocks) and news.

Favourites (your watchlist)

• To star a stock, click the star in any Explore table, in the finder's results, or in a stock drawer. Starred names collect in the Favourites table on Explore.
• Stars stay in sync everywhere — finder, tables, drawers.
• To group the watchlist into lists, use the tabs beside the Favourites table's title. All is the whole watchlist; + makes a named list, ✎ renames the one you are on and ✕ deletes it. A stock can be in several lists at once — click the ⊞ beside a row's star to tick the lists it belongs to, or name a new one right there.
• The first row is the table, summed up — and not just here: every Explore table (Favourites, Largest companies, Most active today, search results) opens with Average of 15, and under each column what those stocks look like together — the average P/E, EV/EBITDA, growth, ROE, daily move and so on, over the whole table rather than the page you are looking at, with every stock counted once. Two columns are deliberately different: In portfolio is their combined weight rather than an average, and Price is left blank, because the average of two share prices is not a price. A table with a single stock gets no averages row.
• Or drag it there: drag any row — from the Favourites table, from Largest companies or Most active today, or a result straight out of the search at the top of the page — onto a list tab (into that list, starred on the way in), onto the Favourites table itself (into whichever tab it is showing — on All the drop simply stars it), or onto the + (the new-list naming opens with the cursor ready and the ticker waiting: Enter creates the list holding it, Esc drops the idea). Each target rings itself as you hover it; dropping something that is already there answers with a quiet note rather than an error. On a touch screen use the ⊞ instead — drags need a mouse.
• A list is a view of your watchlist, not a separate one: putting a stock in a list stars it, unstarring removes it from every list, and deleting a list never unstars anything. The tab you were last on is remembered.
• The assistant can do all of it too — "add ASML to my AI list", "take NVDA out of my Semis list", "make a list called Dividends", "what's in my dividends list?".
• Your watchlist's fundamentals are part of the assistant's context, and the Buy advice ✨ report considers watchlist names for new buys — the whole watchlist, whatever you have grouped where.