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"Providing the level of in-depth, real-time financial information and analysis that we're able to offer with Wolfram|Alpha would have been prohibitively expensive and time-consuming without Xignite's web services," he says.
"With the volatile world economy, the demand for real-time financial information has exploded in the past year," he says. "Now more than ever, consumers are constantly reassessing how they get their information on the web to ensure they have the latest and most intuitive answers and insights."
Wolfram Alpha gets the following info from Xignite:
- real-time and historical stock prices
- market indices
- interest rates
-currency exchange rates
- commodity prices
- various economic statistics
Using Xignite Web services, Wolfram|Alpha provides financial info for queries as simple as something like "biggest automotive company," or something more complex like "what is General Electric’s dividend per share in euros." Results come based on real-time rates and location awareness according to Xignite.
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