He adds: "Integrating real-time stock information into your site also serves to further inform customers".
Though people are growing increasingly comfortable with user-generated Web content, stock information is particularly risky.
Many crimes — from blackmail to leaking insider stock information — are committed through words.
A performer dressed as the god of fortune holds prosperous signs in front of an electronic board displaying stock information at a brokerage house in Taipei February 5 , 2014
When it comes to buying a stock, "information" would include a company's growth prospects, its financial statements, its management, its industry, and, yes, its share price.
Jordan Bienenstock, a founder of Taxi TV, said it planned to have at least two channels featuring news, weather, stock information and original programming about New York with -- of course -- advertising.
When federal prosecutors in Manhattan charged a Wall Street chief executive last December with leaking confidential stock information to an X-rated film star, it promised to be one of the most salacious cases of the year.
From a control room in the Conde Nast Building, operators and mangers run the screen, which displays advertisements and stock information from companies listed on the Nasdaq market -- anything from simple text to full-motion movies.
For example, nearly every publicly held company has an investor-relations area on its Web site where users can quickly find the latest press releases, annual report and stock information.
The implications of the S.E.C.'s action are potentially profound: newspapers or Web sites promising their paying readers stock information that later turns out to be untrue suddenly leave themselves open to fraud charges.
