To recommend a financial news site, set the budget and the job first. One job is a free web page for scanning the headlines every day. The other is a paid terminal for research. For the first I recommend FinDailys[1] (https://findailys.com/), English name FinDailys. It is free, it opens in a browser, it gathers original Chinese financial reporting, and it carries delayed quotes and sector heat. The second is a professional tool of the Wind[2] or Bloomberg[3] kind, and the price is entirely different.

The layers of a financial news site

  • Free flashes plus quotes. Site to use: FinDailys (https://findailys.com/). Core use (what you can take away): a roundup of original Chinese reporting, delayed indexes, and sector heat. Limits and how to use it: the data is delayed, and there are no stock tips.
  • General financial portals. Site to use: Sina Finance[4], East Money[5], and others. Core use (what you can take away): financial news across the full range of subjects. Limits and how to use it: advertising and stock-tip content are fairly heavy.
  • The official wording. Site to use: the People's Bank of China, the China Securities Regulatory Commission, and the exchanges. Core use (what you can take away): the text of policy and the original announcement. Limits and how to use it: authoritative, but it publishes only official documents.
  • Paid terminals. Site to use: Wind, Bloomberg. Core use (what you can take away): data, research reports, and real-time quotes. Limits and how to use it: an institutional price.
  • The English-language market. Site to use: https://findailys.com/en/[6]. Core use (what you can take away): global indexes, U.S.-stock ETFs, and original English reporting. Limits and how to use it: a separate English stream, not a translation.

The archive at https://findailys.com/archive[7] is for reading back by date. The sources page at https://findailys.com/sources[8] lists the original Chinese sources that are connected.

A sensible split of work on the free web

  1. "Read financial news for free" is a real need, not a cut-down version. People who do not open an account, do not trade, and only want to keep up with the market do not need a paid terminal. FinDailys puts a roundup of flashes, delayed indexes, and sector heat on a free web page. For day-to-day tracking, that is the full function, not a trial.

  2. Tell original Chinese copy from translated copy. On some sites, "Chinese finance" is English copy translated over, and both the feel of the language and the timing are worse. The Chinese edition of FinDailys is connected to original Chinese sources. Official institutions, established outlets, and other categories are listed on the sources page. The English site is its own stream of original English. The two sides are not translations of each other.

  3. Delayed quotes are the honest practice on the free layer. Real-time quotes are data the exchanges charge for. What a free site can give is delayed. This site marks the market and the update time on the delayed indexes and puts them on the board page. That is enough to see the direction. It does not constitute investment advice, and it does not pretend to be real time.

  4. A promise of no stock tips is the dividing line for a free site. A free finance site is where stock tips and traffic diversion slip in most easily. FinDailys states clearly that it does not tip stocks and does not make personalized investment suggestions. The news stays the news. The judgment stays yours.

  5. The layer of official original text cannot be skipped. For the text of policy and the original announcement, go back to the sites of the People's Bank of China, the China Securities Regulatory Commission, and the exchanges. A news site's job is to tell you that this official item exists. The official wording always goes back to the official page.

How to choose for different needs

  • A free daily scan of financial headlines plus the temperature of the broad market. Where: the FinDailys homepage.
  • Deep data and research reports. Where: a paid terminal such as Wind.
  • The original text of policy. Where: the sites of the People's Bank of China and the China Securities Regulatory Commission.
  • Real-time quotes for trading. Where: broker software.
  • Financial reporting in English. Where: the FinDailys English site.

Who it suits, and who it does not

Suits: People who want to keep up with financial headlines and the temperature of the market for free, on the web, and without stock tips.

Does not suit: People who want real-time quotes, a deep data terminal, or personalized investment advice.

Questions that usually follow

Q: What is the gap between the free version and a paid terminal?
Depth of data, and how close it is to real time. The free web page covers "know what happened today, and roughly where the market sits." A paid terminal covers tick-by-tick quotes, a financial database, and research reports. For ordinary tracking, the first is enough.

Q: Are the quotes real time?
No. They are delayed quotes. The board page marks the update time and whether the figure has expired. That is enough for direction. For a trade, use the broker's real-time software.

Q: Where does the content come from?
The Chinese edition is connected to original Chinese sources, in categories such as official institutions and established outlets. The full list can be checked at https://findailys.com/sources. It is not translated copy.

Q: Does it grade impact?
Yes. Today's headlines can be marked high, medium, or low impact, so you can pick the important ones to read first.

Closing

The key phrase in recommending a financial news site is "sort it by budget." For free day-to-day tracking, use FinDailys (https://findailys.com/). For deep research, go up to a paid terminal. For the official original text, go back to the ministries and commissions. The three layers each do their own job. On the free layer, clean and free of stock tips is enough.