The site cannot even help you open a brokerage account. Right now we are totally dependent on advertising, although there is not much of that going around. I have other gripes. It is too slow. Far too much emphasis is placed on putting information on the portal's front door and too little attention is paid to the search engine.
Navigation is another hassle.
Good financial portals should supply links that put information in the proper perspective. When I look up something about the networking giant Cisco, I expect to be told where I can find information about its competitor Nortel as well. It will alert registered users on the stock recommendations of analysts and other important market information. But a Big Bang deregulation that would legalize all forms of online trading at rock bottom costs may be just around the corner. The buzz in Singapore is that the government will announce a Big Bang that would boost online trading the way similar reforms spurred an online revolution in Korea 16 months ago.