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MarketWatch's reputation has significantly declined, with customers expressing frustration over perceived censorship and biased reporting that favors specific political narratives. Many users feel that their comments are unfairly rejected, undermining the platform's claim of being an open forum for discussion. Additionally, complaints regarding subscription issues, poor customer service, and a lack of useful content have emerged, leading to dissatisfaction among former supporters. While some users still appreciate the site's financial information, the overall sentiment leans heavily towards disappointment, indicating a need for improvement in both content quality and customer engagement practices.

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Oregon
3 reviews
19 helpful votes
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Marketwatch changes
November 20, 2020

Marketwatch now wants to charge $22.99 for much of its content. Not worth the price when you can get it at Newsmax Finance and CNBC Business for free. Bye, bye Marketwatch!

Date of experience: November 20, 2020
Virginia
1 review
3 helpful votes
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MW has always been a good quick read of news and events driving the Market. Now they have become very greedy in charging a hefty subscription for what was always free.
The news MW covers is extensively covered in many Investing newsletters and outlets, such as BLOOMBERG, Benzinga, Seeking Alpha, MSN MONEY, FORBES.
Now MW has priced out hundreds of thousands of loyal everyday readers.
I sense that some of this greed is to take advantage of the COVID enforced stay at home economy. All people need an income to survive and using Savvy many have moved to Trading Platforms like Robinhood (which is still free) to try to produce an income. But MW choose to charge this new generation of Investors shamelessly.

‘What goes around, comes around' I hope these Investors vote with their wallets.
Investing information is freely available on Investopedia, Fidelity, Vangaurd, TDAMERITRADE.

Date of experience: November 11, 2020
Hawaii
3 reviews
86 helpful votes
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Awful place to find market news. They propagate a leftist narrative and censor anything that doesn't fit with in their "community guidelines." Basically you'll be censored if you have an opposing viewpoint. Moreover, I had used Marketwatch for years when all of a sudden they started to block viewing of their articles with a paywall. Will never use again nor recommend their website.

Date of experience: November 7, 2020
Washington
1 review
74 helpful votes
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$20 a month now?
November 7, 2020

So - you went from ad supported to $20 a month subscription so I can read one article that says "Dow will soar in next quarter" only to be followed by another article that says "Dow about to plunge". How do your advertisers feel about the 90+% loss of internet traffic you're experiencing? There are other options for people out there, and you just shot yourself in the foot. Enjoy bankruptcy.

Date of experience: November 7, 2020
Texas
3 reviews
46 helpful votes
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Can no longer read articles that you can read for free on CNBC and 1000 other sites without joining their site for a ridiculous $24 a month. Can no longer make comments on articles you can no longer read. They should have stuck to ads and clickbait. Adios Marketwatch!

Date of experience: November 5, 2020
Maine
5 reviews
32 helpful votes
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Terrible
October 30, 2020

I can't believe there is information out there saying this site is conservative. Definitely not the case. The authors there are terrible and they constantly write the same types of stories. They always have articles that contradict one another and it is just comical. The site just frustrates me every time I look at it. I'd say it's on par with Yahoo Finance..

Date of experience: October 30, 2020
North Carolina
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Now a pay site- Buh bye
October 29, 2020

Marketwatch recently changed to Pay- only, You can click on a headline, but it won't let you read the article. That's a shame, I have used the site for years for stock quotes. It has some interesting articles but a lot of click bait that is BS.
The site leans Democrat, has become more anti-Trump recently. Would I pay for the site? Hell no.

Date of experience: October 29, 2020
New Jersey
1 review
82 helpful votes
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Goodbye to MarketWatch
October 26, 2020

So all of the news articles are blocked on MW now...

How in their right mind do they think that all of those crappy, ill -informed news articles are actually worth the subscription price of $23.99 per month. What a blatant rip-off attempt... their "news" was OK for free but certainly has no monetary value at all... especially when there are many other legitimate sources elsewhere for free... or if they do charge, at least they are actual news agencies.

Date of experience: October 26, 2020
Tennessee
1 review
37 helpful votes
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If you dont support anti trump activities you eventually get locked out. They write a policy but then they abhorrent and a continuum derogatory garbage about POTUS I mean you wouldnt write some this stuff about your enemies.

As for stock watching snatch grab and spit you out dont use it unless you have nothing else to do

Has to be funded by Bloombger, Schumer Cuomo, Obama, Soros, Gates, Google et al

Date of experience: October 21, 2020
Missouri
2 reviews
21 helpful votes
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Worthless.
August 30, 2020

Comments the moderators do not agree with, regardless of accuracy, are not published. Definitely agenda driven. Anyone with a perspective that doesn't agree with their agenda, is deleted or blocked from being published. Everything cannot be all good, all the time, and the "best" time to invest.

Date of experience: August 30, 2020
Florida
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Market Watch is using OpenWeb to monitor its comments section. Market Watch knows Openweb is shadow banning anyone not inline with the progressive agenda of the left. Pathetic of a financial site to join the left propaganda machine.

Date of experience: August 27, 2020
Albania
6 reviews
9 helpful votes
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Their website is very informative with useful graphs and the latest news about the market.
However, when I tried to contact them about my queries; they haven't responded yet. I hope they can be improve this in the future.

Date of experience: August 14, 2020
Washington
1 review
27 helpful votes
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Marketwatch is your 24/7, 365 doom and gloom generator brought to you by all the rich guys banking on your emotional sell offs. It's purpose is just to scare you, make you think you need them to look out for you, and to attempt to manipulate the market because volatility and sell offs make the rich richer. I say "attempt" because it is easy to see through what they are trying to do.

Date of experience: July 28, 2020
California
1 review
13 helpful votes
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Beware
July 18, 2020

Marketwatch is a radical far left propaganda machine. Mostly doom and gloom stock news. They repeat negative news on companies they hate over and over.

Date of experience: July 18, 2020
North Carolina
1 review
23 helpful votes
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I like the financial information (sparse as it is among the political hit pieces) and its easy access format, but the website seems to just be one big liberal/leftist propaganda machine whose sole purpose is to tear down our president. I'm not crazy about our president either (wish he would let someone else do the talking and tweeting), but the constant negative and destructive barrage of this website is just depressing.

Date of experience: July 5, 2020
Florida
1 review
27 helpful votes
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Censors Comments
June 23, 2020

Horrible Site full of liberal anarchist. Used to be a good source for financial news, now is just a trash site for liberal bloggers. Comments from Conservatives are censored and removed within 1 minute of posting. Perfect example of how liberal media is twisting this country.

Date of experience: June 22, 2020
Kentucky
2 reviews
12 helpful votes
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Used to be good information about stock markets. Now, comments are consumed with hate-speech. I wish they would leave off public comments off, like Reuter's. People can write letters to the editor instead.

Date of experience: June 1, 2020
New Hampshire
2 reviews
61 helpful votes
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Cyber bullying
May 20, 2020

These people are NOT journalists! Every article that pops up from them is totally one sided opinion pieces and generally abusive and insulting to the other viewpoint! It's basically just cyber bullying without oversight. Disgusting!

Date of experience: May 20, 2020
Minnesota
1 review
23 helpful votes
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Misinformation
April 9, 2020

Misinformation to steer the 'public' away from what the investors are really doing.
They point out "it's not at the bottom yet." or "prepare for massive up-swing" to push the general public stock market players to a direction that plays into the hands of the big money investors.

Date of experience: April 9, 2020
New York
1 review
41 helpful votes
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Worst of the Worst
March 5, 2020

The website is CONSTANTLY having connection issues and at times won't let you buy or sell stocks for no reason. The site frequently doesn't update correctly and the standings in the challenge games are right only 30% of the time. The headlines are laughably negative, all the time. Know what you're getting into before diving into market watch, the site SUCKS!

Date of experience: March 5, 2020