What changed recently in the My Portfolio views of Yahoo Finance that the numbers are so faint?

Question

The numbers displayed in any of the Position views of Yahoo Finance Portfolios recently changed to be very faint and dim. The red and green numbers representing each of my funds opens bright and bold, then changes in a few seconds to faint and dim. The up (green) and down (red) arrows are still bright and bold, but the numbers are now so faint it is difficult to read them. Have others seen this change within the past week? I don't think it is just me. Any of the portfolio position views do the same thing. Starts off bright like before, then dims in a few seconds.

Answer 1

This may be the resulto of the "New and Improved" (?) Yahoo Portfolios.  Frankly, the new view SUCKS!  The best advise I can give:

Change your URL to: http://sg.finance.yahoo.com/p?v&k=pf_1

Yahoo Singapore seems to be the closest to what we used to have since it has the "Set Alert" link next to "Create Transaction History" in the lower left.  This works for now, but the chances are that corporate will eventually cram their "New and Improved" format down everybody's throat, worldwide.  Sounds like a classic "Dilbert Syndrome" with too many pointy-haired bosses. . .

The view that existed before this one worked just fine - you could print a portfolio with about 40 entries on it with IE7 by selecting the stuff you wanted, go to print preview, view as selected on screen, adjust size scaling, landscape format and you got a nice spreadsheet-type printout for your historical records all on one page.  The new view effectively double-spaces the data lines and you must shrink the effective font smaller in order to fit it on one page.

Personally, I liked the previous portfolio printouts that I used to make because they came out in a very nice table with solid black header labels, block printed like an Excel spreadsheet.

One can only hope that they will look at all of the negative comments that have been posted about the "New View."

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Answer 2

need a new monitor... it is dying