Yahoo! Finance's Industry pages provide news, market summary, profile information, calendar events, people profiles, and other resources for a broad range of industries.
News: See the most recent and most popular news stories pertaining to the industry. Industry news is selected from the range of news sources you find elsewhere on Yahoo! Finance. See financial news help for more information.
Message Boards: Yahoo! Finance tracks the popularity of company message boards and lists the most popular and most unusually active message boards relevant to the industry. Unusually active boards are the boards with the biggest variance from their normal posting activity within the last three hours.
Industry Profile: Hoover's Online provides commentary on the recent trends and events within each industry.
Key People: Hoover's Online also provides profiles on key industry figures such as executives of industry-leading companies, regulatory figures, and thought leaders.
Market Summary: This module displays the intraday performance and chart of a stock index that reflects the aggregate performance of selected stocks within the industry. Most active, highest percentage gaining, and highest percentage losing stocks within the universe of stocks in the industry are also highlighted.
Industry Calendar: The Industry Center Events Calendar pulls together the dates and events relevant to an industry from the various calendars available on Yahoo! Finance. Events include earnings dates, conference calls, stock splits, IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, upgrades/downgrades, and earnings surprises.
Online Resources and Associations & Organizations: Hoover's Online provides links to key industry resources that can be found in these modules.
More industry information can be found at Yahoo! Finance's Industry Center.