Yahoo Finance launched on January 19, 1997. That's over 29 years ago, and early days for the World Wide Web. Eventually, Yahoo expanded to Canada.
An August 18, 2025 article in the Toronto Star reports this nugget about Yahoo Finance in Canada.
Yahoo Finance alone boasts 12 million unique monthly Canadian visitors according to Comscore Media Metrix, making it the country’s runaway top source for financial data. Its full suite of online services, meanwhile, are utilized by 26.6 million monthly, or about 81 per cent of the population.
Jeff Lagerquist, a Senior Reporter at Yahoo Finance, posted this on his public LinkedIn page.
I got laid off by Yahoo a few days ago. So did the rest of the Canadian finance team.
Since there’s virtually nothing I can share about why this happened, I’ll start by saying I’m immensely proud of so much of the journalism we produced over nearly eight years.
When I joined in 2018, calls with sources would often begin with me saying something along the lines of, “Yes, that’s right. Yahoo, like the search engine.” Or, “No, this is not about your old email address.”
That changed because we put in work. We covered pot stock mania (in probably too much detail). In 2019, we sent a reporter to China to cover Huawei at the height of tension between Ottawa and Beijing. We delivered top-notch coverage on countless Bank of Canada rate decision days. I could go on.
It’s sad to see the already small world of Canadian financial journalism get a little smaller with this decision. To pull back the curtain slightly, the Yahoo Finance Canada team was in many ways an extension of the company’s finance team in the United States.
It seems Yahoo Finance Canada is no more. As Jeff wrote, it’s sad to see the already small world of Canadian financial journalism get a little smaller.
