Google is turning Google Finance into a much more powerful — and much more global — investing sidekick. Over the next few weeks, the AI-powered version of Google Finance is rolling out to more than 100 countries, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Indonesia, Japan and Mexico, after debuting in the U.S. and India last year. The big idea: give anyone, almost anywhere, a smarter way to research markets, track stocks and follow earnings in their local language, right inside Google Search.

At the center of this revamp is AI-powered research. Instead of manually digging through charts, filings and scattered articles, you can just ask natural-language questions like “How has Tesla performed vs the Nasdaq over the last five years?” or “Which Indian banks are most exposed to retail lending?” and get a single, summarized AI answer with links to sources for deeper reading. This is built on Google’s Gemini models and is meant to turn messy financial data into something a non-professional investor can actually understand without a Bloomberg terminal–style setup.

For people who love charts, there’s a serious upgrade there too. The new Google Finance adds advanced visualization tools that go beyond simple price lines: you can toggle technical indicators such as moving average envelopes, switch to candlestick charts, and compare performance across sectors or indices in the same view. These are the kind of features that used to be locked behind paid trading platforms, but here they’re exposed in a browser tab for free.

News and market coverage are getting smarter as well. Google Finance now pulls in a revamped, real-time news feed tailored to your watchlist and interests, aggregating headlines and updates from trusted financial sources so you don’t have to hop between multiple apps or sites. There’s expanded data for commodities and more cryptocurrencies, so you can track things like oil, gold or Bitcoin alongside your regular stock portfolio in one place.

Arguably, the most “Wall Street–grade” feature is the live earnings experience. During corporate earnings season, you can open a company in Google Finance and get an “Upcoming earnings” view, then listen to live earnings calls directly on the page, with a real-time transcript running underneath. On top of that, Google layers AI-generated insights that highlight key points, summarize management commentary and pull out notable analyst or market reactions, updating before, during and after the call. You can also line up current results against historical numbers and Wall Street expectations, and jump into filings and reports without hunting around for PDFs.

Zooming out, the global expansion is as much about access as it is about features. By supporting local languages in over 100 markets, Google is positioning Finance as a tool not just for U.S. retail investors but for everyday savers, traders and finance-curious users around the world who might be navigating local exchanges and companies. It fits a broader pattern inside Google: bring AI-driven “personal intelligence” experiences into core products like Search, then slowly roll them out country by country.

For now, Google describes these AI features as experimental, and it’s not a substitute for professional financial advice, but it does narrow the gap between retail investors and institutional-level tools in a pretty big way. If you’ve ever felt that serious market research required pricey software, this update is Google’s pitch that a browser, Search, and an AI-powered Google Finance page might be enough for a lot of people.