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A new entry for CRUDE was added to the Watchlist and also included in the home page Watchlist.  This is intended to be the current global price for crude oil, as reported by Yahoo! Financials' CL=F ticker symbol.  It is of particular interest of late because of the recent start of the war between Ukraine and Russia and the reports by the US President that this is impacting the price of oil.  Whether or not this is actually the case is perhaps not as a clear cut.  Perhaps raising its visibility will bring a little more clarity to this topic over time.

Some other minor tweaks were made to the Watchlist, primarily around changing the sort order of the elements at the end of the list.

Tilray's acquisition of Aphria completed on May 3rd, so the APHA stock is no longer listed.  TLRY wasn't previously included in the Watchlist, so it has replaced APHA.

After today's remarkable 10% gain by Apple, I thought it would be good to add some highlighting to the main Watchlist block on the home page. 

• Green highlights indicate a stock that has more than a 5% gain.
• Red highlights indicate a stock that has more than a 5% loss.

If you'd like some other highlighting options, just let us know.

Some additions to the 500 Foods Watchlist. 

• Currencies:  The USD/CAD and CAD/USD rates have been added.
• Indices:  The DJIA, NASDAQ and S&P500 have been added.

Importantly, none of these come from the IEX Cloud interface but rather as a direct pull from the Yahoo! Finance website, and are updated every 30 minutes as well.  Why is this?  Indices aren't available at all via IEX and they don't plan on making them available any time soon due to licensing and fee structure issues. IEX does offer currency data, but not on the free tier that we currently use. Should we subscribe to one of the premium tiers in future, perhaps to get more timely data for the Watchlist, then we'll change the currency data feed to use IEX as well.

A brand new feature of the website is the Watchlist - a list of publicly traded companies and a brief snapshot of their stock situation.