Search the Fire TV Appstore for "stocks" and you get a mix of real apps, abandoned ones and a few that are a news feed with a logo on it. We build a stock market app for Fire TV, so we scroll that list more often than we would like. Our opinion after years of it: an investor needs two kinds of apps on a Fire TV, a channel with people talking about the market and a screen with the actual numbers, and the free versions of both are better than most people expect.
Every app below was listed in the US Amazon Appstore for Fire TV when we checked on October 31, 2026. We left out anything we could not confirm, and we say plainly where you need a cable login or a subscription. We make one of the apps on this list, and we will tell you where it fits and where something else is the better pick.
Free business news channels on Fire TV
Pluto TV, for Bloomberg TV+. Pluto TV is a free, ad-supported app, and its News + Opinion section carries Bloomberg TV+, Bloomberg's free streaming channel. Pluto describes it as a live, 24-hour global business and financial news channel. It is Bloomberg's streaming channel rather than the cable feed, but it is the easiest free way to keep Bloomberg on a Fire TV. Once Pluto TV is installed, its channels also show up in the Fire TV's Live tab guide, so you can flip to it like a normal channel.
Haystack News, for Yahoo Finance. Haystack News is a free news app with ads, plus an optional ad-free subscription. It carries a live Yahoo Finance channel, which is where we would point anyone who wants Yahoo's market shows on a TV today. Yahoo also streams its live market coverage on YouTube, and the YouTube app on Fire TV plays those streams fine.
YouTube. The YouTube app comes on every Fire TV, and it is the easiest free source of people actually talking about the market. CNBC, Bloomberg Television and Yahoo Finance all post segments and interviews there through the trading day, and plenty of investing shows and creators publish market wraps and long-form interviews. Subscribe to a few channels on your phone and they show up on the TV. It is on demand rather than a live channel, which suits watching the day's recap after the close.
Schwab Network. Charles Schwab's free network has its own Fire TV app with live shows on trading days and a library of on-demand clips. It started in 2017 as the TD Ameritrade Network, and it still leans toward education, with CEO interviews and investing tutorials alongside the live market coverage. Some Appstore reviews mention the app freezing on its splash screen, so it is not the most polished app here.
How to watch CNBC on Fire TV, and what about Fox Business
CNBC. The CNBC app for Fire TV is free to download. Without signing in you get clips and some live coverage of select news and events. The full live channel needs a TV provider sign-in, and a live TV streaming subscription that includes CNBC counts as a provider. We walk through the no-cable options in how to keep the stock market on your TV without cable.
Fox Business. The Fox Business app is on Fire TV too, and its listing is blunt about it: US only, TV provider login required. The other legal route is Fox One, Fox's own streaming subscription, which includes Fox Business live and runs on Fire TV. Fox lists Fire OS 6 as the minimum, which rules out the original 2014 Fire TV Stick (more on old sticks below).
Bloomberg. Bloomberg's own app has been on Fire TV since the device launched in 2014 and lists a live Bloomberg TV stream alongside its shows. How much of the live channel you can watch without a Bloomberg subscription has changed over the years, so check the app before you count on it. For a free channel in the background, Bloomberg TV+ on Pluto TV is the no-strings route.
Stock market apps for Fire TV that show prices
News channels have one limitation that no app update will fix: they show the stocks their producers are talking about. The ticker along the bottom of a business channel is their list, not yours. For your own list, you need an app built around your stocks.
MarketCast (ours). MarketCast is built around the Stream: your stocks, the major indexes, the day's movers and headlines cycling full screen on your TV on their own, with a ticker tape along the bottom. You turn it on and leave it on. You build lists of the stocks you follow, and you can add stocks from your phone by scanning a QR code instead of typing with the remote. The free version shows delayed prices and is supported by commercials and sponsors. Premium is the real-time data package: real-time stock prices, crypto around the clock, no commercials, Congress trades and more customization. What it does not do: there are no anchors or live video interviews, and it does not connect to your brokerage account. You add the stocks you want to watch.
A combination that works well: a news channel when you want commentary, and the Stream when you want the numbers. Switching between them on a Fire TV takes a few clicks of the remote. If you have a second, spare TV in an office or kitchen, putting the Stream on it full time is the most useful thing we know to do with it, and our guide to turning an old TV into a market screen covers the setup.
Which Fire TV runs stock and news apps best
Video apps like Pluto TV and CNBC run on almost any Fire TV that still gets updates. Apps that stay on screen all day are different. In our testing, memory matters more than the 4K label. The Fire TV family ranges from 1 GB of RAM (Fire TV Stick 2nd and 3rd gen, Stick Lite) to 1.5 GB (the 2018 Fire TV Stick 4K, 1st gen) to 2 GB (Fire TV Stick 4K 2nd gen, Fire TV Stick 4K Max 2nd gen, Fire TV Cube). On the 2018 Fire TV Stick 4K, a market screen left running overnight could run out of memory, and we had to shrink our image caches and QR codes to keep it stable. The 1 GB sticks work, but switching between apps means a lot of reloading.
Not sure which one you have? Go to Settings, then My Fire TV, then About. If it is the original 2014 stick, it is stuck on Fire OS 5, and our article on when to upgrade a 1st gen Fire Stick explains why it is time.
If you are buying a stick for market apps, one warning. Amazon's newest sticks, the Fire TV Stick 4K Select (October 2025) and the 2026 Fire TV Stick HD, run Vega OS instead of Fire OS. Android apps do not run on Vega and there is no sideloading, so the app catalog is separate, and we did not check every app above on it. MarketCast works on every Fire TV, including the new Vega sticks. Our Vega OS explainer has the details, and if your current stick feels sluggish, start with how to speed up a Fire TV Stick.
What we left out, and why
A standalone Yahoo Finance TV app. Yahoo did launch one for Fire TV years ago, but we could not find a current listing in the US Appstore, so Haystack News and YouTube are how we would watch Yahoo Finance today.
"Every channel free" apps. Apps that promise CNBC and Bloomberg for nothing are usually unlicensed streams that you have to sideload. Everything on this list comes from the Appstore.
Trading. None of these apps place trades, ours included. They are for watching. Also keep in mind that a free tier with delayed prices will not match your broker's screen to the penny, which we explain in why your stock price differs from your broker.
Our short list
If you want free market news on a Fire TV, install Pluto TV for Bloomberg TV+ and Haystack News for Yahoo Finance. If you pay for TV, add the CNBC and Fox Business apps and sign in. If you want your own stocks on the screen, install MarketCast and leave the Stream on.
If that sounds like MarketCast, download it free on Fire TV, Google TV, Android TV or Apple TV, and start the Stream. The Stream guide shows what plays on it. Setting up a screen for an office? The office stock ticker guide covers it, our Enterprise plan (in early access) runs every TV in a firm from one desktop dashboard, and if you are weighing a TV against a hardware ticker, read LED stock ticker vs a TV.