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What is the difference between "last trade" and "real time" stock quotes?

Looking at stock prices on Yahoo Finance, each stock shows two different prices: Last Trade and Real-Time. Both numbers are updating constantly, but they're always a little different. Which is the actual price? And why bother listing anything other than the actual price?

Public Comments

1. Last trade would be the last trade that was actually completed, real-time would be the current bid-ask spread price.
2. Real-time is the real-time price, last trade is the price 10 minutes ago (the quote is being delayed for 10 minutes.) There is no difference if the quote was in real-time.
3. 1.- last trade quote means the stock price used in last trade. - real time stock quotes means current stock price 2. the actual price is real time quotes 3. it is a useful information for investors.