Morningstar and Reed Elsevier-backed stock trading tool provider YCharts takes total funding to $8.6m with series C round.

Morningstar, the investment research provider, has led the third round of funding for US-based YCharts, the online provider of stock market data analysis tools, which considers itself to be a web-based financial terminal.

Reed Elsevier Ventures, the corporate venturing arm of Anglo-Dutch media company Reed Elsevier, which focuses on making investments in internet, risk, healthcare and technology companies, also participated in the $3.9m funding round.  Other investors included Amicus Capital (US-based, seed-stage information technology investor), Hyde Park Angels (US-based angel…