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Stocks and Investments

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News

General Sites with Worldwide Links


Calculators

Calculator Index (USA Today)
Mutual funds, stocks, bonds, home mortgages, retirement, credit cards, autos, personal loans, home equity loan, Roth IRA, budgeting, savings, and insurance.

FinanCenter (Bankers Portfolio Exchange)
Calculator for rates of return on stocks, bonds, and mutual funds.

MoneyChimp
Financial calculators for compound interest, present value, rate of return, annuity, bond yield, and mortgage.

Yahoo Finance Reference - Calculators
Find calculators for auto loans, inflation, life insurance and real estate finance.

Quotations and Charts

Bloomberg Market Data (Bloomberg.com)

BigCharts (CBS Market Watch)
Interactive charts, quotes, reports and indicators on over 50,000 stocks, mutual funds and market indexes. Also includes historical quotes.

Market Insight (Charles Schwab)

eSIGNAL.com
Indexes, markets, quotes, and charts.

Market Data (CBS Market Watch)

Motley Fool
This personal investing site is educational without taking itself too seriously.

OANDA Currency Converter (Olsen & Associates)
Find current as well as historical currency exchange rates going back to 1971. Historical rates can be formatted in CSV or ASCII for downloading.

PCQuote (PC Quote, Inc.)

Quote.com (Lycos)
Current and historical quotes for equities, mutual funds and indices.

Telenium: Canada's Financial Host
Find quotes for Canadian companies.

Stocks: InternetNews.com
Has lots of news about the markets and also includes stock quotes.

Yahoo! Finance
This is a classic stock quote site offering plenty of features with easy navigation.

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Dictionaries

CFTC Glossary: A Layman's Guide to the Language of the Futures Industry (U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission)
Although there's nothing fancy about the interface, the definitions are helpful.

InvestorWords.com (WebFinance, Inc.)
Search or browse 6,000 definitions of financial terms with links between related terms. Sign up to receive the Term of the Day by email.

Investopedia.com (Equade Internet Ltd.)
An excellent financial dictionary that's also one of the best places to find buzzwords, slang and acronyms.

WashingtonPost.com Business Glossary
Search or browse this trusty glossary.

Market Indexes

World Indices (Bloomberg.com)
Covers all the major world indices by region.

Markets & Stocks (CNN)
National and international market indexes.

Russell Indexes (Frank Russell Co.)
Russell's equity indexes cover the U.S., Canada, and Japan.

Yahoo! Finance
Covers major U.S. and World equity indices. Includes historical prices that can be downloaded into spreadsheet format.

Company Profiles

LexisNexis Academic (LexisNexis) UWW access only
Choose Business, then Company Financials to search for millions of U.S., international, public and private companies.

Annual Reports Service
The Public Register's Annual Report Service offers links to thousands of annual reports on company Web sites. They will also send paper copy annual reports to requesters. Free registration is required.

Corporate Information
This site searches a variety of online directories for more than 350,000 company profiles.

EdgarScan (PricewaterhouseCoopers)
Find important facts about publicly-traded companies from their filings to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the 10-K is the annual report to the SEC).

Europages.com
Search for information on 50,000 companies in 30 European countries.

Financials.com (E-Line Financials, Inc.)
Find quotes as well as income statements, balance sheets and earnings estimates.

Hoover's Online
Find company descriptions and top competitors. Features marked with "lock" icon require a subscription, but some basic data on Hoover's is free.

Kompass.com
Addresses and phone numbers of 1.6 million companies in more than 70 countries.

Switchboard.com
Online yellow pages for millions of U.S. companies.

Thomasnet.com
Search the directory of 170,000 U.S. manufacturer by state, product, brand or company name. Site is free, but requires registration.

Yahoo Companies
Links to company home pages arranged by industry. Use the ticker symbol lookup and then select profile to find information on publicly-traded companies.

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Mutual Funds

Brill's Mutual Funds Interactive
Link to funds online, browse the glossary, and learn about investing in Funds 101.

iMoneyNet, Inc
Money market mutual fund data and tools.

Mutual Funds Center (Yahoo! Finance)
Mutual fund quotes; the Mutual Fund Screener is a screening tool to find funds that meet user-defined criteria.

Mutual Fund Fact Book (Investment Company Institute)
Facts and figures on the mutual funds industry.

TheStreet.com Research
Find fund quotes, profiles, and prospectuses.

Options and Futures

Energy Information Administration (U.S. Department of Energy)
Status reports and prices for petroleum, natural gas, gasoline, and diesel fuel.

Financial Pipeline Derivatives Page
Learn all about futures, options, swaps, and other derivatives. Includes a glossary of terms.

INO.com
Quotes, charts, and news targeted to futures and options traders worldwide.

Intro to Futures (Chicago Mercantile Exchange)
Learn the fundamentals of commodities trading from futures contracts to technical analysis to hand signals.

Options Basics (Investopedia.com)
This introduction to options is neatly organized and includes helpful diagrams to illustrate key concepts. Even includes a self-test.

Numa Reference Index (Numa Financial Systems)
Includes a number of reference tools including Options Strategy Guide, Derivatives FAQ, Guide To Futures And Options Orders, Acronyms, articles, and a Derivatives Spreadsheet Library.

Reference Works

Financial Data Finder (Ohio State Univ.)
Screen to find Web sites/databases on various financial topics. Most of the commercial databases found through this service require subscriptions.

Introduction to Investment Theory (William N. Goetzmann, Yale Univ.
An online textbook that introduces investment decision-making.

Law and Compliance Center Article Archive (SECLaw.com)
Articles on securities regulation.

Macro-Investment Analysis (William F. Sharpe, Stanford Univ.)
Learn about investment analysis from the Nobel Laureate who brought us the Capital Asset Pricing Model. See Prof. Sharp's home page for more articles, papers and cases.

Securities Lawyer's Deskbook (The Center for Corporate Law, Univ. of Cincinnati College of Law)
Includes the full text of federal securities laws and regulations, as well as links to the principal Securities and Exchange Commission forms under those laws and regulations.

Yahoo's Stock Screener (Yahoo!)
Screen for stocks by rates of return, margins, company size and other financial criteria.

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