Business, Accounting Resources
Stocks, the Market & Interest Rates
American Stock Exchange - AMEX trading on one of the foremost markets in the country.
Chicago Mercantile Exchange - International trading on futures at one of the world's major trading exchanges.
Dow Jones Indexes - Dow Data on DJI. Back to 1895. Chart in 10 years or year by year. Year by year has major events during that year: scientific inventions, movies, music, and sports. Dow Jones Indexes develops, maintains and licenses market indexes for use as benchmarks and as the basis of investment products. Among its more than 3,000 indexes are the world's best-known stock indicator, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and the leading Pan-European indexes. Offers additional links to Canadian style Dow Jones Index, featured article, additional links, press releases, Links for Blue Chip Indexes, Benchmark indexes, Specialty indexes and custom indexes, Publications: quarterly published newsletter, downloadable for free in PDF format, Annual report: Dow Jones Averages 2000 Annual Report (call 1.800 number for complimentary copy).
Federal Reserve Board - Online home of the central United States bank.
Holt Report Home Page - Provides stock market information.
ICI Mutual Fund Connection Home Page - This page is perfect for the beginner investor. Not only does this page give the latest news from the investment world, but also gives lessons in shareholding, IRAs and 401(k)s.
InvestorWords - An on-line dictionary that will help you get to the bottom of Investor Jargon.
Mergerstat - This web site will give you information, including SEC filings, on the latest national mergers and acquisitions, complete with links to stock information.
Multexinvestor - Information about stocks, including institutional ownership. Links under Stocks, Funds, Personal Finance, and What’s Hot/What’s Not under Stocks. Investing Strategies: Tip of the Day, various investing strategy articles. Tools and Research under Funds – what the pros are buying, detailed fund info with comparisons to competitors. Personal Finance: insurance tools, tax tools and mortgage tools, calculators for insurance and 2001 taxes, articles about renting vs. buying, how much house one can afford.
NASDAQ - NASDAQ Stock Market.
New York Stock Exchange Home Page - Webpage of the world's largest equities market.
OTCBB - OTC Bulletin Board.
Philadelphia Stock Exchange - Anything and everything about the Philadelphia Stock Exchange.
Risk Grades - By RiskMetrics, it provides investors with a measure of price volatility to help them understand their market risk.
Securities Exchange Commission - Public company filings with the SEC. Purpose: to protect investors and maintain the integrity of the securities markets all investors, whether large institutions or private individuals, should have access to certain basic facts about an investment prior to buying it. The SEC requires public companies to disclose meaningful financial and other information to the public, which provides a common pool of knowledge for all investors to use to judge for themselves if a company's securities are a good investment. Includes the EDGAR database of disclosure documents that public companies are required to file with the Commission. Filings and Forms (EDGAR tutorial), regulatory actions, staff interpretations, investor information, news and public statements, litigation, SEC divisions, info for accountants, broker dealers, EDGAR filers, funds and advisors, municipal markets, and small business. Features SEC headlines.
Security Transfer Agents - Lists transfer agents of public companies. Toll free numbers for transfer agents. The STA is a trade association for "securities transfer processors". It is composed of bank and independent transfer agents (those who perform this record keeping service for various publicly traded companies), and corporate transfer agents who perform the same service for their own corporations. Transferring ownership to acquirers of stocks, bonds and mutual funds, is the primary activity of a transfer agent which also may include the disbursement of dividends and interest, the mailing of Annual and Quarterly Reports, proxy material and security holder communications.
Yahoo: Finance - Quick links to stock information. Several links to various sections: market summary, investing, top stories, financial spotlight, business news, money manager, mutual funds, bill pay, banking loans, insurance, taxes, video from FinanceVision, StockPicks, Featured Segments, NASDAQ price gainers, Personal Finance.