Investments Resources Online

Edited by Peter Y. Chou, WisdomPortal.com

Stock Quotes:
* Barchart.com (Online financial quotes, charts & technical analysis for stock & commodity traders)— http://www.barchart.com/
(Market indices, Market momentum, Quote, Chart, Technicals, Sectors, Opinion, Snapshot, Advanced, Performance, Projections, News, Profile, Report History, Detailed Report)
Big Charts (Charting a World of Investment Information)— http://www.bigcharts.com/
(Quotes; News; Industries; Markets; Historical Quotes; BigReports; Quick Chart; Interactive Charting; Index Watch; Major Market Indexes; MarketPulse; My Favorite Charts)
Big Charts: Compare Stocks Chart— http://www.bigcharts.com/intchart/frames/frames.asp?favorite=list
(Compare two stocks and indicator in one chart with time frame of 1 day to 6 months)
Big Charts: View My Favorite Charts— http://www.bigcharts.com/favorites/edit.asp
(Plot charts of your favorite stocks and compare them up to 10 to a sheet)
* ClearStation— http://www.clearstation.com/
(Focus, Portfolio; Watch List; Recommend; Tag & Bag; Education; Right Edge; Market Diary; The A-List; Market Update; Recommend; Community)
CNN Financial News Stock Quotes— http://cnnfn.com/markets/quotes.html
(Stock or Fund Quote; News: deals, companies, technology, world business, small business, industrywatch, economy, business unusual, biz buzz, lookahead, special reports, news in brief; Market & Investing: personal finance, broker center, US markets, world markets, bonds & rates, currencies; Services: broker, bond, travel centers; Site Search)
411Stocks— http://www.411stocks.com/
(Market Indices; Today's Most Requested Quotes; Market Movers; Rumors; Insider Trades; News Selects; Industries; Calendar: Earnings, Splits, IPO, Financial; Data Sheet for Stocks)
* Historical Quotes (from Yahoo! Finance)— http://chart.yahoo.com/d
(Enter Start & End Dates, Ticker Symbol for historical data of Daily, Weekly, Monthly, or Dividentd Quotes)
Internet Stock Board.com— http://www.internetstockboard.com/
(Stock Picks, IPO Predictions, Portfolio Picks, Stocks of the Month, Real Time Quotes, Daily Market Data, Stock Splits, Quotes & Research, IPO Center, Commentary, Small Cap Stocks, New Investor Tips, Message Boards, Chat Room, Hot Links)
Quote.com— http://www.quote.com/quotecom/stocks/quotes.asp
(Portfolio; Markets; Stocks; Fixed Income; Funds; Options; IPOs; News; Products; Community; Quotes & Symbol Search; Free Tools: LiveCharts, Basic Charts, Broker Research, SEC Filings, Company Snapshot, Basic Analyst Report, Economic Calendar; Subscriber Tools: Real-Time Quotes, Premium News, Adv Company Reports, Analysts Reports from First Call & Zacks, Historical Quotes, Market Downloads; Investor Education)
Stock Consultant: The Online Stock Guru— http://www.stockconsultant.com/consultnow/basic.cgi
(Enter Stock Symbol to get Price & Volume; Indicator on Bullish/Bearish, Overbought/Sold; Trend for month, 3-day, 1-day; Resistance/Support; Detailed Chart; Timing Indicators; Forums)
Stock History (from StockTools.com)— http://www.stocktools.com/market/history.asp
(Enter Ticker Symbol with Start Date for a year of historical stock data: Close, High, Low, Open, Volume)
* StocksAmerica (Powerful research, strategies, analysis, and real time data)— http://www.stocksamerica.net/
(Market Memo, Trendspotter's Opinion on 12 Technical Indicators, Intraday Update, Institutional Holdings, Insider Trading)
Thomson Investors Network— http://www.thomsonrtq.com
(Learn More: Stock & Option Quotes, Options Watch Interactive Charts, Company Reports; News & Research; Message Boards)
Wall Street City (Info on Stocks, Funds, Market News, & Stock Screening Techniques)— http://www.wallstreetcity.com/leaders/stocks_y.asp
(Quotes & Charts; Current News; Market Commentaries; Investor Alert; Top Headlines: Business, Finance, High Tech; Telescan Search for Stocks & Mutual Funds)
Yahoo! Investments: Quotes— http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Finance_and_Investment/News_and_Media/Quotes/
(24 Links; All-in-One Search Tools; Bank Rate Monitors; Currency Exchange Rates; Fee Based; Future & Options; International Markets; Market Indices; Market Summaries; Real-Time)
* Yahoo! Stock Quotes— http://finance.yahoo.com/
(20 minutes delayed quotes, volume, day's & year's range with charts from 1 day to 5 years)
Investment Directories:
International Business Resources on the WWW— http://ciber.bus.msu.edu/busres.htm
(maintained by Center for International Business Education and Research, Michigan State University)
Investorama's Best of the Web— http://www.investorama.com/directory/
(14,000 web links in 240 categories; Directories from Banking to Tax Center)
Lycos Directory: Business— http://dir.lycos.com/Business/Investing/
(28 categories from Brokerages to Women and Investing; Company Research; Investing Chat; Lifeminders; Personal Finance)
Netscape Directory: Investing— http://directory.netscape.com/Business/Investing?cp=nsidircat
(27 categories from Brokerages to Women and Investing; Commodities & Futures; International; Investment Guides; Mutual Funds; Resources; Socially Responsible; Stocks & Bonds)
New York Times: Business Connections (by Rich Meislin: Business, Financial & Investing Resources)— http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/reference/busconn.html
(8 categories: Markets, Investing, Companies, Banking & Finance, Government, Business News & Directories, Miscellany)
The 100 Most Popular Finance Sites (compiled by Go2Net Network)— http://www.100hot.com/directory/business/finance.html
(March 15, 2000: Yahoo Finance, Quote.com, Motley Fool, E*Trade, Nasdaq, Bloomberg Personal, CheckFree Investment Services, Charles Schwab-SchwabNOW, Fidelity Investments, CNN Financial Network)
Yahoo! Finance and Investment— http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Finance_and_Investment/
(43 categories: Banking to Youth Resources; 120 Stock Exchanges links; 348 News & Media links; 151 Reference & Guides)
Investment Web Sites:
Investorama— http://www.investorama.com/
(14,000 Sites Directory, Articles & Archives, Best of the Web, Start to Invest, Online Investing, Retirement Investing, Mutual Funds, Stock PowerSearch, Taxes, Stock Market, Investment Clubs, Building Wealth, Real Estate, Member Tools, Message Boards, Live Chat)
The Motley Fool— http://www.fool.com/
(News & Commentaries, Discussion Boards, Hot Topics, Quotes & Data, Stock Research, Stock Strategies, Stock Talk, Fool's School, Choose a Broker)
Netscape: Personal Finance— http://personalfinance.netscape.com/finance/
(Stock Quotes: DJIA, Nasdaq, S&P 500; Quote Lookup; Investing; Mortgage; Tax; Finance.com; Portfolio Forecaster; Personal Finance; Market News; Real Estate; Small Business; Financial Services; International Business; Venture Capital; My Portfolio)
Bloomberg.com— http://www.bloomberg.com/
(Monitor, Markets, Money, Magazines & Books, Entrepreneur Network, Life, TV, Radio, Charts, Tools, Stock Quotes, Symbol Lookup, Market Snapshot, Commodities, Interest Rates, Mortgage Rates)
Bob Brinker Marketimer Moneytalk— http://www.bobbrinker.com/
(Marketimer: Portfolios, Quotes; Moneytalk: Radio, Internet, Archive, Chat; Discussion: Topics, Search; Educational: Economics, Securities, Mutual Funds, Retirement, Stocks; Favorites: Books, Websites; Resources: B2B Stocks, Conference Calls, Glossary, Currency List; Quotes & Charts)
BuckInvestor.com (The most comprehensive resource for investors under 35)— http://www.buckinvestor.com/
(Article Archives; Stock Quotes; Message Board; Free Newsletter; Investment Basics; Online Investing; The Economy; Careers & Money; Investment Clubs; DRIPs; Millionaires; Humor; Glad You Asked; Stocks; Mutual Funds; Bonds; 401Ks; IRAs; Quick Poll; Get Stock Quotes)
CANSLIM.net (a vital source for CANSLIM stock ideas & info)— http://www.canslim.net/
(CANSLIM is a formula created by William J. O'Neil, founder of Investor's Business Daily. Registeration is free at this site. Featured Stocks, What is CANSLIM?, Knowledge Base, Leaders List, Stocks Breaking New Highs, Company Profiles, Morning Market Commentary, Get Quote, Strategies, FAQ, Webboard)
Fidelity.com— http://www100.fidelity.com:80/
(Quotes & Symbol Lookup; Market Update; Fidelity News; My Fidelity; Annuities & Insurance; Brokerage; Mutual Funds; Retirement; Rollover; Account Services; Tax Center; Peter Lynch Guide to Investing Responsibly)
FinanancialWeb.com (Providing e-financial news, info, tools and services)— http://www.stocktools.com/
(Realtime Quotes, Stocks, Research, Editorial, News, Mutual Funds, Options, Portfolio Tracker, Stock Watcher, E-mail Alerts, Company Profiles, Charts, Screeners, Company Reports, Recommendations, Market Commentary Fund Reports)
Silicon Investor (Smart investors gather here.)— http://www.siliconinvestor.com/
(StockTalk; Market Tools; Market Insight; Customize; Portfolio; Free Register; Hot Subjects; The Latest; Financial News)
TheStreet.com— http://www.thestreet.com/
(Quotes, Markets, Headlines, News & Analysis, Personal Finance, Commentary, Featured Commentators, Message Boards)
TIAA-CREF Web Center— http://www.tiaa-cref.org/
(About TIAA-CREF, Retirement Plans, SRAs,IRAs, Keoghs, Mutual Funds, Personal Annuities, Financial Performance)
Zacks.com (Empowering & Educating the Individual Investor)— http://www.zacks.com/
(Quotes, Charts, News; Profiles; Estimates; Broker Reports; All Reports; Personal Portfolio; Screening; Market Monitor; Mutual Funds; Newsroom; Earnings; Model Portfolios; Current Market Activity; Positive & Negative Surprises; Technology Headlines; Portfolio Tracker with stop loss & price target alerts; Daily E-mail Alerts for stocks in your portfolio)
Investment FAQs:
Investing Basics (The Motley Fools)— http://www.fool.com/school/basics/investingbasics.htm
(Getting Started, Investing Concepts, Stocks, Mutual Funds, Bonds, Analyzing Stocks, Picking a Broker, Keys to Success)
26 Weeks to Investment Success (William O'Neill, chairman & founder of Investor's Business Daily)— http://ibd.infostreet.com/won/list.html
(Great investment tutorials from "What Every Investor Should Know Going In" to "Tales Of Investors' Successes & Failures")
Investor's Corner (35 popular articles from Investor's Business Daily)— http://www.investors.com/invcorner/toc.htm
(How Do I Find Winning Stocks?, Where's The Market Headed?, What Common Investing Pitfalls Should I Watch For?, What Can Technical Indicators Tell Me?)
Basics of Savings & Investing: A Teaching Guide (by NASD: Nasdaq-AMEX Market Group)— http://www.nasd.com/ni_module_menu.html
(Financial Decisions, How Financial Markets Work, Investment Choices, Investment Info, Investment Fraud)
BuckInvestor.com: Investment Basics— http://www.buckinvestor.com/cgi-bin/output/moutput.shtml?957818563521
(Full Archive from Oct. 14, 1998 "Investment Strategies" to May 7, 2000 "Intro to Hedge Funds")
Db's Burrow (Investment & Charting Basics)— http://home.talkcity.com//MoneySt/dbphoenix/DbsBurrow2.htm
(What's A Chart?, Bases, Cups with Handles, Big W, Trendlines, Rectangles, Industry Groups, Demand/Supply, Stalking the Wild Equity)
Education on Stocks Investments (by ClearStation.com)— http://www.clearstation.com/education/cover.shtml
(Trading Basics, Reading Graphs, Trending, Oscillating, Patterns, Portfolio Management, Glossary)
Key Trading 101 (by KeyTrade Online)— http://www.keytradeonline.com/KTU/trading.html
(Fundamentals: Compare the Competition, Sales, Earnings Per Share, Debt to Equity, P/E, Earnings Growth Rate, Analyst Recommendations, Price Range Year to Date, Long Term Debt, Earnings Surprises, Earnings Estimates, Price/Book Ratio, Insider Buying, Shares Outstanding; Technical Facotrs: Stock History, Stock Splits, Stock Price Trend, Index Comparison, Stock's Support/Resistance)
Glossary of Stock Investing Terms— http://search.morningstar.com/se/s97is.dll?Sec=InfoDesk&QueryText=&x=11&y=9
(Definitions from "Accounting Notes" to "Volume" by Morningstar)
Glossary of Financial and Business Terms (New York Times)— http://www.nytimes.com/library/financial/glossary/bfglosa.htm
(Over 2,500 entries compiled by Cambell R. Harvey, J. Paul Sticht Professor of International Business, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University)
Investing in Common Stocks (T. Rowe Price Investment Services)— http://www.troweprice.com/mutual/insights/common.html
(Return on $1 invested in stocks at end of 1925 grew to $2846 by end of 1999)
Quick & Reilly Glossary of Investment Terms— http://www.qronline.com/static/gloss.html
(Investment Glossary from "Account" to "Zero Coupon Bonds")
Taking Stock Scams Off-Line (by Adam Zagorin, Time, March 13, 2000, pp. 60-61)— http://www.time.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,40335,00.html
(Douglas Colt, a 3rd-year law student at Georgetown University, his mother Joanne, and three law-school buddies, scored profits of more than $345,000 in an online scam.)
Why is the S&P 500 so hard to beat? (By Tony Custodio, CBSMarketWatch.com, 1-26-2000)— http://aolpf.marketwatch.com/source/blq/aolpf/archive/20000126/news/current/ira.asp
(Construction of the index; Rocket fuel; Proliferattion of index funds; Closet indexers; Expenses, fees, transaction costs)
Investment Books:
Selected Investment Books (My Book Reviews & Customer Reviews & Ratings from Amazon.com)— http://www.wisdomportal.com/Books/Books-Investments.html
(Learn from the financial experts: Templeton, Buffett, Lynch, O'Neil, Bogle, Neff, Dent, Ellis)
Business & Investing Books (Book Reviews, Customer Reviews, Interviews from Amazon.com)— http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse-books/-/2665/wisdomportalcom
(General Investing, Bonds, Commodities, Futures, Introduction, Mutual Funds, Options, Real Estate, Stocks)
Top-Selling Investment Books (Book Reviews & Customer Reviews from Amazon.com)— http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse-books/-/2669/wisdomportalcom
(Top-100 selling investment books at Amazon.com)
Top-Selling Stocks Books (Book Reviews & Customer Reviews from Amazon.com)— http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse-books/-/2674/wisdomportalcom
(Top-100 selling stocks books at Amazon.com)
Top-Selling Mutual Fund Books (Book Reviews & Customer Reviews from Amazon.com)— http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse-books/-/2671/wisdomportalcom
(Top-93 selling mutual fund books at Amazon.com)
Investment Books at Amazon.com (Book Reviews & Customer Reviews from Amazon.com)— http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/Subject=Investments/wisdomportalcom
(Alphabetical listing of 2594 investment books at Amazon.com)
Investment Magazines:
Bloomberg Personal Finance— http://www.bloomberg.com/personal/ (Mutual Fund Center, Archived issues from Jan/Feb 1997 for subscribers)
Business 2.0 (New Economy, New Rules, New Leaders)— http://www.business2.com/ (Archive: March 1999 to present)
Business Week— http://www.businessweek.com (world's best-selling business magazine)
eCommerce Weekly— http://www.eweekly.com (latest online sales, marketing, and eCommerce strategies)
The Economist— http://www.economist.com (Current Issue, MarketPlace, Classifieds, Help A-Z, Archive)
Fidelity Focus (The Online Magazine for Fidelity's Investors)— http://personal300.fidelity.com/news/focus/ (Cover Story, Your Portfolio, Retirement, Stock Strategy, Tax Strategy, Market Analysis)
Forbes— http://www.forbes.com (Personal Finance, Startups, Companies, E-Business)
Fortune— http://pathfinder.com/fortune/index.html (Smart Managing, Techno file, Small Business, Marketplace)
Inc.— http://www.inc.com (ideas for small-to-midsize growing companies)
Kiplinger Personal Finance— http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/maghome.html
(Business Forecast, Stock Quotes, Top Funds)
Mutual Fund Magazine (Mutual Funds, P.O. Box 60001, Tampa, FL 33660)— http://www.schwabon.com/
(Current Issue, Fund World, Buy-Sell-Hold, Hot Funds, Platinum Funds, Previous Issues)
On Investing (Charles Schwab's Online Magazine)— http://www.schwabon.com/
(Featured Articles: The Basics, Investing, Stocks, Mutual Funds, Retirement)
Technology Investor (Edited by Harry Newton)— http://www.technologyinvestor.com/
(Opening Bid, Tech Stock Gauge, Portfolios, Mutual Funds, Industry Sectors, Investment Tools, Closing Bid)
Worth Online— http://www.worth.com/ (Top Stories, CEO Spotlight, Worth's Investing Online, Complete Jim Rogers Archives, Cover Stories, 250 Richest Towns in America: An Annual Ranking, Complete Peter Lynch Archives, Investing Resources Online, Investor 101, Mortgage Quotes, Smart Consumer, Message Boards)
Investment News:
Barron's Online ($59/year; $29 for print subscribers; Free to WSJ Interactive subscribers)— http://www.barrons.com/
(This Week's Barron's, Company Stories, Market Commentary, Electronic Investing, Mutual Funds, Market Lab, Your Portfolio, Search Archives, Stock Quotes, Weekday Trader, Electronic Q&A, Recent Columns, Today's Markets)
Boston Globe: Business— http://www.boston.com/globe/business
(Latest Business News, Hi-Tech News, Market Watch: Dow, Nasdaq, S&P 500, Columns, Links, Personal Finance)
CBS MarketWatch (Your Eye on the Market)— http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/newsroom.htx
(Quotes, Markets, Futures, Mergers, News Index, News Watch, Personal Finance, Investing: 250,000 research reports, Free Subscriptions, Investing Tools & Data)
CNNfn (the financial network)— http://cnnfn.com/markets/us_markets.html
(Market summary of major indices; Market movers; News; Retirement; Consumer; Small Business; Services; CNNfn on TV; Search)
dbusiness.com (Breaking business news on public, private, and emergent companies)— http://www.dbusiness.com/
(Search companies, Resources, Marketplace, db Tools, db Cities, Venture Tracker, E-mail alert)
Federal Reserve News In Depth (New York Times)— http://www.federalreserve.gov/s-t.htm
(Federal Reserve New Stories Index: 4-11-99 to present; Analysis Articles: 12-4-96 to 2-1-2000; Background of Fed; Biographies of Fed Board Members; Links to 12 Fed Reserve Banks; Speeches; Data & Research; Monetary Policy; Economic Education)
Financial Times— http://www.ft.com (Market View, News & Analysis, Premium Research, Manage Your Portfolio, World Indices Summary, Company & Industry Views)
Internet Stock Report (The One Stop Internet Stock Information Network )— http://www.internetstockreport.com/
(Company Research, Markets, Featured Columns, VC News, Internet Stock List, Financial Headlines, ISDEX Fund, IPO Tracker)
Investor's Business Daily (for people who choose to succeed)— http://www.investors.com/
(Today's Paper, Take a Tour, Learn to Invest Successfully, About Us, Two Weeks Trial Issues Free)
Los Angeles Times: Business— http://www.latimes.com/business/
(Breaking News; Business Today; Inside Business; Today's Markets; Investing Tools; Research: Company profiles, Mutual Fund reports & propectuses, Annual reports; Quotes: price, intraday prices, price history; Investing 101; The Times 100 Rankings)
MSNBC Business— http://www.msnbc.com/news/COM_Front.asp?ta=y
(Quote Lookup, Headlines from Wall Street Journal, Top Stories, International & U.S. News, Small Business, Technology & Telcom, E-Commerce & Media, Personal Finance, Business Blueprint, MSN MoneyCentral Investor)
New York Times: Business— http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/business/
(Markets; DataBank; Your Money; Business Links; Business Glossary; Breaking Business News: Reuters & AP; Market Reports: Stocks, Bonds, Currencies, Commodities; Market Watch; Investing; Personal Business; CEO Roundtables; Federal Reserve)
USA Today: Money— http://www.usatoday.com/money/mfront.htm
(Top News; Bloomberg MarketScoreboard; Wall Street Summary; Stock Quotes; Marketplace; Inside Money: Tech news, IPOs; Investing Tools: Lipper Mutual Fund Prospectuses, Strategy.com's Stock Alerts, Tax Season, Zacks' Investing Research)
Wall Street Journal (annual access: $29 to subscribers; $59 to non-subscribers of WSJ; free two-week trial)— http://info.wsj.com (All the news from The Wall Street Journal— plus 24-hour-a-day updates; Exclusive access to Barron's Online; Personalized online portfolios; In-depth coverage of technology & more.)
Wall Street Journal Highlights (No subscription necessary for access)— http://www.msnbc.com/news/WSJHIGHLIGHTS_Front.asp
(Read highlights from today's Wall Street Journal free from MSNBC web site.)
Washington Post: Business— http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/front.htm
(Markets, Quick Quotes, Market News, Company Research, Mutual Funds, Portfolio, Personal Finance, Columnists, Fast Forward, Tech Thursday, Special Reports, Live Online, Business & Tech Index, Technology Focus)
Investment Newsletters:
Stock & Bond Newsletters (Netscape Search)— http://directory.netscape.com/Business/Investing/Newsletters/Stocks_and_Bonds
(Annotated web links to 70 investment newsletters from AAMES to Young Investor Monthly)
Contrarian's View (Monthly newsletter since July 1986 by Nick Chase)— http://nick.assumption.edu/ContraView.html
(Latest Monthly Issue, Latest Computer Warmline, Stock Quotes, Dow Intraday, S&P 500 Chart, NASDAQ Chart, Fiend SuperBear, e-mail exchange)
Elliot Wave International (Expert Financial Market Forecaster)— http://www.elliottwave.com/
(About EWI; Free Articles; Spotlight; Bob Prechter Q&A for Club Members; Products & Services; Institutional Investors; Education Center; Elliot Wave Interactive; Newsroom; Socionomics; Club EWI)
Fabian.com (Money Maverick Mutual Fund Investment Newsletters)— http://www.fabian.com/
($99.95 for 12 issues; Lemon List; Charts & Trends; About Doug Fabian; Web Resources; Become a Maverick)
Fidelity Focus (Online magazine for Fidelity Investors)— http://personal311ex.fidelity.com/news/focus/
(Cover Story, Retirement Strategies, Stock Strategy, Tax Strategy, Market Analysis, Instant Poll, Overview, Quotes & Fund Prices, Favorite Quotes, Charts, Market News, Indexes, Calendar)
Inger Letter (The Most Current Market Forecasting Report: established 1969)— http://ingerletter.com/
(Gene's Market Views, Free Research, Daily Briefing, Inger Letter, Hotline Info, Inger's Bio, DJIA and S&P Charts)
Internet Investor (Providing the best information on Internet Companies on the Net)— http://www.bull-market.com/internetinvestor.htm
(Free weekly newsletter from The Bull Market Report & StreetAdvisor.com; Archive from Nov. 18, 1999)
Investor Insight (NASD Office of Individual Investor Services)— http://www.nasd.com/pg_section2.html
(Quarterly from Feb. 1997 to June 1999 in text & PDF format)
MarketHistory.com (Historical Market Intelligence)— http://markethistory.com/
(Today's Ideas, U.S. Stocks, Europe & Asia, Forex, Bonds, Energy, Commodities, Features, Portfolio, Trader's Journal, FAQ)
Michael Murphy's Technology Investing (access to subscribers of his newsletter)— http://www.techinvestingonline.com/
(Current Hotline; Current Advice; Market Watch; Tech Investing Portfolio; Flash Bulletin; Growth Flow Universe; Ask Mike; Tech Tips of the Month)
Banks
Bankrate.com (Independent, objective financial information)— http://www.bankrate.com/
(Calculators, Message Boards, Rate Alert, Today's Averages, High Five, Get Rates from 4000 institutions nationwide, Auto loans, Checking/ATM fees, Credit card, Home equity, IRA rates, Money markets, Mortgages, Online Finance, Personal loans, Savings-CDs, Small Business, Tax info, News Archives)
Bank of America— http://www.bankofamerica.com/index.cfm
(Online Banking & Investing, Personal Finance, Inside BOA, Business Services, Gov't Services, Financial Tools)
Chase (The Right Relationship is Everything)— http://www.chase.com/
(Chase Online: Personal, Small Business; Global Capital Markets: Trading & Research; Investor Relations)
Citibank (The rules are changing)— http://www.citibank.com/index.htm
(Online Financial Solutions: bizzed.com, CitiCommerce.com; Personal Financial Services: credit cards, mortgage & loans, investments; Business Financial Solutions)
FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)— http://www.fdic.gov/
(Deposit Insurance; Bank Data; Regulations; Consumers & Communities; Buying From & Selling to FDIC; News; About FDIC)
First Union— http://www.firstunion.com/
(About First Union; PERSONAL FINANCE: Products & Services; Financial Planning: Investing, Home, Retirement, Women's finances, Managing your money, College; BUSINESS FINANCE: Corporate & Institutional: Capital markets, Cash management, Commercial banking, Institutional services, International, Merchant services, Economic info; Small Business: Solutions center, Online advisor, Resource center, Information center)
J. P. Morgan & Co.— http://www.jpmorgan.com/
(About Morgan, Business sites, News, Research, Stockholder Info, Morgan Online, LabMorgan for e-commerce, Annual Report)
Rate.net (Your Financial Connection: the largest & most informative index of financial institutions in the industry)— http://www.rate.net/index.htm
(Tracks 11,000+ financial institutions in 175 markets nationwide; Analyzes interest rate performance & financial stability; Click Icon for Best Rates in Your Area: Savings, Mortgage, Auto/Equity, Jumbo CDs;,Credit Cards)
Wells Fargo— http://www.wellsfargo.com/
(Personal Finance: checking & savings, credit cards, home equity loans, home mortgage, insurance, investing, loans & credit lines, money market, online banking, retirement planning, tax help center; Small Business: business gateway, credit & deposit accounts, merchant & payroll services, resources, retirement plans; Commercial Banking: business financing, industry-specific solutions, institutional investments, international trade, newsletters, personal wealth management, real estate; About Wells Fargo)
The World Bank Group (Our Dream is a World Free of Poverty)— http://www.worldbank.org/
(Bank at Work: About Us, Regions & Countries, Topics & Sectors, Operations, Research; Resources: News, Speeches, Publications, E-Newsletters, Data & Maps, For Schools; Partners: Development Forum, NGO & Civil Society, Business & Private Sector, For Bond Investors, Related Institutions & Links; Index)
Brokerages
A. G. Edwards (Investments since 1887)— http://www.agedwards.com/
(AGE Market Monitor, Monthly Buy List, Client Account Access, Quotes, Big Money Adventure, What's New, Research Reports, Investment Strategies, Calculators, About A.G. Edwards, Investment Banking, Branch & Seminar Locations, Tool Kit)
Ameritrade (Believe in Yourself)— http://www.ameritrade.com/
(Ameritrade Index; Compare Us; Demo; About Us; About Investing: Education Center, Darwin: CD Options trading; Articles; Up-to-the-minute Market Summaries; Research Tools; Customizable Charts; Report & Alert Services; Free Real-Time Quotes)
Datek Online (The rules are changing)— http://www.datek.com
(Getting Started, Learning Center, Market News, Helpdesk, Datek News, Quotes & Charts, Market Summary, Extended Trading Hours 8 am-8 pm)
DLJdirect (A Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Company)— http://www.dljdirect.com/
(Portfolio; Trading; Markets; Quotes & News; Research; Customer Service; Charts & Indices; Winners & Losers; DLJ's Best Ideas for 2000; Volatile Markets; Company Digest; Investor's Quarterly; Getting Started; Selected News Stories; Common Questions; IPO Center; DLJ Research; Multi-Platform Access; DLJdirect UK & Japan; Wireless Center)
Dreyfus Brokerage Services— http://www.tradepbs.com/
(Market Info: Get Quotes, Market Watch, Investment Data, eSignal, CBS MarketWatch, Thomson I-Watch; Research: BigCarts, Zacks Reports, News Alert; Customers: Account Status, Place a Trade, Track Your Portfolio, Extended Trading Hours, Mutual Fund Gallery, Customer Support, Wireless Trading; Visitor's Center: About DBS, Demo, Visitor Portfolio, Investor Education)
E*Trade— http://www.etrade.com/
(Portfolios; Markets; Quotes & Research; Trading; Account Services; Market Watch; Today's Stories; E*Trade Highlights; Inside E*Trade; Investing: Stocks & Options, IPOs, Mutual Funds, Bonds, Power E*Trade, Knowledge Center; Financial Services: Banking, Retirement, Real Estate, Insurance, Taxes; Community: The Hub, Discussion Groups, Chat, Live Events; Marketplace: Travel Center, Bookstore, E*Trade Visa)
Fidelity Investments: Brokerage— http://personal100.fidelity.com/
(Powerstreet; My Fidelity; Accounts & Trades; News & Quotes; Research; Retirement; Planning; Products; Lehman Brothers Research & Stock Picks; Open My Account; Set Up My Fidelity Page)
Freetrade.com (The Ultimate Discount Broker)— http://www.freetrade.com/
(Freetrade.com is a broker/dealer and a wholly owned subsidiary of Ameritrade Holding Corp. $0 commission on Internet equity market orders; $5 for limit, stop, and odd-lot orders. Not available currently: Short Sales, Options, Mutual Funds, Bonds, Bulletin Board Stocks, Extended Hours Trading)
Goldman Sachs— http://www.gs.com/
(About Us, News, Careers, Businesses, Shareholders, Features, Press Release, Prime Brokerage, Quick Access Shortcuts)
Merrill Lynch— http://www.ml.com/
(Investor Info; Market Commentary; Market Pulse; Search; Spotlight; Quotes & Symbol Lookup; Latest Research; Market Watch; Global Investor Network: Merrill Lynch Experts' Daily Market Insights & Investment Intelligence; ML World Business Report; Business Center; Merrill Lynch Forum; Executive Commentary; Press Releases; Reporters' Resource)
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Online— http://www.online.msdw.com/
(What We Offer, Demos, Tools & Resources, Investment Basics, Corportate Info, Today's Market, Industry Stock Analyzer, Analyst Research, Mutual Fund Center)
Paine Webber— http://www.painewebber.com/
(Research, Quick Access, Mutual Funds, Market Snapshot, Portfolio Tracker, Individual Investor Services, Institutional & Corporate Services, Shareholder Info, Press Room, Online Seminars, Compare CD Rates)
Salomon Smith Barney— http://www.smithbarney.com/
(Getting Started; Trading Online; Watch List; Quotes; Research: Up/Downgrades; Marketwatch; Daily Market Commentaries; Investor Education; Search/Sitemap; Branches & Seminars; Career Center; Your Portfolio; Investment Ideas: Online Newsletter, Salomon Smith Barney Research; Financial Planning: Roth vs Traditional IRA, Loan & Mortgages; Products & Services: Stocks, Bonds, Mutual Funds; Corporate & Institutional Services; Online Trading; Global Research; In the News)
Charles Schwab— http://www.schwab.com
(Quotes & Charts; Market Summary; Featured Articles; Live Events; Accounts & Services; Investments; Mutual Funds; Research; Stock Analyzer; College, Estate, Tax, & Retirement Planning, Investment Advisors, Active Trading, Learning Center)
Waterhouse Securities— http://www.waterhouse.com/
(About TD Waterhouse, Compare Our Price, Free Quotes & Charts, Investor Education, Free Research, Market Summary, Personalized Quote List)
WR Hambrecht+Co— http://www.wrhambrecht.com/
(Brokerage: Open Acc't, FAQ, Fee Schedule, Investor Resources; Offerings: Open IPO, Traditional, Private Investments; Research: WRH+Co Indexes, IPO Center, eLetters, News+Commentary, My Portfolio, Stock Screener; WRH+Co: Investment Banking, Press Releases, Articles, WRH+Co Team; Institutional Offerings)
Companies Information
Dow Jones Industrial Average Companies— http://www.metamoney.com/cgi-bin/wMulti.cgi?list=djia
(30 DJIA companies listed alphabetically from Allied Signal Inc to Walt Disney Company; Web Links to: Stock quote/chart from BigCharts, Company news from Lycos, 5-year income profile from Zacks, and Hoovers Company Capsule)
EDGAR Database of Corporate Information— http://www.sec.gov/edgarhp.htm
(EDGAR Database, Master Indices, Tools & Utilities, News About EDGAR, About SEC, Investor Assistance & Complaints, SEC Digest, SEC Rulemaking, Enforcement Division, Small Business Info, Other Web Sites)
Hoover's Online— http://www.hoovers.com/
(Phone Numbers, Fax Numbers, and Mailing Addresses of 14,000+ Companies)
Thomas Register of American Manufacturers (free access after registration)— http://www.thomasregister.com/
(156,914 companies; 133,415 brand names; 7,782 online supplier catalogs & web links)
Web100: Big Business on the Web— http://metamoney.com/w100/
(Top U.S. Companies on the Web; USWeb100 by Industry; Global Web100; DJIA Companies; S&P 100 Companies; S&P 500 Companies; Newswire on Companies & Investing)
Commodities & Futures
Lycos Directory: Commodities & Futures— http://dir.lycos.com/Business/Investing/Commodities%2C_Futures/
(10 Categories: Precious Metals, Advisory Services, Associations, Brokerages, Directories, Education & Training, Exchanges, Forex, Quotes & Charts, Trading Systems; Clubs; Chat; Message Boards; Market Analysis; Web Links; 22 Commodities Books)
Netscape Search Category: Commodities & Futures— http://directory.netscape.com/Business/Investing/Commodities%2c_Futures
(11 Categories: Precious Metals, Advisory Services, Associations, Brokerages, Directories, Education & Training, Exchanges, Forex, Newsletters, Quotes & Charts, Trading Systems; 10 Web Links)
Commodity Traders Club (Commodity Futures Trading & Investor's Knowledge Network)— http://www.webtrading.com/
(Become a Member; Tapes & Courses; Catalog; Newsletter; Sample Issue; Back Issues; Info Search; Free Special Reports)
Gold Discusssion for Investors & Market Analysts (by Kitco. Inc., 178 West Service Rd., Champlain, NY, 12919; Toll Free 1-877-775-4826)— http://www.kitcomm.com/cgi-bin/comments/gold/display_short.cgi
(Spot prices for Precious Metals: Gold, Silver, Platinum, Palladium, Rhodium & Message Board Discussions)
Historic Futures Data (TurtleTrader.com)— http://www.turtletrader.com/hpd.html
(58 megabytes of free historic futures data dating back to the 1970s; Daily data in ASCII format; Files in .zip format)
International Finance & Commodities Institute (Non-profit foundation created 1984, in Park Battelle, Geneva, Switzerland)— http://finance.wat.ch/IFCI/
(Conference & Seminars; Education & Training; Finance-Related Articles; IFCI Organizational Info; Scope of Activity)
Metal Prices: Hot Links— http://www.pleo.com/bcwire/metal.htm
(COMEX Copper, London Metal Exchange, Australian Resource Network, Dicksons Ltd, American Metal Market, Metal Bulletin, World Commodities)
Currencies
Thomson Real Time Quotes: Currency— http://rtq.thomsoninvest.net/indices/currency.sht
(Currency quotes for last trade, annual high & low: British £, Canadian $, Japanese ¥en, European Monetary, Mexican Peso)
Yahoo! Finance: Currency Conversion— http://finance.yahoo.com/m3?u
(Currency table: US$, Australian$, U.K.£, Canadian$, DeutschMark, FrenchFranc, Japanese ¥en, SwissFranc, Euro)
Classic 164 Currency Converter (by OANDA, Inc.)— http://www.oanda.com/converter/classic
(Convert one currency to another; Historical currency table; Interactive daily table; Currency news; Currency forecasts)
Japanese Yen Trading Report (by Dave Green & Webtrading Co., Jan. 20, 2000)— http://www.webtrading.com/specyen.htm
(Commodity Traders Club News from The Commodity Futures Knowledge Network)
Investment Mentors:
Fidelity's Guide to Investing Responsibly (by Peter S. Lynch, Vice Chairman, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Sept. 1999)— http://www100.fidelity.com:80/brochure/brochure.html
(You're Ultimately Responsible, Understand the Market, Build a Long Term Plan, Choosing Stocks & Funds, Fidelity Products & Services, Working with Fidelity)
Peter Lynch on recent market volatility (Q&A with Peter S. Lynch, April 4, 2000)— http://personal400.fidelity.com/global/whatsnew/content/101008.html
(Q&A on the market volatility of the Nasdaq Composite Index, Dow versus Nasdaq, Diversification, Long-term investing)
Bogle Financial Markets Research Center (established January 1, 2000)— http://www.vanguard.com/bogle_site/bogle_home.html
(Since stepping down as CEO of Vanguard Group in 1996, J ohn C. Bogle has been researching the markets, writing, and speaking out on behalf of mutual fund investors. You'll find Bogle's speeches, biography, and books by and about Mr. Bogle.)
Vanguard— Child of Fortune (by John C. Bogle, founder of The Vanguard Group)— http://www.vanguard.com/bogle_site/january312000.html
(Remarks at The Pennsylvania Partnership for Economic Education, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, January 31, 2000)
Investing in the New Millennium: The Bagel and the Doughnut (by John C. Bogle, founder of The Vanguard Group)— http://www.vanguard.com/bogle_site/bogle_speechesnewmillen.html
(Remarks before the Sunday Breakfast Club of Philadelphia, January 5, 2000)
Human Beings: Essential Link in the Service-Profit Chain (by John C. Bogle, founder of The Vanguard Group)— http://www.vanguard.com/bogle_site/bogle_speecheshuman.html
(Remarks at Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts, December 7, 1999)
Index Funds as the 25th Anniversary Year Begins (by John C. Bogle, founder of The Vanguard Group)— http://www.vanguard.com/bogle_site/bogle_speechesindex.html
(Keynote Speech at The Fourth Annual Superbowl of Indexing, December 5, 1999)
Equity Fund Selection: The Needle or the Haystack? (by John C. Bogle, founder of The Vanguard Group)— http://www.vanguard.com/bogle_site/bogle_speechesequity.html
(Remarks before the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Association of Individual Investors, Philadelphia, PA, Nov. 23, 1999)
To Beat the Market, Hire a Philosopher (by Edward Wyatt, New York Times, Jan. 10, 1999)— http://www.nytimes.com/library/financial/011099mutfund-overview.html
(In each of the last eight years, the $6 billion Legg Mason Value Trust managed by William H. Miller III, has outperformed the S&P 500-stock index. Since the beginning of the 90s, the fund's shareholders have seen their investment grow by 453%, or 20.9% a year, on average— well ahead of the 17.8% annual return of the S&P.)
The World According to Peter Lynch (by Jon Friedman, CBS MarketWatch, March 3, 2000)— http://cbs.marketwatch.com/archive/20000303/news/current/friedman.htx?source=htx/http2_mw
(Lynch's Fidelity Magellan, FMAGX, expanded from $20 million when he took it over in 1977 to $14 billion when he retired in 1990. During that span, Lynch outperformed the S&P 500 by an average of 13% a year.)
Buffet vs. Bogle: Greatest 20th Century Investors (by Dunstan Prial, Associated Press)— http://abcnews.go.com/sections/business/DailyNews/fundlist_991126.html
(Buffett showed that an individual investor using discipline and patience can outperform the broader market. Bogle, on the other hand, said individual investors should join the markets rather than try to beat them.)
Warren Buffet's Mentor (BuckInvestor.com, April 5, 1999)— http://dev.buckinvestor.com/Investment_Basics/printmentor.html
(Most agree that Buffet is the world's greatest investor. His holding company Berkshire Hathaway had a market capitalization of $22 million in 1964. Now, Berkshire is worth nearly $115 billion in 1999. So who did Warren Buffet learn from as he began his business ventures and investing career? It was Benjamin Graham, who many consider the dean of financial analysis.)
The Essays of Warren Buffet: Lessons for Corporate America (by Lawrence A. Cunningham, 1998)— http://www.strategy-business.com/books/98412/
(Stuart Crainer's book review of Buffet's letters as chairman & CEO to his shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway, whose stock was $19.46 in 1964 and $25,488 in 1997)
Three little words (by Subrata N. Chakravarty, Forbes, April 6, 1998)— http://www.forbes.com/forbesglobal/98/0406/0101080a.htm
(Interview with Lawrence A. Cunningham, author of The Essays of Warren Buffet: Lessons for Corporate America)
Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letters by Warren Buffet (1997-1999)— http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/letters.html
(Legendary investor Warren Buffet shares his investing wisdom with his shareholders in his Berkshire Hathaway annual reports)
Buffet in Buffalo (by John Henry, Columbia Journalism Review, Nov/Dec 1998)— http://www.cjr.org/year/98/6/buffett.asp
(Buffet, America's second-richest man is also a press lord. His Berkshire Hathaway holding company owns 17% of The Washington Post, and is the tenth-largest shareholder in Gannett. The one journalistic outlet that Buffet owns outright is The Buffalo News in upstate New York.)
Indicators Database:
Index Components (Moby Data Index)— http://www.mobydata.com/comp.htm
(65 Indices with stock symbol and links listed alphabetically)
Bloomberg.com: World Indices— http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/wei.html
(North/Latin America: DJIA, S&P 500, NASDAQ, TSE 300, MEXBOL, Brazil BOVESPA; Europe/Africa: Bloomberg Euro-500, FT-SE, CAC 40, DAX, IBEX, Milan MIB30, Bel20, AEX, Swiss Market Index; Asia/Pacific: Nikkei, Hang Seng, Asx, Sing)
CNBC.com: Top Indexes— March 15, 2000:
(DJIA, DJTA, DJUA, S&P 500, S&P 100, S&P Midcap 400, Nasdaq 100, Nasdaq Composite, Major Market Index-FLEX, AMEX, Russell 1000, Russell 2000, Wilshire Small Cap, S&P Barra Growth, S&P Barra Value)
Yahoo! Finance: Major World Indices— http://finance.yahoo.com/m2?u
(Name, Symbol, Last Trade, Change, Chart, News of World Stock Indices— Americas; Asia/Pacific; Europe; Africa/Middle East)
AdMarket 50 (Advertising Age magazine & Money.com)— http://www.money.com/money/adage/admarket50/
(Stocks of 50 leading ad agencies, advertisers, and media companies selected by Advertising Age & tracked by Money.com)
DJIA Monthly Close (1945-2000) (Applied Reasoning, Inc., Decatur, Alabama)— http://www.neatideas.com/data/data/djiaM.htm
(DJIA monthly close from 153.7 in Jan. 1945 to 10940.53 in Jan. 2000)
Dow 30 Stocks (Bloomberg.com)— http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/dow30.html
(Alphabetical listing of 30 Dow stocks: Current price, Change, % Change, Volume for the day)
Economics & Business Data (Applied Reasoning, Inc., Decatur, Alabama)— http://www.forecasts.org/data/mainmenu1.htm
(Business Data, Banking Data, Consumer Price Indices, Interest Rates, Prices, Exchange Rates, Employment & Compensation Data, Monetary Data, Banking Reserves, GDP & Components, Federal, State, & Local Government, Producer Price Indices, Regional Data, U.S. Population Data, Weekly Data Series)
Financial Data Finder A-Z (Dept. of Finance, Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University)— http://www.cob.ohio-state.edu/dept/fin/fdf/osudata.htm
(Annotated links to financial data alphabetized from Advanced Portfolio Technologies to Zacks Investment Research)
Financial Data Finder: Search (Dept. of Finance, Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University)— http://www.cob.ohio-state.edu/dept/fin/osudata.htm
(Search Info Category: Banks to Venture Capital; Search Info Type: Historical Data, Links, News, Quotes, Reports, Research, Software)
Internet Index (Goldman Sachs)— http://cbs.marketwatch.com/data/dbcfiles/gstinett.htx?source=htx/http2_mw
(_IIX.X: 17 stocks of Internet companies from Amazon.com to Yahoo! compiled by Goldman Sachs)
Monthly U.S. Stock Indices (Applied Reasoning, Inc., Decatur, Alabama)— http://www.forecasts.org/data/indexusmenu.htm
(Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500, S&P 500 Total Returns, S&P 100, NYSE Composite, NASDAQ Composite, Dow Jones Composite, Dow Jones Transports, Dow Jones Utilities, S&P MidCap 400, S&P SmallCap 600, Russell 1000, Russell 2000, Russell 3000, Wilshire 5000,Value Line)
Philadelphia Semiconductor Index ($SOX) (CBSMarketWatch.com)— http://aolpf2.marketwatch.com/data/dbcfiles/phlxsemit.htx?source=blq/aolpf
(Alphabetical listing of 16 semiconductor stocks & Index: Last price, Change, % Change, High, Low, Volume for the day)
Russell Indexes— http://www.russell.com/us/indexes/us/membership/default.asp
(Frank Russell Company produces a family of 18 U.S. equity indexes. The indexes are market cap-weighted and include only common stocks domiciled in the United States and its territories. All indexes are subsets of the Russell 3000� Index, which represents approximately 98% of the investable U.S. equity market.)
Russell 3000, 2000, 1000 Indexes— http://www.russell.com/us/indexes/us/membership/default.asp
(Russell 3000— representing the broad market; Russell 2000— representing small-cap stocks; Russell 1000— representing large-cap stocks; list of companies with stock symbol in Acrobat PDF files)
Search for Historical Quotes ($14.99 US for a 12-month subscription to Market Data Source)— http://www.mdshistoricalquotes.com/SearchData/List.ASP?
(Alphabetical list of current historical quote files at MDS: AMEX Advancing Issues to Wilshire Small Cap Index)
S&P 500 Index (Standard & Poor's Index Services)— http://www.spglobal.com/a_500alpha_a.html
(Alphabetical listing of 500 stocks in the S&P 500 Index with stock symbol & brief description of company)
S&P 500 Index: Alphabetical by companies (Standard & Poor's Index Services)— http://www.spglobal.com/ssindexmain500text.html
(Alphabetical listing of 500 stocks in the S&P 500 Index with stock symbol & industry sector classification)
S&P 500 Index: Alphabetical by Industry Sectors (Standard & Poor's Index Services)— http://www.spglobal.com/ssindexmain500ind.html
(Listing of 500 stocks in the S&P 500 Index with stock symbols arranged alphabetically by inndustry sectors)
S&P 500 Index: Historical Stock Data (StockWiz)— http://kumo.swcp.com/stocks/
(A year of historical data on the S&P 500 stocks to those interested in technical analysis)
Standard & Poor's 500 Index Calculation (by Cool Fire Technology)— http://www.cftech.com/BrainBank/FINANCE/SandPIndexCalc.html
(Index Calculation, Total Return Calculation, Index Maintenance, Divisor Analysis, Share Changes, Criteria For Changes, Guidelines For Adding Stocks, Guidelines For Removing Stocks, S&P/BARRA, Comparative Analysis)
TOPIX (Tokyo Stock Price Index)— http://www.tse.or.jp/EHISTIDX/index.html
(Charts from Jan. 4, 1968 to present)
IPOs— Initial Public Offerings:
The ABCs of IPOs (by Yi-Hsin Chang, Motley Fool, 3-16-99)— http://www.fool.com/specials/1999/sp990316aboutipos.htm
(Three articles: ABCs of IPOs, How to get in on an IPO, Unconventional IPOs)
IPO Express (powered by Edgar Online)— http://www.edgar-online.com/ipoexpress/
(IPO Headlilnes, Latest & Upcoming Pricings, Latest Filings, Quiet & Lockup Period, Bull/Bear Rankings, International IPOs, Postponements, Withdrawals, By Underwriter, By Industry, By State, IPO Performance, IPO Profilere, Search for IPOs)
IPO Central (Hoover's Online: Money)— http://www.hoovers.com/ipo/0,1334,23,00.html
(Today's Debuts, IPOs on Deck, Latest Pricings, Latest Filings, View IPOs, IPO Scorecard, Beginner's Guide, Top IPO News, IPO Alert, IPO Hot Chili Rating, Email IPO Update)
IPOs Resources (by Ivo Welch, Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA)— http://www.iporesources.org/
(Investing in IPOs for Small Retail Investors; Directory of IPO services & advisors; IPO Discussion Bulletin Board; IPOs List with Industry & Market Cap Info 1994-1999; IPO Activity 1970-1998; IPO Runups 1993-1999; Commercial & Non-Profit IPO Resources; IPO Database; Press Releases; Amateurs Beware; Internet Madness)
IPO Spotlight Report (Report is broadcast Monday to Friday)— http://www.ipospotlight.com/
(Current registration of 200 IPOs; Monthly Subscription: $40 by Fax, $30 by E-mail; 1 Year Subscription Discounts Available)
Oh, IPO! How Low Can You Go? (Hoovers' IPO Report 4-14-2000)— http://www.hoovers.com/feature/block/detail/0,2417,23_2340,00.html
(In the recent market shakeout, many IPO casualties tumbled over 80% from their highs)
Top U.S. IPOs Show Profits Matter (by David Wilson, Bloomberg News, April 18, 2000)— http://www.bloomberg.com/feature.html
(Only one of the 10 companies whose shares had the biggest % gains in their market debuts is making money. Foundry Networks gained 8.5% but VA Linux lost 85%, theglobe.com lost 92%, MarketWatch.com lost 81%)
AT&T Set to Launch Record IPO (by Kevin Max, New York Times, 4-26-2000)— http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/financial/26tsc-awe.html
(By Wednesday, the wireless tracking stock, AT&T Wireless, ticker symbol, AWE, was oversubscribed by a 2- to-1 ratio in the price range of $26 to $32, meaning there were twice as many buyers in that range as the 360 million shares being offered. The shares were priced at $29.50 after the market had closed on Wednesday, April 26.)
AT&T wireless IPO prices at $29.50 a share (by Darby Mullany, CNBC, April 26, 2000)— http://www.msnbc.com/news/281551.asp
(AT&T Wireless Group priced its IPO at $29.50 per share on Wednesday, raking in a hefty $10.62 billion for its parent AT&T Corp. While the IPO is expected to be the biggest in U.S. history— it is not expecting to have stratospheric gains on its first day.)
As AT&T Wireless unit sets IPO, employees scramble to cash in (by Rebecca Blumenstein, Wall Street Journal, April 26, 2000)— http://www.msnbc.com/news/399831.asp?cp1=1
(Thousands of AT&T employees are loading up on debt and cashing in their chips to raise money to buy into the company1s historic IPO. AT&T will sell 360 million shares in its red-hot wireless unit, at initial prices expected to raise about $13.2 billion. The new issue will be a so-called tracking stock, which will in theory reflect the performance of AT&T1s wireless operations.)
Market History:
Global Financial Data (784 Fremont Villas, Los Angeles, CA 90042)— http://www.globalfindata.com/
(Current and Historical Data for the United States and over 150 countries, including Stock Markets from 1690, Exchange Rates from 1590, Interest Rates from 1700, Commodities from 1500 and Inflation from 1264)
Stock Market History: a primer (by Lorene Yue, Detroit Free Press, Feb. 7, 2000)— http://www.freep.com/business/market7_20000207.htm
(History of New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq, Stock indexes, DJIA, S&P, Russell, Wilshire, Index Investing)
The Crash of 1929 (Floyd Norris, New York Times)— http://www.nytimes.com/library/financial/index-1929-crash.html
(New York Times' coverage of the 1929 stock market collapse: Monday, 10-28-1929 to Friday, 11-1-1929)
The Stock Market Crash of 1929 (ValuationStreet.com)— http://www.valuationstreet.com/crash29.html
(Brief summary of the 1929 market crash with charts of DJIA: 1923-1932 & DJIA: Aug. 29-Dec. 29)
Dizzy Stock Plunge Halts as Strong Interests Buy; Klein, On Radio, Reassures (Washington Post, Oct. 30, 1929)— http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/longterm/biztalk/grasso1/102929.htm
(16,410,000-Share Market Shatters All Trading Records on Street; Support Announced By Morgan Partner; Big Corporations Start Purchasing; Midafternoon Rally Cuts Some Losses and Credit Stress Is Eased)
Stock Market Suffers Largest Loss In History As Dow Industrial Average Drops 508 Points (Washington Post, Oct. 20, 1987)— http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/longterm/biztalk/grasso1/101987-1.htm
(The stock market was devastated by the worst one-day collapse in history yesterday in a pandemonium of panic selling that shattered all records and swamped stock exchanges around the country and overseas. The Dow closed at 1738, dropping 22.6%, or nearly double the 12.8%plunge of Oct. 29, 1929, the crash that began the Great Depression. More than 604 million shares were traded on the New York Stock Exchange and 239 million on the American and over-the-counter markets, shattering previous records. Investors lost more than $500 billion in stock market value, according to Wilshire Associates of Los Angeles, which publishes an index of some 6,000 publicly traded stocks.)
New York Times Headlines on the Stock Market of 1929 (Prof. Mark Underwood, University of Kentucky)— http://sac.uky.edu/~msunde00/hon202/p4/nyt.html
(Collections of NY Times headlines from July 3, 1929 to Dec. 19, 1929 on the stock market. Would you invested in stocks based on these news?)
The Stock Market Crashes of 1929 and1987 (Tracy Yee, student project at University of Melbourne, Australia)— http://www.arts.unimelb.edu.au/amu/ucr/student/1997/Yee/1987.htm
(1929 Stock Market Crash, 1987 Stock Market Crash, Will the market crash again?, Glossary, Bibliography, 1987 S&P 500 Charts)
What caused the market crash of 1987? (Buckinvestor.com, March 13, 2000)— http://dev.buckinvestor.com/Glad_You_Asked/crash.shtml
("Black Monday," October 19, 1987 had the largest stock market drop in Wall Street history with the DJIA plunging 508.32 points, or a loss of 22.6%. That decline far surpassed the one-day loss of 12.9% that started the stock market crash of 1929 leading to the Great Depression.)
Charts of Stock Market Crash of 1987 (Lowrisk Market Analytics & Jeff Walker, Oct. 1997)— http://www.lowrisk.com/crash/crashcharts.htm
(1987 Charts by Month, Week, Day)
Mutual Funds
About.com: Mutual Funds (edited by Marlene Dziegelseski)— http://mutualfunds.about.com/finance/mutualfunds/
(How to Choose a Mutual Fund, Resource Center, Today's News, Best/Worst Funds, Fund Families, Fund Fees, Glossaries, Money Market Funds, Mutual Funds 101, Newsletters, Quotes, Research, Roth IRA, Taxes, Links)
CBS MarketWatch: Mutual Fund Center— http://cbs.marketwatch.com/funds/mf_center.htx
(Fund Quote; Fund Profile; Fund Prospectus; Fund News; Fund Research; Fund Sites; Fund Discussion Group; Fund Tracker; Tools & Features)
Fabian Lemon List— http://www.fabianlive.com/lemonlist.html
(Doug Fabian measures mutual funds against its Lipper peer group benchmark. Funds that underperform the 1-year average by more than 25% are designated as lemons and should be sold immediately. Search to see if your fund is a lemon.)
Fidelity Mutual Funds— http://personal300.fidelity.com:80/products/funds/
(Fidelity Funds, FundsNetwork Funds, Prospectuses, Shareholder Reports & Fund Analysis, Bond Funds, Mutual Fund Guide, Mutual Fund Spotlight, Compare funds with Fund Evaluator, Mutual Fund Tools, Access My Account, Open an Account)
Fidelity Funds— http://personal300.fidelity.com:80/products/funds/content/fidelity.html
(Find a Fund by Name & by Category: Growth, Growth & Income, International, Selcect Portfolios, Index Funds, Bond Funds, Money Market Funds; Fidelity Fund Prices; Quarterly Fund Performance; Fund Distribution Info; 529 College Investment Plans; Fidelity FundVideo; Fidelity Focus)
Morningstar.com (Your first second opinion)— http://www.morningstar.com/
(Quotes & Reports, Stock Selector, Fund Selector, Most Popular Reports, Tool Box, Products, Newswire, Fund Spy, Milling on the Markets, Reuters Market Update, Morningstar Analyses, Conversations, Stock & Fund Lists of Biggest Gainers & Losers, Top Stock & Fund Conversations, Today in Funds & Stocks, Articles from past 7 days, Article Archive, E-Mail Alerts)
Mutual Fund Checklist (by Doug Gerlach Investorama, Feb. 25, 2000)— http://www.investorama.com/story/start/20000225T0101
(Six step checklist on selecting a mutual fund)
TIAA-CREF Mutual Funds— http://www.tiaa-cref.org/mfs/index.html
(Fund Choices: Growth & Income, Equity Index, International Equity, Growth Equity, Managed Allocation, Social Choice Equity, Bond Plus, High-Yield Bond, Money Market; Reports; Financial Performance)
Top-100 Most Viewed Individual Funds (CBS Marketwatch)— http://funds.marketwatch.com:80/top_families.phtml
(Firsthand Tech Value, Janus Global Tech, Janus Worldwide, Fidelity Growth, Janus Twenty X, Janus Fund, Fidelity Select Electronics, Vanguard 500 Index, Janus Mercury, PBHG: Tech & Communications)
Top 100 SuperStar Funds (CBS Marketwatch)— http://funds.marketwatch.com:80/ss100.phtml
(The SuperStar 100 Index is a consensus directory of the top 100 mutual funds, the best-of-the-best, selected from a database of 10,000 funds. These 100 funds are screened from 150 "best funds" lists independently prepared by industry experts and published in America's leading financial periodicals. Funds arranged alphabetically in groups: Growth, Aggressive Growth, Sector, Global, Hybrid, Index, Bond)
Top 50 Technology Mutual Funds (Technology Investor, March 2000)— http://www.technologyinvestor.com/mutual%20funds%20february.html
(Nicholas-Apple GlbTech I, Home State Year 2000, PBHG Technology & Common, Firsthand Technology Value, Monument Internet A, First American Technology A, Waddell & Reed Sci & Tech B, Van Wagoner Technology)
Vanguard Group— http://www.vanguard.com/
(Fund Watch; Market Highlights; Top Stories; Recent Stories; News Archive; Tax Center; Prices & Performance; Online Planner; Retirement Center; Forms & Brochures; Financial Planning; Investment Advisers; Bogle Research Center; Brokerage Services)
August 31, 2001: Vanguard 500 Index Fund Reaches 25-Year Milestone— http://www.vanguard.com/cgi-bin/pressroom/PRShow?PR=999275163&RGN=PROD
(Since inception, Vanguard 500 Index Fund gained 14.05% compared to 13.84% for the average general equity fund)
Yahoo! Busines & Economy: Mutual Funds— http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Companies/Financial_Services/Investment_Services/Mutual_Funds/
(Brokerages, Consulting, Fund Families, Hedge Funds, Individual Funds, News & Quotes; Newsletters, Organizations, Reference & Guides, Screeners, Socially Responsible Funds, Usenet)
Yahoo! Finance: Mutual Funds— http://finance.yahoo.com/f0?u
(Top Performers; Prospectus Finder; Reference; Mutual Fund News; Mutual Fund Screener; Fund Message Board; Fund Quotes; Symbol Lookup; Fund Web Sites; Latest Mutual Fund News)
Organizations:
AAII (American Association of Individual Investors)— http://www.aaii.org/
(Member Log In, Education, Tools, Publications, Community, Events, Special Reports, Investment Pathways, Resources)
Dow Jones— http://dowjones.wsj.com/p/main.html
(Quotes, Industries, Markets, Economy, Personal Finance, Lighter Side, Directories & Maps, Wall Street Journal, Barron's)
Federal Reserve (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System)— http://www.federalreserve.gov/
(General Info, Press Releases, Testimony & Speeches, Monetary Policy, Banking System, Regulation & Supervision, Research & Data, Consumer Info, Community Affairs, Reporting Forms, Publications, Breaking News, FAQ, Speech by Alan Greenspan)
SEC (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission)— http://www.sec.gov/
(About SEC, Current News, Investor Assistance & Complaints, EDGAR Database, SEC Digest, Small Business, Web Links)
Standard & Poor's— http://www.sandp.com/
(Capital Markets Services, Fund Services, Investment Services, Ratings Services, Research Services)
FEAS (Federation of Euro-Asian Stock Exchanges)— http://www.feas.org/
(Federation Members, Calendar, Newsletter, Past Meetings & Events, Management Organization, Charter & Mission, History)
FIBV (International Federation of Stock Exchanges)— http://www.feas.org/
(Members, Members Market, Statistics, Trading Halts, Other Markets, Exchange Data, Newsletter, Publications, Links, Search)
U. S. Stock Exchanges:
NYSE (New York Stock Exchange)— http://www.nyse.com/
(About NYSE, Trading Floor, International, Market Info, Members, Regulation, Press Room, Quick Quote, Search, Glossary)
NASDAQ— http://www.nasdaq.com/
(InfoQuotes, News, Custom Ticker, IPOs, Today's Filings, Nasdaq-100, Help & Reference, Resources, Site Search)
AMEX (American Stock Exchange)— http://www.amex.com/
(Quotes for AMEX, Nasdaq, NYSE; News; Market Activity; Portfolio Tracking; Equity & Index Options; IPOs; Resources)
OTCBB (OTC Bulletin Board)— http://www.otcbb.com/dynamic/
(About OTCBB, Market Statistics, Trading Activity, Market Maker Services, Investor Info, Issuer Info, Vendor Info)
CBOE (Chicago Board Options Exchange)— http://www.cboe.com/
(About CBOE, Quotes, Symbols, Products, Trader's Tools, Education, Institutional, Help & Resources, Links)
CME (Chicago Mercantile Exchange)— http://www.cme.com/
(About CME, Getting Started, Prices, Products, News, Electronic Trading, Traders Corner, Educational Resources)
PSE (Pacific Exchange: Stock & Options)— http://www.pacificex.com/
(About Pacific Exchange, Equities, Options, Listing Info, Membership, PSE-Tech100)
Foreign Stock Exchanges:
London Stock Exchange (360-degrees aerial view of London through a porthole on their home page)— http://www.londonstockexchange.co.uk
(What's New, About Us, Prices/News, Private Investors, Directory, Site Map/Tour, Markets, techMARK, Alternative Investment Market, Companies, Statistics, Market Data Distributors, Technical Library, Info: Share & Market Performance)
Nagoya Stock Exchange (Japan)— http://www.nse.or.jp/index-e.htm
(Market Review, Stock Index, Volume, Option25 Index, System Traded Stock, Convertible Bond, Companies)
Paris Bourse (in French & English)— http://www.bourse-de-paris.fr/homegb.htm
(News; Markets; Indexes; Shareholder's Notebook; Your Questions; Documentation Center; Glossary; Euro Calculator)
SEHK (Stock Exchange of Hong Kong)— http://www.sehk.com.hk/
(About SEHK, News & Library, Hyperlinks, Market Info, News, Glossary, What's New, Hot Visit, FAQ, Search)
Singapore Exchange— http://www.ses.com.sg
(News Center; Courses & Events; Securities Trading: Live Prices, Announcements; Derivatives Trading: Prices, Products)
TSE (Taiwan Stock Exchange)— http://www.tse.com.tw/
(About Us, Market Info, Brokers, Companies, Publications, Info Vendors, ISIN, Market Statistics, Chinese)
TSE (Tokyo Stock Exchange)— http://www.tse.or.jp/eindex.html
(News, Search, Mail, K-Square, Investor Info, Specialist Info, Japanese)
TSE (Toronto Stock Exchange)— http://www.tse.com/
(Quote Look-Up, Investor Centre, News Just In, Listed Companies, Market Data Services, Blueprint for Success, TSE Shop)
ISE (International Securities Exchange)— http://www.iseoptions.com/
(About ISE, History, Market Structure, Contact & Link Info, Electronic Trading, Press Room, Site Map)
Stock-Buying Strategies:
How To Buy At Just The Right Moment (William O'Neill, chairman & founder of Investor's Business Daily)— http://ibd.infostreet.com/won/980914.html
(How to interpret volume & price in selecting the right time to buy; the cup-with-handle pattern applied in buying Microsoft)
Advance-Decline Line (from Steven B. Achelis's Technical Analysis from A to Z)— http://www.equis.com/free/taaz/advdecline.html
[The Advance/Decline Line ("A/D Line") is the most widely used measure of market breadth. It is a cumulative total of the Advancing-Declining Issues indicator. When compared to the movement of a market index (DJIA or S&P 500) the A/D Line has proven to be an effective gauge of the stock market's strength. Overview, Interpretation, Example, Calculation]
Bull-Bear Ratio (from Steven B. Achelis's Technical Analysis from A to Z)— http://www.equis.com/free/taaz/bullbearatio.html
(Dr. Martin Zweig warns in his book Winning On Wall Street: “Beware of the crowd when the crowd is too one-sided.&$148; Extreme optimism on the part of the public and even professionals almost always coincides with market tops. Extreme pessimism almost always coincides with market bottoms.)
Market Indicators (from Steven B. Achelis's Technical Analysis from A to Z)— http://www.equis.com/free/taaz/intmarketindicators.html
(Market indicators: monetary, sentiment, momentum. Use market indicators to determine where the overall market is headed and then use price/volume indicators to determine when to buy or sell an individual stock.)
Moving Averages (from Steven B. Achelis's Technical Analysis from A to Z)— http://www.equis.com/free/taaz/intmovingaverages.html
(Investors usually buy when a stock's price rises above its moving average and sell when it falls below its moving average.)
The Time Element (from Steven B. Achelis's Technical Analysis from A to Z)— http://www.equis.com/free/taaz/intthetimeelement.html
(Changing prices over time: chart studies of Merck & Disney's price moves from $25 to $45 within a year)
Stock Tips
CBS MarketWatch Commentary Library— http://www.gs.com/news/2000/top10_2000.html
(Featured columnists: Thom Calandra, Michael Bazdarich, Joe Battipaglia, Roy Blumberg, Paul Farrell, Elaine Garzarelli, Irwin Kellner, Paul Erdman, Frank Cappiello, Courtney Smith, Op Eds, Wise Women)
Goldman Sachs' Technology Research Picks Top 10 Themes for 2000— http://www.gs.com/news/2000/top10_2000.html
(Ten overall themes that will drive the development and growth of the technology sector in the year 2000)
Goldman Sachs Investment Research Picks Favorite Stocks for the Year— http://www.gs.com/news/2000/usfavorite2000.html
(89 stocks which Goldman Sachs expects to return 35% compared to 4% for the S&P 500 for the year 2000)
Lehman Brothers Global Equity Research— http://personal100.fidelity.com/global/whatsnew/content/95144.html
(10 Uncommon EuroValues in common stocks for 2000)
MSN's MoneyCentral Community Recommendations— ttp://moneycentral.msn.com/community/recommend/reclistall.asp?SortOrder=2
(Active recommendation list & average target price for the new recommendations)
Paul Farrell Picks 15 Top Technology Funds— http://cbs.marketwatch.com/archive/20000407/news/current/superstar.htx?source=htx/http2_mw
(Informative article on tech's new frontier with top tech funds having solid 5-year track records.)
Stock of the Week (Standard & Poor's)— http://personalwealth.netscape.com/investing/stocks/StockOfTheWeek.html
(Standard & Poor's Stock Pick of the Week available at Netscape's Personal Wealth section)
streetadvisor.com (Real Analysts, Real Analysis, Real Time)— http://www.streetadvisor.com/
(Buy, Sell, Hold Recommendations; Analysis This Week; Day Trading Guide; Analysts' Portfolios; Meet Our Analysts; About streetadvisor.com; Rumor Analysis; Chart Analysis; Internet; Technology; Communications; Finance; Health Care; Daily Market Commentary)
Wall Street City Analysts' Ratings— http://www.wallstreetcity.com/industry/template/TPL_industry_analyst_rating.asp
(Strong Buy & Sell recommendations for industry groups)

Technical Analysis
Technical Analysis from A to Z (by Steven B. Achelis)— http://www.equis.com/free/taaz/index.html
(Technical Analysis, Price fields, Charts, Support & resistance, Trends, Moving averages, Indicators, Market indicators, Line studies, Periodicity, Time element, Conclusion, Glossary from "Absolute Breadth Index" to "Zig Zag")
Tim's Technical Worksheet (University of Melbourne, Australia)— http://www.arts.unimelb.edu.au/amu/ucr/student/1997/Yee/tim.htm
(Could you have predicted the October 1987 crash from these 16 Market Indexes?)
Lycos: Investing: Technical Analysis— http://dir.lycos.com/Business/Investing/Technical_Analysis/
(45 links to technical analysis: charts, numerical analysis, screenings, newsletters)
Yahoo: Finance & Investment: Technical Analysis— http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Finance_and_Investment/Technical_Analysis/
(17 links to technical analysis: magazines, organizations, market timing & charts)
Practical Guide to Technical Analysis (Market Data Source)— http://www.mdshistoricalquotes.com/technical_analysis/ta.htm
(Introduction, Technical Indicators, Practical Guide, Sector Investing, Market Linkages)
Introduction to Technical Analysis (Market Data Source)— http://www.mdshistoricalquotes.com/technical_analysis/intro1.htm
(What is Technical Analysis?, Trends, Retracement, Support, Resistance)
Technical Indicators-1 (Market Data Source)— http://www.mdshistoricalquotes.com/technical_analysis/indicators1.htm
(Lagging Indicators: Simple Moving Average, Exponential Moving Average, Combining Moving Average, Whipsaws)
Technical Indicators-2 (Market Data Source)— http://www.mdshistoricalquotes.com/technical_analysis/indicators2.htm
(Oscillators: Overbought or Oversold, Divergence, Momentum, Relative Strength Index, Stochastics)
Technical Indicators-3 (Market Data Source)— http://www.mdshistoricalquotes.com/technical_analysis/indicators3.htm
(Combined Oscillators and Lagging Indicators: Moving Average Convergence Divergence)
Technical Analysis (Market Data Source)— http://www.mdshistoricalquotes.com/technical_analysis/guide3.htm
(9 Rules for Your Own Technical System, MDS & Other Market Timing Systems)
Dirty Thirty: Part 1— Outer Space or the Molten Core? (By Gary B. Smith, TheStreet.com, 6-9-2000)— http://www.thestreet.com/pf/comment/techtake/956969.html
(In this 4-part series, Smith charts the progress of the first 30 dot-com companies to go public using technical analysis)
Dirty Thirty: Part 2 (By James J. Cramer, TheStreet.com, 6-12-2000)— http://www.thestreet.com/pf/comment/wrong/957720.html
(In this 2-part series, Cramer diagnoses how each of the first 30 dot-com companies has weathered the sector's storms)