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Money Matters
Banks and Banking: - ABA Banking Journal
- Online version of the ABA Banking Journal, the monthly magazine of the
American Bankers Association. The site provides free full-text access
to the current and past issues of the magazine.
- Bank for International Settlements (BIS)
- Homepage of the Bank of International Settlements, an international organization
that fosters cooperation among central banks and other agencies in pursuit
of monetary and financial stability. The site provides international
banking statistics and links to central banks.
- Bank
Information Center (BIC) - Homepage of the Bank Information Center, a
non-profit organization that provides information and strategic support to
non-governmental organizations and social movements in developing countries
on the projects, policies, and practices of the World Bank and other
Multilateral Development Banks. The site provides information about
projects and policy debates by region, toolkits for activists, information
about U.S. Government oversights of the Multilateral Development Banks, and
links to other organizations who monitor the impacts of multilateral
development bank lending.
- Federal Reserve - The
site provides information about monetary policies, the banking structure,
the payment system, banking regulations, and banking statistics and
reports. The site also provides consumer banking information including
information about credit cards, home mortgages, vehicle leasing, personal
finance, and identity theft.
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
(FDIC) - Homepage of the FDIC, the governmental agency that
provides insurance protection for depositors if their bank fails and is
responsible for supervising certain savings banks and state-chartered banks
that are not members of the Federal Reserve System. The site provides
information about deposit insurance, statistical data about the banking
industry, banking laws and regulations, and information about buying assets
from or selling assets to the FDIC.
- Foreign Central Banks
- Directory of links to foreign central banks arranged by country and
provided by the U.S. Federal Reserve Board.
- Inter-American
Development Bank - Homepage of the Inter-American Development
Bank, a development institution that was established to help accelerate
economic and social development in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The site provides country economic and environmental assessments,
information about proposed and approved economic development projects, and
information about the ethics involved in development. The site
provides translations in English, French, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish.
- International Monitary Fund (IMF) - Homepage
of the IMF, an international organization established to promote
international monetary cooperation, exchange stability, and orderly exchange
arrangements; to foster economic growth and high levels of employment; and
to provide temporary financial assistance to countries to help ease balance
of payments adjustment. The site provides country information,
information about internationally recognized standard and codes of good
economic policy making, information about emerging markets, and
macroeconomic policies. The site provides translation in English,
French, German, and Spanish.
- National Information Center
(NIC) - Provides comprehensive information on banks and other
institutions for which the Federal Reserve has a supervisory,
regulatory, or research interest including both domestic and foreign banking
organizations operating in the U.S.
- World Bank Group - Homepage
of the World Bank Group, which is one of the world's largest sources of
development assistance and works in coordination with the governments of
developed and developing countries and other partners in the development
community to combat world poverty. The site provides country
information, socio-economic statistics arranged by country and by topic, and
information about development topics, projects, and reports.
Financial and Investment Information: - Bloomberg
- Homepage of Bloomberg LP, an information services,
news, and media company that serves customers worldwide and provides the
latest financial, stock, and market news. The site provides stock
market snapshots, profit warnings, analysts ratings, financial calculators,
personal finance tips, retirement strategies, and the latest bond, currency,
interest, and mortgage rates.
- Bond
Market Association - Homepage of the Bond Market Association, which
represents securities firms and banks that domestically and internationally
underwrite, trade, and sell debt securities (municipal bonds, U.S. Treasury
securities, federal agency securities, mortgage and other asset-backed
securities, corporate debt securities, money market instruments, and repos).
The site provides information about bond market practices, issues, news, and
research/statistics.
- Bonds Online - Provides bond
market news, research, and investor resources. The site also features
an online trading component as well as a bond search and quote service for
corporate, municipal, treasury, and savings bonds.
- BradyNet - Provides information
about emerging market's fixed income such as prices, ratings, new issues,
news, research, and analysis about bonds, exotic debt, futures, and options
on futures.
- Business
Finance - Directory of funding sources and services for American
businesses. Provides links to commercial business loan lenders,
equipment finance/leasing firms, government business loan providers,
commercial real estate lenders, investment banking/brokerage firms, venture
capital investment firms, and private (angel) investors.
- CNN Money - Site provided by CNN
and Money Magazine that provides financial news, market and stock
information, personal finance tips, financial calculators, and information
about other money issues.
- Daily Stocks - Stock
research site that allows users to register and create an id for free in
order to personalize the site with stock picks that the user is most
interested in tracking. In addition to providing stock quotes and
data, the site provides the historical financials, company comparisons with
competitors, stock charts, and reports from analysts.
- Financial Forecast Center -
Source for information about current economic indicators, stock indices
forecasts, currency exchange forecasts, and historical financial data.
- Financial
Ratios: Summary - Source for financial ratio definitions and
equations. The site includes liquidity analysis ratios, profitability
analysis ratios, activity analysis ratios, capital structure analysis
ratios, capital market ratios, and return on assets.
- Financial Times - Online version of
the U.S. Edition of the Financial Times, a London-based financial newspaper that reports
worldwide business news. The site provides the free full-text access
to current news articles and allows users to view articles by industry and
company name. The site also provides Financial Times industry and
country surveys as well as links finance and investing resources.
- FinWeb - Financial
economics directory created and managed by James R. Garven, Ph.D of at
Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business.
- Investor Guide - Guide to
investing information and sites on the Internet. The site provides
information about stocks, mutual funds, bonds, venture capital, currency,
commodities, options, futures, and personal finance.
- Moody's Investor Service -
Homepage of Moody's Investors Service, a global credit rating, research, and
risk analysis firm that publishes credit opinions, research, and ratings on
fixed-income securities.
- Morningstar - Homepage of
Morningstar, a provider of mutual fund, stock, and variable-annuity
investment information. The Springs Business Library at USC has a
current subscription to the paper version of the Morningstar Mutual Funds
biweekly guide.
- Motley Fool - Homepage of a
financial education company that provides saving and investing strategies,
personal finance tips, and information about retirement. The site also
provides stock quotes and market charts and features a portfolio manager.
- Multex-Investor
- Provides stock, fund and personal finance research and information.
Users can register for free and receive free timely newsletters with updates
on the latest free research reports and industry specfic investment advice
and news.
- Mutual Funds
Investor Center - Homepage of the Mutual Fund Education Alliance, a
non-profit trade association of the no-load mutual fund industry. The
site a collection of mutual fund companies, website links, fund listings,
and tools for planning, tracking, and monitoring investments.
- Mutual Funds Magazine -
Online version of Mutual Funds Magazine, which provides free full-text
access to articles in the current issue. The site also provides
investing tools such as a portfolio manager and risk analyzer, a mutual fund
finder, and a guide to investing in mutual funds.
- Nasdaq Newsroom - Newsroom of the
Nasdaq, the world's first electronic stock market. The site reports
the latest developments, statistics, new listings, trade halts, and
deletions of the Nasdaq stock market and indexes.
- Pink Sheets - Homepage
of Pink Sheets LLC, the leading provider of pricing and financial
information for the over-the-counter (OTC) securities markets. The
site provides OTC market data including daily changes, venue changes,
trading statistics, a list of quote request leaders, and an alphabetical
stock list.
- Standard
and Poor's - Homepage of Standard and Poor's, a provider of credit
ratings and risk analysis. The site provides information about the
S&P 500 and analysis on market-moving stocks and
industries.
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
(SEC) - Homepage of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, a
federal government agency that protects investors and maintains the
integrity of the securities markets. The site provides information
about regulatory actions, investor information, litigation, and investor
compliant data as well as provides access to the Edgar database of company
financial report filings.
- Valueline - Homepage of Value
Line, which publishes information on stocks, mutual funds, special
situations, options and convertibles. The site provides investing guides, a
stock finder, a portfolio manager, and financial calculators. The
Springs Business Library has a current subscription to the paper version of
the Value Line Investment Survey, a comprehensive source of information and
advice on stocks, industries, the stock market, and the economy.
- Virtual Finance Library
- Directory of finance sites provided by Ohio State's Department of Finance
and part of the WWW Virtual Library.
- Wachowic's Web
World - Directory of financial management websites created by John
Wachowicz to correspond with the book entitled Fundamentals of Financial
Management, which he and James Van Horne wrote and Prentice-Hall published
in 2001.
- Wall Street Journal Research Net
- Online investing network that provides stock quotes, expected
earnings, company news, etc.
- Yahoo! Finance
- This site for investing and personal finance provides U.S. and international stock quotes with minimal delay when markets are open, as well as historical stock quotes and other market information. Additional investment topics include general financial news, industry news, annual reports, and mutual fund, bond, and option information. Also includes links to more than 20 international sites. Personal finance subjects include loans, insurance, and taxes.
Money: - Bank
Rate Monitor - Consumer finance marketplace that provides information
about banking, investing, taxes, small business finance, mortgages, credit
cards, new and used automobile loans, money market accounts, certificates of
deposit, checking and ATM fees, home equity loans and online banking fees.
- Bankruptcy
Data - Business bankruptcy resource that provides access to
information on thousands of business bankruptcy filings from over 80 federal
bankruptcy districts. The site provides bankruptcy headlines, links to
bankruptcy courts by state, a glossary of bankruptcy terms, The
Business Bankruptcy Database is available through a subscription or pay-per
search/view basis.
- Euro -
Official Euro information site, which provides a euro converter, conversion
rates, and other information about the Euro currency. The site
provides translations in various languages.
- Homestore - Directory of
resources about buying a home, renting, financing and insurance, moving,
home improvements, and other issues about homes. The site provides a
mortgage calculator, a moving calculator, and a salary/cost of living
calculator.
- Money
Management International - Homepage of Money Management
International, which is a nonprofit, community service organization that
provides professional financial guidance, counseling, community-wide
educational programs and debt management assistance to consumers.
- SmartMoney - Online version of
SmartMoney Magazine, which provides full text articles of the current issue
as well as current news and updates from the stock market, resources and
guides to help with personal finance, and current information about bonds
and economic indicators.
- Universal Currency Converter - Currency
tool that allows you to perform interactive foreign exchange rate
calculations on the Internet using live currency rates.
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This page updated
May 9, 2008