Directories/Megasites/Search Engines

Directories

Dow Jones Business Directory http://bd.dowjones.com/index.asp
Dow Jones Business Directory provides resources about business information on the Web. The Directory is published by Dow Jones & Company, Inc., the world's leading publisher of business news and information in every form of media.

Global Investor Directory http://www.global-investor.com
This directory contains various types of information, including:
A Global Investor Directory, a resource for financial sites and services;
A Market Performance service that compares the performance of the world's major markets; Finance netWatch, that looks at the latest developments in finance on the Net; Information about ADRs, with a complete listing of international ADRs issued in the US. The service can create a customized portfolio monitor.

Hoover's Online http://www.hoovers.com
Online site for the Hoover's Company directory. Includes free and subscriber-only information about 12,000 companies, 2,700 in-depth reports; custom searches; stock screening; information about IPOs, cyberstocks, industry snapshots and employment information.

Invest-o-rama http://investorama.com
Huge resource for information. Includes a directory of investing resources with over 7,000 entries in 75 categories, each with a brief description; a complete directory of public companies with web sites, with over 4,500 links; a portfolio tracker; stock research that features 75 direct links to information about a specific stock; and technical charts with customizable parameters.

Yahoo http://www.yahoo.com
One of the most popular Internet directories.

Yahoo Finance and Investment Index http://www.yahoo.com/Business/Finance_and_Investment/
The finance and investment index of the Yahoo Internet directory.

Megasites

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Armchair Millionaire http://www.armchairmillionaire.com
An extensive information and educational site for personal investors.

Interactive Nest Egg http://nestegg.iddis.com
This is an umbrella site for financial services, including: Smith Barney Wall Street Watch; daily market information; information from the New York Institute of Finance Center, and general articles on equities/funds.

Investor Home http://www.investorhome.com
Lots of useful information and links. Contains a very useful collection of finding tools, such as search screens from Yahoo and other search engines, stock analysis tools, etc.

Investors Edge http://www.irnet.com
Operates Stock Point, a general information service for investors, with a wide range of investment information.

InvestTools http://investools.com/
Huge site for personal investors, with information including: links to extensive research reports from Zack's, Standard & Poors and others; news from Reuters Worldwide Corporate News Wire; extensive charting; quotes; investment newsletters; portfolio tracking and account management.

Microsoft Investor http://investor.msn.com/common/welcome2.asp?
Huge site with variety of information for the individual investor.

OSU Virtual Finance Library http://www.cob.ohio-state.edu/dept/fin/overview.htm
A huge site, with links to every conceivable subject in the areas of finance and investment.

Pathfinder http://www.pathfinder.com/welcome/
Pathfinder is Time's umbrella site for: Fortune, Hoover's Business Profiles and Money. The site offers general information on personal finance and investment.

PAWWS Financial Network http://pawws.com
PAWWS Financial Network is a comprehensive Internet investment resource. It features integrated portfolio accounting, securities and market research tools, real-time quotations, and on-line trading.

Smartmoney Interactive http://www.smartmoney.com
Smartmoney Interactive, developed from Smartmoney Magazine, is a large, general purpose site for the individual investor.

Stockmaster http://www.stockmaster.com
Extensive investment information, including personal portfolios, news, SEC filings, detailed quotes, earnings histories and more.

Thomson Investors Network http://www.thomsoninvest.net
A large site with a variety of information for individual investors.

Wall Street Research Net http://www.wsrn.com
This site contains a wealth of information about particular subjects, as well as references to hundreds of other sites. It is a "gateway" site.

Search Engines

Copernic http://www.copernic.com
A software product that searches ten other search engines, at a a time. Copernic saves searches for future reference.

DailyStocks http://www.dailystocks.com
Daily Stocks is a search engine that uses extensive links to other sites. Includes quotes, charts, news, SEC Filings, Research Reports, Earnings Estimates, Magazine Articles, fundamentals, 10K and 10Q filings and other similar information.

Excite http://www.excite.com
One of several excellent search engines. Excite also includes a Business and Investing channel that includes links to a huge variety of investment-related information.

FinanceWise http://www.financewise.com
FinanceWise is a search engine that focuses specifically on financial-only content. FinanceWise indexes sites with content of interest to the financial world. Every topic, from risk management to syndicated finance and equities is indexed in depth, with the contents of each site evaluated by FinanceWise's editorial staff before sites are allowed into FinanceWise's search index.

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Exchanges

American Stock Exchange http://www.amex.com
Site for the American Stock Exchange, with extensive information, including information about the most active companies traded, listed companies, options and derivatives, SPDRs & WEBS, etc.

List of World Exchanges http://db.axone.ch/FinanceWatch/ExchangesByCountry.cfm
A "mega-list" of world exchanges.

NASDAQ http://www.nasdaq.com
The primary site for over-the-counter stocks.

The Chicago Board of Trade http://www.cbt.com
Site for the Chicago Board of Trade, with detailed information about futures, options, commodities, etc.

American Stock Exchange.	Chicago Board Options Echange.
Chicago Stock Exchange.	NASDAQ.
New York Stock Exchange.	Philadelphia Stock Exchange.
Australian Stock Exchange.	Italian Stock Exchange.
London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange.	Montreal Exchange.
Paris Stock Exchange.	Madrid Stock Exchange.
Stock Exchange of Singapore.	Stock Exchange of Thailand.
Stockholm Stock Exchange.	Vancouver Stock Exchange.

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Financial Research

Bonds

Bloomberg – International Yield Curves http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/
Information about bond performance, both U.S. and global, including international yields. Also includes equity indexes and currency information.

J.P.Morgan http://www.jpmorgan.com/research/
Daily updated information to government bond indices, Emerging Markets Bond Index Plus, currency indices, and other information about bonds.

Company Research

DailyStocks http://www.dailystocks.com
Daily Stocks is a search engine that uses extensive links to other sites. Includes quotes, charts, news, SEC Filings, Research Reports, Earnings Estimates, Magazine Articles, fundamentals, 10K and 10Q filings and other similar information.

First Call Corporation http://www.firstcall.com
First Call Corporation, a division of Thomson Financial Services, is a source of real-time, commingled research, earnings estimates and corporate information serving the worldwide financial community. The information distributed by First Call originates from the world's leading brokerage firms, investment research firms and global corporations. Services include, among others: FIRST CALL Notes, for real-time, electronic delivery of commingled morning meeting comments, intra-day research broadcasts and special equity notes from more than 250 top brokerage and investment research firms worldwide; FIRST CALL Research Direct&REG offers clients real-time, electronic access to more than 500,000 commingled full-text research reports -- including all text, charts, graphs, color and formatting -- from more than 190 leading brokerage firms worldwide.

FreeEdgar http://www1.freeedgar.com
Offers free SEC company filings, in a more accessible form than is available directly from the SEC.

Hoover's Stock Screener http://www.stockscreener.com/
Hoover's stock screening database.

Investor Square http://205.185.55.42/InvSq/new/default.asp
Extensive company information, including stock quotes; mutual fund searching of 9,500 funds on 100 different variables with a detailed profile sheet on each fund; portfolio tracking systems with fundamental data along with returns, high/low, end-of-day prices; detailed information on over 3,500 variable annuity subaccounts with 100 different performance indicators and extensive administrative information; Intraday and historical charts; market summaries; news and other information.

Morningstar.Net http://www.morningstar.net
This is the popular Morningstar's web site, with extensive stock and mutual fund research and screening information.

Motley Fool http://www.fool.com
A popular site for investment education, portfolio management, news and advice about personal investment.

Public Register's Annual Report Service http://www.prars.com
The Public Register's Annual Report Service (PRARS), is America's largest annual report service. Company financials, including annual reports, prospectuses or 10k's on over 3,200 public companies are available without charge to the investing public.

Quicken Financial WebSite http://www.quicken.com/investments
A one-stop shop of financial information. Includes, among other information, investment, savings, loan, retirement and insurance information.

Standard & Poor's Index http://www.stockinfo.standardpoor.com
Standard & Poor's Equity Investor Services provides investors with extensive information about companies, industries and equity markets, including the well-known S&P stocks reports.

Stockmaster http://www.stockmaster.com
Extensive investment information, including personal portfolios, news, SEC filings, detailed quotes, earnings histories and more.

Telestock http://www.teleserv.co.uk/stock
TeleStock provides finance information as well as "day old" on-line quotes of major U.S. and European shares, options and commodities.

Zacks Investment Research http://www.zacks.com
Extensive site featuring Zacks’ popular investment analysts’ reports.

Charting/Technical Analysis

Big Charts http://www.bigcharts.com
BigCharts offer online access to charts, reports, indicators and quotes on over 34,000 U.S. stocks, mutual funds and major market indexes. BigCharts is constructed with several proprietary bolt-on financial applications and is powered by Concerto’s proprietary Financial Media Server (FMS).

Decision Point Market Timing & Charts http://www.decisionpoint.com
Decision Point is an information and educational source for technical analysis and stock market timing. Includes extensive free technical analysis materials , including: daily charts; quick technical analyses of stocks, mutual funds and industry groups; historical charts; commentary; analysis; daily coverage of Fidelity Select Mutual Funds, including BUY and SELL Signals and Strength Analysis; Daily relative strength ranking and weekly charts of 102 Industry Groups and 12 Market Sectors.

Online calculators http://www.global-investor.com/dir/g-calcs.htm
Calculators for the following types of information:
Commissions calculators | Options | Convertible Bonds | Warrants | Fixed Income Yield Calculators | Statistics | Present/Future Value | Deposit Calculators | Loan Payments | U.S. Savings Bond Calculators | General Personal Finance | Retirement

Stock Market Timing http://www.firstcap.com
Stock Market Timing is a short term, top down technical approach to trading the Stock Market. It is intended for investors and traders who are not satisfied with the buy and hold forever approach to investing. It is a methodology which seeks to reduce market risk by recognizing the underlying market trend and then by trading with the trend of the market, long or short. The sites includes analysis of the direction of both the Stock and Bond Markets; market evaluations, a list of stocks with favorite technicals.

Stock Smart http://www.stocksmart.com
Extensive investment information, including software for technical analysis.

Stock screens

StockSelector.com	WSRN
Hoover's	Motley Fool
Market Guide	Stock Smart
Market Player	AlphaChart
National Association of Investors	Value Line
Wall Street City.	Zacks Research Wizard.
IQ Net Stock Scan.	Standard & Poor's.
Thomson Investors Network.

Real-Time Data

DBC Online http://www.dbc.com/
A provider of real-time market data to individual investors, provided by Data Broadcasting Corporation.

Quote.Com http://www.quote.com
Quote.com provides financial market data to Internet users. This includes delayed and real-time current quotes on stocks, options, commodity futures, mutual funds, and indices, for U.S. and Canadian markets. Quote.com also provides real-time business news, earnings forecasts & reports, market analysis & commentary, fundamental (balance sheet) data, annual reports, intra-day & historical charts, weather information, and company profiles.

Currency Information

Bloomberg - Markets http://www.bloomberg.com/markets
Detailed information about currency rates, including a table of US Dollar rates with selected key cross rates.

CNN Financial Network http://cnnfn.com/markets/currencies.html
Includes table of US Dollar rates updated around the clock and other currency information.

Depositary Receipts

American Depositary Receipts http://www.global-investor.com/adr/index.htm
This site includes an extensive database of ADRs from all over the world.

Futures, Options, Derivatives

Chicago Mercantile Exchange http://www.cme.com
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange site offers information about futures and options contracts traded on the CME's trading floors, including currencies, interest rates, stock indexes and agricultural commodities. The site includes news, electronic trading and educational resources, including online simluated trading.

Finance.wat.ch http://finance.wat.ch
Finance.wat.ch offers information about futures/options contracts; financial education/training resources; a glossary explaining derivative instruments; and various reports and papers on derivatives and risk management.

INO Global Markets http://www.ino.com
Global information about futures and options.

MarketPlex http://www.cbot.com/mplex.htm
MarketPlex is located at the Chicago Board of Trade and is an umbrella site for a collection of futures-related services, technical charts, research reports, select articles from journals, access to subscription MRI service, daily charts/data, and access to MJK closing prices for commodity exchanges worldwide.

Hi-Tech Companies

Cyberstocks.com http://www.cyberstocks.com
An information source for internet-related stocks. cyberstocks.com features free in-depth profiles of more than 100 public Internet companies, plus news, industry information, stock quotes, charts and daily market information on the cyberstocks.

Hi-Tech Investor http://www.want2know.com/invest/invest.htm
Extensive resources for high-tech companies; also includes a collection of links to other sources.

Silicon Investor http://www.techstocks.com/
Extensive information about high-tech stocks.

TechInvestor http://www.techinvestor.com
This site focuses on high technology companies and offers a wealth of information.
 
Macroeconomic Research

Yardeni's Economics Network http://www.yardeni.com/
Dr. Ed Yardeni is Chief Economist of Deutsche Morgan Grenfell in New York. Dr. Yardeni's site offers a wide variety of information, including country reports, industry reports and so on. Information categories include: Macroeconomic information;Economic Analysis and Forecasting; Economic Reports; Economic Research Studies; Charting Information.

Mutual Funds

Fidelity Investments http://www.fid-inv.com
Primary site for Fidelity Investments. Offers account access, stock analysis tools, educational materials, etc.

Mutual Funds Interactive http://www.brill.com
Extensive information about mutual funds. Market analyses; mutual fund recommendations, features; educational articles, search facility and other resources.

Mutual Funds Interactive http://www.fundsinteractive.com/toolshed.html
Partnering with Value Line and Data Broadcast Corporation to offer useful tools for mutual fund finding.

Mutual Funds http://www.mfmag.com/start.htm
Extensive information about Mutual Funds. Most information is available only to subscribers, however.

NETworth http://networth.galt.com
Mutual fund information from Morningstar: search facility for funds, fund rankings, prospectus database, articles and market outlooks; directory of company web sites.

Quicken Financial Web Site Mutual Funds http://www.quicken.com/investments/mutualfunds
Offers extensive mutual fund finding tools. Data is supplied by Morningstar.

Vanguard Securities http://www.vanguard.com
Extensive site from the mutual fund company, with a wealth of information for individual mutual fund investors. Includes variety of educational materials.

Software/Tools

Brightline http://www.ragm.com/brightline
Market simulation.

MS Agent http://www.microsoft.com/workshop/prog/agent
An example of the evolving area of voice recognition software.

Olsen & Associates http://www.olsen.ch
Olsen is a world leader in advanced forecasting technology for the financial markets with operations in Zurich and London. The Olsen Information System is a family of decision support tools for the foreign exchange markets. Our ever popular Currency Converter offers exchange rates for 164 currencies. Our Web services now have a new home: OANDA, our new Internet subsidiary.

Transurf http://www.transurf.com
Automatic translation software.

UltraHal http://www.zabaware.com/
Intelligent assistant software.

Visible Decisions http://www.vdi.com
3-D visualization of financial data.

Software with no listed web site (prices 1999)

AIQ TradingExpert for Windows 4.0, by AIQ Systems
Price $695. Offers a variety of investors' tools including market timing, technical analysis, fundamental analysis and a mutual fund analyzer to help pick winning investment ideas. The cost with all the add-on modules included can balloon to $2,000.

Captool Individual Investor for Windows, by Captool
Price: $249. A flexible program, it calculates internal rate of return and compares performance to overall market 8.

Day Trader 6.0, by Window on WallStreet
1/2 Price: $1,495 plus monthly data acquisition charges of $150. Offers a wide range of technical and fundamental indicators with ways to combine them and create individual indicators and trading systems. Charting functions include intraday views that can show last-tick, minute-by-minute and end-of-day charts .

Financial Navigator 6.7, by Financial Navigator International
Price: $299. Geared toward more complex financial situation than can be readily handled by Quicken or Money, it can track a wide range of investments and assets including executive stock options and oil and gas working interests.

IQ Chart, by IQC Corp.
Price: $24.95 per month, plus $12.50 per month for real-time quotes. A Java-based combination of technical analysis and portfolio tracking that might appeal to those searching for an alternative to the discontinued Investor Insight .

MetaStock Professional for DBC Signal, by Equis International
Price: $995 for introductory period, then $1,495. Comes with 120 built-in indicators and line studies, provides real-time analysis of U.S. and Canadian stocks and has the capability to plot multiple securities and indexes on a single chart .

Reeally! by Mantic Software
1/2 Price: $150. Heavy-duty portfolio tracking and analytical capabilities aimed at tracking, measuring and comparing investments, and translating performance of diverse holdings into a true rate of return 8.

SRC Chart$creen, by Securities Research
Price: $347 annually. Designed for the long-term investor, provides 12 years of fundamental data and technical analysis tools for 2,100 companies. Monthly data updates. Currently, no online links to news databases.

Turbo Tax, by Intuit
The new CD-ROM version ranks highest in ease of use and setup, depth of features including data and value for the money. Allows user to file return electronically.

TaxCut, by H&R Block and Kiplinger
The CD software is quick to catch mistakes and prompt user for corrections. Contains the full text of just about every IRS publication .

TaxChecker, by Tax Defenders
Program that provides a dry run of an IRS audit .

Value Line Mutual Fund Survey 2.0 for Windows, by Value Line
1/2 Price: $395 per year. Data on 8,300 mutual funds. Displays in spreadsheet form and contains fields not found in competitor's program, including performance statistics for bull and bear stretches and data on how funds weathered October 1987 crash .

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Global Information

Asian Equity Research Information Service (AERIS)  http://www.emgmkts.com/index.htm
This site offers extensive information about Asian markets. It includes market news, analysis, performance information about Asian stocks The AERIS database provides data on all stocks in the exchanges it covers. Coverage includes the Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysian, Philippine, Indonesian, Thailand, Australian, Shanghai and Shenzhen markets.

Business Times Singapore www.business-times.asia1.com.sg
A free site providing daily news stories including financial features on companies and people throughout Asia.

Canada Stockwatch www.canada-stockwatch.com
Price: $4.95 to $49.95 per month. Information on Canadian public companies from news releases, documents provided by companies and stock quotes from Canadian exchanges.

Canadian Financial Network www.canadianfinance.com
Provides an index of Websites categorized into areas like discount brokerages, investment research, mutual funds and venture capital.

Canadian Stock Market Reporter www.canstock.com
Price: $7.95 to $29.95 per month. Provides delayed quotes, charts and news, insider reports, company information and 100 real-time snapshot quotes.

Carlson Online Services www.fin-info.com
Provides links to recent news stories, stock information, exchange and industry data for Canadian companies.

Dow Jones Telerate http://www.djtelerate.com.hk
Asian Market News.

Emerging Markets Companion