Finance & Investment

INVESTMENT WEB SITES "M"

MSNBC Commerce
Click on the "business" link to find the latest business news stories, highlights of the Wall Street Journal, sector reports, information on personal finances, and delayed quotes.

Market Central
Mega site offering quotes and charts, market news, company information, mutual funds information, IPOs, annual reports links, futures and options, global markets, portfolios, and discussion forums.

Merrill Lynch
Web site of the giant financial advisor.

Microsoft MoneyCentral Investor
Probably the most well known investment Web site, along with Yahoo! Finance.  The site now has the banner "MoneyCentral Investor is now all free!"  This mega site offers free real-time quotes (50 per day); delayed quotes; a portfolio manager; a 401(k) planner; company and mutual fund reports; investment finder; investments matcher; insider trading information; a mutual funds section; and market reports.  This site also serves as an online broker.  Registration is required for some features.

Money Advisor
Money Advisor is a "financial help directory."  Included are financial calculators for investments, retirements, and loans and educational resources on such topics as mortgages and legal issues.

Money Magazine
The Web site for Money magazine offers select recent articles; a delayed quote area; a feature called money.com which is an investment report from the editors of Money; portfolios; a trading game; and investment education resources.

Moneyline.com
Moneyline bills itself as "the Internet's leading aggregator of financial market data, news, commentary and e-commerce applications. The Company provides financial professionals a real-time, interactive window to the world's financial markets. Its core strength is the global capital markets, which include money markets, fixed income, foreign exchange and derivatives."

MoneySearch
MoneySearch offers its selection of Web links under various investment categories in a "Reviewed Sites" section.  The value is that the sites are reviewed and not merely listed. There are also industry charts, investment articles from various newspapers and magazines, and financial calculators.

Moody's Investor Service
Moody's Web site contains information about the business and ratings giant as well as some bond ratings.

Morgan Stanley Dean Witter
Investments brokerage company.

Morningstar
Morningstar is the undisputed king of mutual funds.  Its Web site contains fund selection tools; real-time fund analyses; news items; market reports; a "university" section (educational reports); and a stock/fund quote service.

Motley Fool
The Motley Fool is an Internet site for the individual investor.  The "Fool" offers a forum for individuals to interact and share information and ideas; investment reports; delayed quotes and market data; portfolios; and a lot of educational resources.  Registration is required for some features.

Multex Investor Network
Multex is a relatively new but much publicized Internet investment information provider.  The home page has two links - one each for individual or institutional investors.  The "individual" section requires registration and provides free quotes and brokerage reports and a discussion forum.   Multex also offers a variety of fee-based services for the institutional investor.

Mutual Fund Investor's Center
The Mutual Fund Education Alliance offers this site for the individual mutual fund investor.  The "FundCenter" provides information and data on no-load mutual funds and the "FundFinder" allows users to find information on individual mutual funds.  There are also news stories and educational, retirement planning, and investment advisory resources.

Mutual Funds Central
Mutual Funds Central provides a list of the top ten "most-invested-in" mutual funds and the top no-load funds.  It also provides links to mutual fund resources such as ratings, fund research, fund performance, fund companies, and no-load funds.

Mutual Funds Online
The Web site for Mutual Funds magazine offers two tiers of service, free registration and "charter membership."   The free portion includes articles from the magazine, fund advisory information, fund calculators, discussion forums, and a weekly email newsletter.

INVESTMENT WEBSITES "N"

NASDAQ
The Web site for the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation System (NASDAQ) and the American Stock Exchange (AMEX) reflects their merger.  Visitors can enter up to ten stock quotes from AMEX, NASDAQ, or NYSE.  Included are sections for market news; equity and index options; earnings surprises; a portfolio section; and links to resources for individual investors.

NVST.com
NVST.com describes itself as the "only Internet portal serving the business-to-business needs of the private equity, merger and acquisition, and venture capital industries."  The site allows free searching of its databases of "over 50,000 professional and corporate profiles."

National Association of Investors Corporation
NAIC is an educational site for individuals and groups of investors.  The site offers a wide selection of investment advisory publications and research reports.  Some information is free, but the full range of services is available to members.  Cost is currently $39 for individuals and $40 for groups.

National Association of Securities Dealers
NASD is the parent company of the NASDAQ-AMEX exchange.  The site contains free market data (mostly monthly); market sector profiles; market quality statistics; regulatory data; a market simulation game; news releases and a glossary.

National Futures Association
The NFA is the self-regulatory agency for the futures industry.  All futures traders are required to become members. The site offers a list of futures related links on the Internet.

Netstock Direct
This site is aimed at individuals who want to buy stock directly from companies without an intermediary.   Users can enter in a ticker symbol or name to find out whether the company offers a plan.  Information from the 1,600+ companies in Netstock Direct's database includes minimum initial contribution, debit option, and a copy of the direct investing guide.  The site also has links for the most popular plans and new plans and has a new mutual fund component.   Netstock Direct also serves as an online broker.

New York Stock Exchange
The NYSE site contains a list of the over 3,000 companies on the exchange, searchable either alphabetically, through a search engine, by clicking on a geographic region of the world, or by industry type.  There is also a "Market Summary," "Fact Book," index quotes, and press releases.  The "Data Library" (under Market Information) contains historical statistics.

No Load Stocks Info
This site is for information on purchasing stock or joining a dividend reinvestment plan directly with a company.  The owner of this site maintains a list of companies and a discussion list.

North American Securities Administrators Association
This association is devoted to protecting investors.  The site is primarily educational.

INVESTMENT WEB SITES "O-P"

Oanda Currency Converter
This site provides an exchange rate calculator for the current day and for any day since January 1, 1990.  Users can also customize the display.

Online Investment Services
This is a list of discount stock and commodity brokers compiled by an individual investor.   The site maintains lists of the best brokers, information on choosing a broker, links to broker sites, and a section on "problem brokers."

Online Investor
The Online Investor is a mega site offering quotes, news, market summaries, investment strategies, up/downgrades, stock buybacks, stock splits, mergers/buyouts, earnings calendar, and IPOs.

Open Market
Internet commerce software provider.

Options Industry Council
The Options Industry Council is an educational resource for the options industry.  The site allows users to request free videos and software, provides a list of free seminars, and has press releases and a glossary.

OSU Virtual Finance Library
Ohio State University's Department of Finance has constructed a useful "virtual library" of finance and investment Web resources.  The frame on the left side provides links under various subjects, including "Exchanges," "Current Quotes," "Market News," and "For Investors."  There is also an interactive "Financial Data Finder" where users can submit queries and are directed to appropriate resources.

PC Quote
PC Quote is a mega site offering delayed quotes and charts, options, futures, personal finance information, market indices, business news, lists of online brokers, company information and filings, and IPOs.

PC Trader
Company offering trading software, products, and information.

PR Newswire
The PR Newswire site has two years of its news wire stories searchable by company name (along with links to SEC filings).   Today's headlines are also prominently displayed.  There is a multimedia section with video new stories and conference calls; market focus stories by industry name; and an individual investment section with delayed quotes, annual reports, and company news.

Philadelphia Stock Exchange
The Philadelphia Stock Exchange, the first securities exchange in the U.S., has information on its 2,600+ listings.  Users can find delayed quotes, options, a market newsletter and market news stories, and index quotes.  There is also an educational section with online guides and a glossary.

Pit Master
The logo at Pit Master is "futures traders helping futures traders."  The site contains a number of investment advisory resources; futures trading tips and tricks; an education center; and "TradeTudor" software for charts and data.

PitNews
This weekly online news source contains current news and information; a weekly fundamentals report; market tips; sector reports; charts; and strategies.

Prophet
Site offering market data and news, company quotes and information, and market leaders, losers, and most actives.

Public Register's Annual Report Service
Free online or hard-copy annual report.  Users click on first letter(s) of the company name.  The site currently provides reports for over 2,200 companies.

INVESTMENT WEB SITES "Q-R"

Quicken.com
Quicken offers a lot of free personal investment services at this site.  Users can find (mostly under the "Investments" link) delayed quotes and charts, analysts recommendations, a stock screener, company reports, a portfolio section, market indices, news stories, mutual funds, retirement information, bonds, and online forums.  The site also provides information on its commercial products.

Quote.com
Quote.com is a mega site that offers both free and fee-based services.  Free information includes delayed quotes, portfolios, stock reports, charts, news, SEC filings, mutual funds center, IPOs, free email alerts, market indices and an educational center.

Quoteline
Quoteline is a mega site geared  toward international companies and information.  Users can find delayed quotes, company information, a portfolio service, charts, and business news.  There are also some fee-based services such as real-time quotes and email quotes.

QuoteWatch
QuoteWatch offers free delayed quotes and charts, options information, market news and indices, a futures section, and some fee-based services.

Raging Bull
Raging Bull emphasizes its message boards for company information.  Users can search by ticker symbol to access boards or can browse a listing of the most active.  The site also contains quotes (real-time with registration), news, and portfolios.

Real Time Quotes
Free service, but registration is required.  Also offers delayed quotes without registration.

Report Gallery
The Report Gallery compiles Web versions of annual reports, most often from the company's home page.  Users select by first letter of the company name, or by scrolling down an alphabetical list.  In addition to the annual report, most also have a link to the company's home page.  There are over 1,000 companies in the Report Gallery File, some in PDF format.  An "International" gallery provides access to annual reports of companies in the U.K., South Africa, Japan and Korea.

INVESTMENT WEB SITES "S"

SEDAR
SEDAR (System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval) is the Canadian equivalent to the SEC's EDGAR database.  Users can search by company name, industry, or by date of filing.  There is also a section for mutual funds.

Salomon Smith Barney Access
Salomon Smith Barney offers client-based and guest services.  Guests must register, but are given access to news articles, financial calculators, and a "personalized watch list of securities."  The site provides free delayed quotes, market news, upgrades/downgrades, market reports, and educational information.

Savings Bond Wizard
Savings Bond Wizard is a downloadable Windows program that allows users to inventory and determine the redemption value of their savings bonds.  See also:  Bureau of the Public Debt.

Charles Schwab
The investment advisory company does offer free information at its site, including delayed quotes and charts, equity reports, industry information, mutual fund information, and educational resources.   See also http://myscwab.excite.com.

Securities and Exchange Commission
The SEC is the official repository for filings from publicly traded corporations (or those wishing to publicly trade).  See "EDGAR" for a description of the EDGAR database.  The site also maintains information regarding SEC rulemaking, the SEC Digest and public statements, and areas for investor complaints and small business information.

Securities Industry Association
The SIA's membership includes securities brokers, investment banks, mutual fund companies, and other securities traders.  The association issues guidelines, policy statements and provides educational resources for the securities industry.

Silicon Investor
This site (formerly known as TechStocks) is aimed at the technology sector.  Users can enter in ticker symbols or company names to find quotes or news.  Results for quotes also provide links to financials, SEC filings, and EPS estimates.  There are also portfolios, market news stories, a bond market section, upgrades/downgrades, and IPOs.  Free registration is required for some features.

Smart Money
Smart Money magazine offers this companion Web site that offers a lot of information including stock quotes and charts, an hourly stock market update, today's news stories and a searchable database of stories by sector, a portfolio section, investment advise from magazine articles, mutual funds, bonds, and a discussion forum.

Social Investment Forum
SIF is "a national nonprofit membership organization promoting the concept, practice and growth of socially responsible investing."  Included at the site are socially responsible research reports, investment advice, mutual fund information, news, and educational resources.

Standard & Poor's
Home page of the financial information and ratings company.  The site outlines their products in both areas.

Standard & Poor's Personal Wealth
S&P's Personal Wealth offers both free and "premium" services.  Free information includes delayed quotes, up to 50 real-time quotes per day with registration, portfolios, charts, company information, SEC filings, industry information, news, and market indices.

Standard & Poor's Rating Services
This site contains some ratings (mostly new ratings), but is primarily an informational site for S&P's rating products.

Stock Smart
Subscription-based investment information company.  Users can find free stock quotes and company research reports.

StockDetective.com
A service of FinancialWeb.  StockDetective is "devoted to educating investors to the perils of stock market scams and other schemes. Our web site presently is comprised of departments and feature articles."

StockGuide
StockGuide is a site aimed at OTC stocks.  Users can search by ticker symbol for quotes, find SEC filings by company name, get a chart, find a company report, or get a free subscription to the site's newsletter.  Also included are news stories and a chat room.

StockHouse.com
StockHouse.com offers free quotes, portfolios, message boards, news stories, market news and information, and IPOs.  Free membership is required.

StockPicks.com
StockPicks.com has an email alert service in which a list of recommended stocks is sent out.   The site also offers quotes, charts, company research, and SEC filings.

StockPoint
Originally named "Investor's Edge," this company's mission is to " seamlessly integrate financial information technology and content into our clients' Web sites, creating a "look and feel" that complements the site's overall design. Services include such items as real-time stock quotes, portfolio management and analytic tools, company research, and business news."  Free information includes stock quotes and charts, portfolios, market news, and IPOs.

StockScape
StockScape offers free delayed quotes, a registration-required stock quote portfolio, information on U.S. and international markets, and many links to other investment related Web sites arranged by category.

StockTalk
This site is a collection of over 7,800 Web discussion groups, primarily those on individual stocks.  Users can also find stock quotes and company research, "hot stocks," and IPOs.

StockWarrants.com
Fee-based service aimed at the stock warrants (a type of long-term option) market.

Stockz.com
Stockz.com offers free delayed and real-time (with registration) quotes, portfolios, and news.  The site also offers fee-based advisory services.

The Street.com
The Street.com is an online broker, but also has free information which is well marked on its Web site.  Free information includes stock and mutual fund quotes, IPOs, educational resources and market news.

INVESTMENT WEB SITES "T-U"

T-Bills, Notes, and Bonds Online
Site to purchase t-bills, notes, and bonds directly from the government.  See also "Bureau of the Public Debt Online."

T. Rowe Price
Mutual fund and online brokerage company.

TechStocks
See Silicon Investor.

TeleStock
TeleStock provides historical quotes for over 60,000 international stocks, bonds, and options.  Some data is available back to 1995.

Thomson Investors Network
Thomson Investors Network is a mega site offering delayed quotes, real-time quotes (see next entry), portfolios, news, mutual fund, indices, I-watch ("Track activities of market makers before the trade happens"), and an education center.

Thomson Real Time Quotes
Thomson provides up to 100 free real-time quotes per day with registration.  The site also provides company information, news, and interactive charting.

Timely.com
Timely.com is a Web site for securities and industry charts, offering several types of free charting services.  Users can enter a ticker symbol to get charts based on time period.  There are also several options for users to construct charts according to their specifications.  Links on the main page provide the present day's charts for a variety of indices.

Tokyo Stock Exchange
The Tokyo Stock Exchange page contains a list of the companies traded and real-time and historical index charts (most data available from 1968).

TradingCharts.com
TradingCharts.com offers over 30,000 free stock market and commodity futures quotes and price charts. Users select either stocks or options, the type of chart they would like displayed, and the time period.  Intra-day charts are also available.

TradingDay.com
TradingDay.com offers a full-range of Web based investment information.  Users can enter up to ten ticker symbol and are given links to company's quotes, historical daily quotes (one-year maximum), real-time quotes (registration required), earnings, financial statements, news, analysts recommendations, message boards, insider trading information, and SEC filings.  There are also sections for mutual funds, IPOs, and the securities markets.

Trading Direct
Online broker.

TreasuryDirect
TreasuryDirect is the federal government site that allows users to buy bills, notes, and bonds directly from the government without brokers.  Users must open an online account.  There are also links to two related sites, T-Bills, Notes, & Bonds Online and Bureau of the Public Debt Online.

TurtleTrader
TurtleTrader has the premise that successful training can be taught.  The company sells a "complete" training package.

U.S. Savings Bonds Online
This site contains information about savings bonds, calculators, and the "Savings Bond Wizard," a downloadable Windows program for managing savings bonds.  See also "Bureau of the Public Debt Online."

USA Today - Money
Business news from USA Today.  Also provides delayed quotes, portfolios, mutual fund information, IPOs, financial calculators, and a link to "Marketplace," where users can get investment reports from Zacks and a link to EDGAR.

Universal Currency Converter
Foreign exchange rate calculator on the Internet.

INVESTMENT WEB SITES "V-W"

ValueLine
The Web site of the popular investment advisory publication offers a Web subscription service (similar to the print version); a version for print subscribers; and free reports, articles, and company highlights.

Vanguard Group
The Web site for this mutual fund giant contains information about the funds, including quotes and performance history, description, and reports.  Vanguard also uses this site as its online brokerage.  Vanguard's education center provides many resources for investing, tax planning, and retirement planning.

Wachowicz's Web World:  Web Sites for Discerning Finance Students
John M. Wachowicz, Jr. is co-author of Fundamentals of Financial Management, 10th edition, 1998, Prentice-Hall.  He has created this Web site to correspond with the chapters in his book.  Each section contains an alphabetical listing of links.

Wall Street Directory
This Web based directory contains over 50,000 listings for those interested in finance and investing.  Listings include investment firms, educational resources, brokers, etc. Listings can be added by filling out an online form. Users can browse alphabetically, search by keyword, or search by category.  This site also provides a plethora of other resources including news, quotes, and company information.

Wall Street Discount Corporation
Online broker.  The site provides free delayed quotes and mutual fund information.

Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition
Web version of the Wall Street Journal.  Annul subscription is currently $29.  Includes a "Money and Investing" section.

Wall Street Net
Wall Street Net contains market news, a searchable mergers and acquisitions database, delayed quotes, portfolios (with registration), and links to exchanges, accounting firms, and EDGAR.

Wall Street Research Net
This mega site bill itself as "the most comprehensive resource for investors on the Web, mobilizing the best free, for-sale, and in-depth information into one comprehensive, easy-to-use site."  Free information includes delayed quotes, a stock screener, and market new.  Real-time and historical quotes are fee-based.

Wall-Street.com
This site offers a huge arrangement of Web links under categories along the top of the page.  Broad categories include U.S. Domestic Links; Global & Cyber Links; and Fast-Growing Companies.  Each provides an extensive list of relevant links.

WallStreeter.com
WallStreeter.com sells historical data, but also provides free information on American Depository Receipts, links to global exchanges and world market indices.

Waterhouse Securities
Online brokerage firm also offering free delayed quotes and charts.

World Wide Quote
Though primarily an online broker, World Wide Quote has clearly marked "Free Stuff," including delayed quotes, charts, a message forum, financial links, and email alerts.

Worldlyinvestor.com
Worldlyinvestor.com is a mega site providing international investing information for the individual investor.  The site provides international news stories, rankings of stocks and ADRs, and lists ADRs by country and industry.  Users can also find quotes, build portfolios, find market indices, visit the mutual fund center, and have free newsletters emailed.

INVESTMENT WEB SITES "Y-Z"

Yahoo! Finance
Yahoo! Finance is one of the best-known and heavily used investment portals.  Users can find a huge amount of information including delayed quotes, company news, free historical quotes, portfolios (with registration), U.S. and global markets, currency converter, stock screening, broker reports, discussion forums, and links to advisory publications.  Stock quote and portfolio displays are easily customized.

Yahoo! Finance Company and Fund Index
Part of Yahoo! Finance, users can get company news, profiles, quotes and other information by entering a company symbol or searching by company name.

Yahoo! Finance and Investments
Finance and investment links by category.