Research Guides: Investment
Large Sites and General Guides
- Bloomberg WebSite - This web site is a scaled down version of Bloomberg's financial information service. However, it remains one of the best sources for information on ongoing activity within the world's financial markets, including equity indexes; stock, bond, and commodity prices; currency exchange; interest rates; and mutual funds.
- Daily Stocks - Another excellent place to begin your search for information on stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. Enter a company and you are linked to quotes, charts, news, SEC Filings, research Rpts, earnings estimates, magazine articles, fundamentals.
- Investopedia.com - A complete, unbiased, and easy to understand educational guide to investing and personal finance. The site includes a comprehensive investing dictionary on the web as well as tutorials and articles covering just about every area of the market.
- InvestorGuide.com - InvestorGuide is a full service investment portal and includes news wires of investment news from reputable sources such as CNNfn, Washington Post, Forbes, and MSNBC. Users may sign up for either a daily or weekly newsletter, along with "Tomments and Tommentary," the comments and commentary of InvestorGuide CEO Tom Murcko. The site tour is highly recommended as it gives a thorough introduction to this large Website.
- Morningstar - Morningstar on the net includes information about approximately 15,000 publicly traded mutual funds and stocks. Free registration provides access to portfolio tracking and analysis as well as sections and tools for learning about mutual funds, financial planning, researching, and investing. A Conversations section allows discussions on investment topics. This is a very highly regarded source of information, especially on mutual funds.
- SocialFunds.com - SocialFunds.com has over 1000 pages of strategic content to help you make informed investment decisions regarding socially responsible investing.
- Yahoo!Quotes - An excellent place to begin looking for information on stocks, bonds, and mutual funds.
Stocks
- Bob Brinker's list of useful investment web sites - Bob Brinker, moderator of a widely syndicated radio show called Money Talk, maintains a very nice list of web links covering banks, bonds, financial news and information, mutual funds, online trading, stock exchanges, etc.
- Fidelity Investments Center - Mostly about their products/services but if you click on Research you can find summary information about stock prices and the companies.
- QuoteCom - Provides stock prices, charts, news and world stock information.
Bonds
- Investing in Bonds - This site is produced by The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) and lets you track corporate bonds, as well as Treasuries and municipal bonds.
- SIFMA.org - The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association(SIFMA) represents the industry which powers the global economy and was created by the merger of the Bond Market Association and The Securities Industry Association. The web site is currently under development but will have information and news about the securities industry by the end of 2007.
- Treasury Direct - TreasuryDirect is the first and only financial services website that lets you buy and redeem securities directly from the U.S. Department of the Treasury in paperless electronic form. From this site product information and research across the entire line of Treasury Securities, from Series EE Savings Bonds to Treasury Notes is available. TreasuryDirect accounts offer Treasury Bills, Notes, Bonds, Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS), and Series I and EE Savings Bonds in electronic form in one convenient account. From the Tools bar, you can find a savings bond calculator which will price Series EE, E, I bonds, and Savings Notes.
Mutual Funds
- FundAlarm - Provides objective information to help individual investors make the mutual fund "sell" decision.
- Mutual Fund Connection - This is the site of the Investment Company Institute, the national association of American investment company industry. The section on Mutual Fund Facts and Figures includes general data on the mutual fund industry.
- Mutualfundsnet - Mutualfundsnet is an industry directory specific to mutual funds and related information. They identify, review, and regularly update product sponsors and distributors, jobs, news, and regulatory and resources relevant to the mutual fund industry.
- Yahoo: Finance – Mutual Fund Center - General site where you can find current and historical prices; charts; company profiles of various mutual funds; fund screeners; lists of top performers; investor education.