This page contains interesting links to websites pertaining to corporate finance, personal financial planning, and investments. Enjoy!
One caveat is in order: because the internet is, by its very nature, a transient medium, any list of websites is always subject to "LINK ROT" - the possibility that some links will no longer be working or will have moved elsewhere. If you find that is the case for one (or more) of the links listed below, please e-mail me so it can be corrected. And if you are so inclined, I would be more than happy to add additional links that you have found to be useful. Happy hunting!
eRaider.com is dedicated to empowering shareholders through both education and organization. Here is the education part. Reading these links will teach you everything you need to know to select and manage a company. If not? Ask any remaining questions you have, or post stuff we left out, on the message boards. If you're a novice, here's how to become an expert. If you're an expert already, here's where to share your talents and hone your skills with the finest minds from academia and Wall Street." What I find particularly interesting is that some of the best academic minds in America offer to answer questions from students (and faculty) at the site. Give this one a try!
Internal Revenue Service home page. (Why does this organzation have such a great-looking home page??)
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission home page. Look here for free, downloadable firm filings.
Hoover's has rapidly become one of the best sources of free and fee-based business information and links on the web. (True Finance geeks can spend hours playing with the stock screens at Hoover's stockscreener.com).
Companylink is another source of company profiles. At last count, this site provided access to approximately 65,000 (!) profiles.
Zack's is one of the premier sources of business information on the web (especially when it comes to company earnings figures).
Fidelity online bond calculator
Another online bond calculator
And here are three sources of bond rating information:
Fitch Investors Service home page
Standard & Poors home page
Dun & Bradstreet home page
Online24 sends frequent e-mail to its subscribers covering assorted investment-related topics.
iMark.com allows the thrifty CFO to search for the capital equipment s/he needs, either by keyword, equipment category, model number, price, condition, etc.!
TradeOut.com bills itself as "the business-to-business exchange for excess inventory and idle assets." Check out the number of categories at this site!
Federal Reserve Bank of St.Louis home page - look here for dozens of downloadable data files!
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago home page
Bloomberg's home page contains online yield curve information
Eduvest's home page provides information on the firm's proprietary stock valuation model
New York Stock Exchange home page
American Stock Exchange home page
NASDAQ home page
Click on www.roguemarket.com to "trade" celebrities!
And, of course, there are many, many sources of free securities price quotes available!
Bloomberg's site
Bid and ask information on stocks
Standard and Poor's quote service
Stockmaster was a pioneer quote provider
Investors edge quotes
PCQuote quotes
Quote.com quotes
Moneynet quotes
www.thompsonrtq.com free real-time quotes
Zacks's site
The Wall Street Research Network provides many useful Wall Street-related links
The following sites are designed primarily for investors:
www.americanskandia.com This site contains an online Roth IRA calculator
For those who find the EMH unsatisfying, check out the Behavioral Finance research downloadable at Ibbotson Associates sells data on capital structures for U.S. industry segments (as well as many other types of financial data)
Bankrupt.com is a good source of information on bankrupt firms
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Here's an interesting page for those who want some insight into how
venture capitalists operate
The number of sites devoted to IPOs is astonishing. Here are some of the best
ones:
www.usatoday.com/money/mipo.htm
www.ipolockup.com tracks the timing
of lockup expirations for all Initial Public Offerings.
Norwest Bank provides cash management services to large corporate customers. Check 'em out here!
Dun and Bradstreet's home page provides news and information on their credit and collections services, as well as timely articles of interest to those in the field of short-term finance.
Topics related to international finance can be found on several web sites. For example, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago offers a large, downloadable file containing daily exchange rate data, while online currency calculators can be found at Bloomberg's web site.
If you need currency data (current or historical), go to oanda.com. You'll find an exchange rate calculator, as well as a historical rate retrieval tool.
On the other hand, information on doing business globally is available. And Bloomberg's web site contains international yield curve data. Finally, international financial statistics can be found at www.ifc.org.
Below are some exchanges on which derivatives are traded:
Chicago Board Options Exchange
London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange
Here's an interesting site - The creators of www.mergernetwork.com bill their site as the "M & A Marketplace", and provide information for those wishing to buy companies and to sell companies, as well as discussion groups dealing with merger-related regulatory, accounting, and tax issues, and merger-related news headlines.
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