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American Depository Receipts

Search by country, ticker symbol or company name, or by industry.
Locate ADR data by company, region, and industry.

Annual Reports

Banking

Access the BIS annual report, consolidated international banking statistics, working papers, and committee publications.
Central bank and commercial banking statutes, constitutions, plus other unpublished/published works related to central banks and financial systems. Also access an alphabetical listing of central banks from around the world.
Comprehensive list of links to central bank homepages and links to information about the central banks.
Under "Analytical," access reports such as the Quarterly Banking Profile, Regional Outlook, and Regional Economic Conditions. Under "Statistical," access he publications Historical Statistics on Banking and Statistics on Banking.

Bonds/Treasuries

Series EE Bond, Series E Bond, and Series S Notes.
Access regulatory issues, news, and research.
Access current bond news, articles and commentaries, and quotes.
Access a wide range of data concerning savings bonds.
Access recent treasury bill, treasury note, and bond auction results tables. Also locate treasury bill, note, and bond auction history from 1/1/1980 to the present. Also available is the public debt figure and the Monthly Statement of Public Debt.
News for the Americas, Asia/Pacific, and Europe.
Locate information about the role and function, reports, notices, and general information.
Rates for various maturities in the US, Australia, Brazil, Germany, Japan, and UK.

Commodities, Futures, and Options

Bonds, currencies, metals, index options, interest, energy, food, grain, livestock.
News, publications, statistics. (En Espanol)
Daily market news, current and historical statistics, market commentary, and a glossary.
Market quotes, current and historical statistics, and other resources.
Statistics and news.
Click on "Reports and Publications" to access annual reports, occasional papers, budget reports, economic analysis and other statistical reports (e.g. Cotton on Call Report, Deliveries on CBOT US Treasury), opinions and orders, and the strategic plan.
Market data, monthly and weekly statistics, and share prices.
Closing futures prices for major U.S. exchanges.
Cash market data, derivatives market, and prices.
Quotes and charts, market reports, and prices for wheat, Value Line, and natural gas contracts.
Statistics and trade information.
Daily prices, stocks, monthly prices, and monthly volumes.
Contracts traded on the exchange, news, contacts, and historical statistics.
Locate statistics, news, and publications.
Locate weekly volume reports, wheat stocks reports, monthly volume reports, and statistical annuals.
Locate news, quotes, charts, settlement data, futures and options, historical data, commodity codes, and a glossary.
Click on "Market Information," access a daily market report, delayed quotes, historical data, and various trader's reports.
Access working papers related to futures, options, and derivatives.
Access market data and prices.
Access statistics and market prices.

Currency Exchange Rates

Convert currency from around the world. Up to the minute exchange rates.
Current day currency figures from Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa & Middle East, and the Americas.
Locate current and historical foreign exchange rate data.
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Locate historical currency rates.
Access current and historical foreign exchange rates.
Calculate current currency equivalents based on closing rates from the previous trading day.
A Consumer Price Index calculation machine; from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.

Economic and Corporate Research Reports

Encyclopedia

"This glossary with over 5000 financial terms in English, German, French and Italian can be used free of charge for non-commercial use on a query-by-query basis."

Federal Reserve Board

Financial Directories (International)

Search for company and trade names.

Financial Directories (U.S.)

Search for company information by company name, ticker symbol, and keyword.
Access a wide variety of data including company rankings.
Locate the name, address, and phone number for individuals and for over 10 million U.S. businesses.
Search for information by ticker symbol.
Click on "Listed Companies" to access links to corporations listed on the NYSE.
Standard & Poor's: OTC Bulletin Board(R) Companies
Access a list of companies comprising the OTCBB and company-sponsored descriptions.
Search by location (state/province) with either product/service or company name. Registration is free.
Search by stock symbol or company name and access basic financial data.

History

Find details of current exhibitions, tours, and selected articles from their publication Financial History.
Comprehensive list of annotations of monetary history. Report compiled by Roy Davies and Glyn Davies.
Read the classic by Charles MacKay chronicling events such as the Tulipomania and the South Sea Bubble financial calamities.

Initial Public Offerings

Locate recent filings and pricings and news and analysis.

Insurance

Locate home and auto insurance rate guides for states, news, and special reports.
Access background information, financial data, and other information.
Insurance Rating Definitions
Access rating from Standard & Poor's .
Access information about insurance regulators, producers, and companies.

Internet Directories

Covers business addresses for companies in all the states.
Search the yellow and white pages.
Search the white and yellow pages. Also access world directories.
Comprehensive, annotated listing of links to yellow pages, white pages, business directories, and fax listings from all around the world.
Search by business name or by category.

Journals and Scholarly Publications

Locate issues covering electronic commerce and emerging law on the electronic frontier.
Click on "Web Archive" to access full-text articles.
Abstracts of articles that address current and emerging issues.

Mutual Funds

Locate performance and pricing information.
Access brief, non-analytical reports. Also locate articles, interviews, and special reports.
Learn about the basics of mutual fund investing, types of mutual funds, taxes, profiles and performance on no-load mutual funds.
Evaluate the performance of variable annuity, variable life, and variable universal life insurance products. Find background information on annuities, articles, and the variable annuities database.

Organizations

Access the newsletter for economic and financial news about China, information about the organization, and annual conferences.
Overview of the organization, live and archived Webcasts of corporate presentations, and career opportunities.

Public Laws

An Act to provide full and fair disclosure of the character of securities sold in interstate and foreign commerce and through the mails, and to prevent fraud in the sale thereof, and for other purposes.
Full-text access of this important public law.

Real Estate

Under "About REITs," access information a glossary and a company directory. Under "Research & Statistics," access an historical index list, market snapshots, performance statistics, and market capitalization data.
Coverage includes the residential and commercial markets, regional trends, and an overview of real estate trends.

Securities and Exchange Commissions (U.S. and Int'l)

Access financial reports filed with the SEC from 1993 to the present.
Prepared by Price Waterhouse Technology Centre, this Web interface transforms EDGAR data into HTML and Excel(R) spreadsheet formats. Also access data in the regular EDGAR format.
Order free annual reports on over 3,600 public companies. PRARS is solely sponsored by participating companies.
Access regulatory actions, staff interpretations, investor information, and news/public statements.

SIC & NAICS

View in HTML table format, frames format, or download into database or word processing software.
NAICS has replaced the SIC system. Access conversion tables from NAICS to SIC and SIC to NAICS.
Search by keyword(s) and by a specific 4-digit SIC. Also examine the manual structure.

Stock Markets (International)

Alphabetical listing of countries with links to their stock markets.

Stock Markets (U.S.)

Quotes, national and global market news, economy and politics, research and tools, stock research, and commentary.
Find listed companies, the annual report, fact book, stock quotes, and various statistics.
CNNfn Markets
Access the Quote Search service for 15-minute delayed market quotes for any stock, mutual fund or money market fund (enter symbol in top lefthand corner); the U.S. Stock Markets page provides quotes for the AMEX, DJIA, NYSE Composite, NASDAQ Composite, S&P 500, and the Russell 2000. Data includes actives, gainers, high/lows, and volume alerts.
An excellent collection of corporate governance links, corporate governance organizations, corporate governance documents, corporate governance Web pages, and items of general interest.
This site provides some full-text publications focusing on corporate governance, shareholder activism, executive compensation, and institutional investor fiduciary obligation.
Historical Stock Quotes
  • Click on "Historical Quotes" then enter symbol and date. Big Charts has the ability to retrieve exact and split-adjusted stock price information and split adjustment factors as far back as January 1985. A split-adjusted, 2-month daily stock chart marks the specific closing price the User requested.
  • Access stock quotes since 1962. Data includes open, high, low, and closing prices and trading volume.
    • This is a book written by portfolio manager and investment counselor Frank Armstrong.
    Search by stock quotes to retrieve information such as business description, business segments, company overview, and ratio comparison. Also access the company's Beta.
    Access quotes by typing in the ticker symbol (refer to the "symbol look-up" link for a list of companies and their symbols), index quotes and the companies listed in each index, plus a glossary of terms. Under "InfoQuotes" for each company, access information such as fundamentals, charts, news, stock reports (from Disclosure), SEC filings, and analyst information.
    Access quick quotes for a company.
    Under "Market Information," access company information listed by industrs.stanford.edu">Securities Class Action Clearinghouse
    Access filings, decisions, settlements, articles, and papers.
    Be sure and read all the data on the menu.
    Access company profiles, balance sheets, income statements, consensus estimates, company news, and quotes.

    Uniform Commercial Code

    Access the full-text of the UCC. Distributed for limited purposes of study, teaching, and academic research. Note the qualification on the main menu.

    Warrants

    Access information on warrants in Europe and Asia-Pacific.
    Information on German, Swiss, Japanese, and Italian warrants.

     

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