Money Matters
Banks and Banking:
- ABA Banking Journal - Online version of the ABA Banking Journal, the monthly magazine of the American Bankers Association. The site provides free full-text access to the current and past issues of the magazine.
- Bank for International Settlements (BIS) - Homepage of the Bank of International Settlements, an international organization that fosters cooperation among central banks and other agencies in pursuit of monetary and financial stability. The site provides international banking statistics and links to central banks.
- Bank Information Center (BIC) - Homepage of the Bank Information Center, a non-profit organization that provides information and strategic support to non-governmental organizations and social movements in developing countries on the projects, policies, and practices of the World Bank and other Multilateral Development Banks. The site provides information about projects and policy debates by region, toolkits for activists, information about U.S. Government oversights of the Multilateral Development Banks, and links to other organizations who monitor the impacts of multilateral development bank lending.
- Federal Reserve - The site provides information about monetary policies, the banking structure, the payment system, banking regulations, and banking statistics and reports. The site also provides consumer banking information including information about credit cards, home mortgages, vehicle leasing, personal finance, and identity theft.
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) - Homepage of the FDIC, the governmental agency that provides insurance protection for depositors if their bank fails and is responsible for supervising certain savings banks and state-chartered banks that are not members of the Federal Reserve System. The site provides information about deposit insurance, statistical data about the banking industry, banking laws and regulations, and information about buying assets from or selling assets to the FDIC.
- Foreign Central Banks - Directory of links to foreign central banks arranged by country and provided by the U.S. Federal Reserve Board.
- Inter-American Development Bank - Homepage of the Inter-American Development Bank, a development institution that was established to help accelerate economic and social development in Latin America and the Caribbean. The site provides country economic and environmental assessments, information about proposed and approved economic development projects, and information about the ethics involved in development. The site provides translations in English, French, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish.
- International Monitary Fund (IMF) - Homepage of the IMF, an international organization established to promote international monetary cooperation, exchange stability, and orderly exchange arrangements; to foster economic growth and high levels of employment; and to provide temporary financial assistance to countries to help ease balance of payments adjustment. The site provides country information, information about internationally recognized standard and codes of good economic policy making, information about emerging markets, and macroeconomic policies. The site provides translation in English, French, German, and Spanish.
- National Information Center (NIC) - Provides comprehensive information on banks and other institutions for which the Federal Reserve has a supervisory, regulatory, or research interest including both domestic and foreign banking organizations operating in the U.S.
- World Bank Group - Homepage of the World Bank Group, which is one of the world's largest sources of development assistance and works in coordination with the governments of developed and developing countries and other partners in the development community to combat world poverty. The site provides country information, socio-economic statistics arranged by country and by topic, and information about development topics, projects, and reports.
Financial and Investment Information:
- Bloomberg - Homepage of Bloomberg LP, an information services, news, and media company that serves customers worldwide and provides the latest financial, stock, and market news. The site provides stock market snapshots, profit warnings, analysts ratings, financial calculators, personal finance tips, retirement strategies, and the latest bond, currency, interest, and mortgage rates.
- Bond Market Association - Homepage of the Bond Market Association, which represents securities firms and banks that domestically and internationally underwrite, trade, and sell debt securities (municipal bonds, U.S. Treasury securities, federal agency securities, mortgage and other asset-backed securities, corporate debt securities, money market instruments, and repos). The site provides information about bond market practices, issues, news, and research/statistics.
- Bonds Online - Provides bond market news, research, and investor resources. The site also features an online trading component as well as a bond search and quote service for corporate, municipal, treasury, and savings bonds.
- BradyNet - Provides information about emerging market's fixed income such as prices, ratings, new issues, news, research, and analysis about bonds, exotic debt, futures, and options on futures.
- Business Finance - Directory of funding sources and services for American businesses. Provides links to commercial business loan lenders, equipment finance/leasing firms, government business loan providers, commercial real estate lenders, investment banking/brokerage firms, venture capital investment firms, and private (angel) investors.
- CNN Money - Site provided by CNN and Money Magazine that provides financial news, market and stock information, personal finance tips, financial calculators, and information about other money issues.
- Daily Stocks - Stock research site that allows users to register and create an id for free in order to personalize the site with stock picks that the user is most interested in tracking. In addition to providing stock quotes and data, the site provides the historical financials, company comparisons with competitors, stock charts, and reports from analysts.
- Financial Forecast Center - Source for information about current economic indicators, stock indices forecasts, currency exchange forecasts, and historical financial data.
- Financial Ratios: Summary - Source for financial ratio definitions and equations. The site includes liquidity analysis ratios, profitability analysis ratios, activity analysis ratios, capital structure analysis ratios, capital market ratios, and return on assets.
- Financial Times - Online version of the U.S. Edition of the Financial Times, a London-based financial newspaper that reports worldwide business news. The site provides the free full-text access to current news articles and allows users to view articles by industry and company name. The site also provides Financial Times industry and country surveys as well as links finance and investing resources.
- FinWeb - Financial economics directory created and managed by James R. Garven, Ph.D of at Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business.
- Investor Guide - Guide to investing information and sites on the Internet. The site provides information about stocks, mutual funds, bonds, venture capital, currency, commodities, options, futures, and personal finance.
- Moody's Investor Service - Homepage of Moody's Investors Service, a global credit rating, research, and risk analysis firm that publishes credit opinions, research, and ratings on fixed-income securities.
- Morningstar - Homepage of Morningstar, a provider of mutual fund, stock, and variable-annuity investment information. The Springs Business Library at USC has a current subscription to the paper version of the Morningstar Mutual Funds biweekly guide.
- Motley Fool - Homepage of a financial education company that provides saving and investing strategies, personal finance tips, and information about retirement. The site also provides stock quotes and market charts and features a portfolio manager.
- Mutual Funds Investor Center - Homepage of the Mutual Fund Education Alliance, a non-profit trade association of the no-load mutual fund industry. The site a collection of mutual fund companies, website links, fund listings, and tools for planning, tracking, and monitoring investments.
- Pink Sheets - Homepage of Pink Sheets LLC, the leading provider of pricing and financial information for the over-the-counter (OTC) securities markets. The site provides OTC market data including daily changes, venue changes, trading statistics, a list of quote request leaders, and an alphabetical stock list.
- Standard and Poor's - Homepage of Standard and Poor's, a provider of credit ratings and risk analysis. The site provides information about the S&P 500 and analysis on market-moving stocks and industries.
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) - Homepage of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, a federal government agency that protects investors and maintains the integrity of the securities markets. The site provides information about regulatory actions, investor information, litigation, and investor compliant data as well as provides access to the Edgar database of company financial report filings.
- Valueline - Homepage of Value Line, which publishes information on stocks, mutual funds, special situations, options and convertibles. The site provides investing guides, a stock finder, a portfolio manager, and financial calculators. The Springs Business Library has a current subscription to the paper version of the Value Line Investment Survey, a comprehensive source of information and advice on stocks, industries, the stock market, and the economy.
- Virtual Finance Library - Directory of finance sites provided by Ohio State's Department of Finance and part of the WWW Virtual Library.
- Wachowic's Web World - Directory of financial management websites created by John Wachowicz to correspond with the book entitled Fundamentals of Financial Management, which he and James Van Horne wrote and Prentice-Hall published in 2001.
- Yahoo! Finance
- This site for investing and personal finance provides U.S. and international stock quotes with minimal delay when markets are open, as well as historical stock quotes and other market information. Additional investment topics include general financial news, industry news, annual reports, and mutual fund, bond, and option information. Also includes links to more than 20 international sites. Personal finance subjects include loans, insurance, and taxes.
Money:
- Bank Rate Monitor - Consumer finance marketplace that provides information about banking, investing, taxes, small business finance, mortgages, credit cards, new and used automobile loans, money market accounts, certificates of deposit, checking and ATM fees, home equity loans and online banking fees.
- Bankruptcy Data - Business bankruptcy resource that provides access to information on thousands of business bankruptcy filings from over 80 federal bankruptcy districts. The site provides bankruptcy headlines, links to bankruptcy courts by state, a glossary of bankruptcy terms, The Business Bankruptcy Database is available through a subscription or pay-per search/view basis.
- Euro - Official Euro information site, which provides a euro converter, conversion rates, and other information about the Euro currency. The site provides translations in various languages.
- Homestore - Directory of resources about buying a home, renting, financing and insurance, moving, home improvements, and other issues about homes. The site provides a mortgage calculator, a moving calculator, and a salary/cost of living calculator.
- Money Management International - Homepage of Money Management International, which is a nonprofit, community service organization that provides professional financial guidance, counseling, community-wide educational programs and debt management assistance to consumers.
- SmartMoney - Online version of SmartMoney Magazine, which provides full text articles of the current issue as well as current news and updates from the stock market, resources and guides to help with personal finance, and current information about bonds and economic indicators.
- Universal Currency Converter - Currency tool that allows you to perform interactive foreign exchange rate calculations on the Internet using live currency rates.
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