Business Connections

A selective guide to Internet business, financial and investing resources
By RICH MEISLIN

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| Markets | Investing | Companies | Banking & Finance | Government | Business News | Business Directories | Miscellany |

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Markets

• American Stock Exchange
• Chicago Board of Trade
• Chicago Board Options Exchange
• Chicago Mercantile Exchange
• Kansas City Board of Trade
• Nasdaq and Nasdaq Newsroom
• New York Cotton Exchange
• New York Mercantile Exchange
• New York Stock Exchange
• Philadelphia Stock Exchange
• International Markets
  • Italian Stock Exchange
  • London Stock Exchange
  • Madrid Bolsa
  • Montreal Exchange
  • Paris Bourse
  • Stockholm and Oslo Stock Exchanges
  • SwissInvest.com Swiss Exchange information
  • Tel Aviv Stock Exchange
  • Tokyo Stock Exchange
• Market information
  • Stockmaster and Timely.com have stock quotes, price graphs and market info
  • BigCharts has current market information, charts and historical quotes
  • Thomson Real-Time Quotes Registration required
  • Fast stock quotes from CheckFree
  • Quote.com offers free portfolio quotes, and news and other financial information for a fee
  • Holt Stock Report Collection of stock indices and financial information
  • Canada Stockwatch monitors Canadian exchanges and companies
  • DBC Online Market indexes, quotes and news from Data Broadcasting Corporation

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| Markets | Investing | Companies | Banking & Finance | Government | Business News | Business Directories | Miscellany |

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Investing

• American Association of Individual Investors
• American Expess Financial Advisors has some good personal financial tools
• Cyberinvest.com offers guides and tools for online investors (and hypes its owners' books)
• Fund Alarm Monitors mutual fund performance for "sell" signals
• Investools Research and financial advice newsletters
• Investorama
• Investor.Net
• Investor's Edge
• InvestorGuide Wide array of investing news, statistics and resources
• Investor Protection Trust Basic information about investments and investment professionals
• IPO Central Initial public offering tracking from Hoover's Online and Edgar Online
• IPOnet Information on initial public offerings
• The Money Network News and information from Canadian financial markets
• The Money Page guide to banking and financial information
• MoneyWorld financial information for investors in British markets
• Morningstar Mutual Funds
• The Motley Fool is an entertaining source of investment advice from professionals and amateurs, and gives model portfolios
• Municipal Resource Center Information on municipal issues from R.R. Donnelley Financial
• Mutual Funds Home Page
• National Association of Securities Dealers Recent disciplinary actions against brokers and brokerage firms
• NETworth from the Quicken Financial Network
• Platt's Commodities news and information from Standard & Poor's
• Securities Class Action Clearinghouse from Stanford University Law School
• Securities Fraud and Investor Protection Information from a Massachusetts securities lawyer
• Silicon Investor follows tech stocks with information and comment
• StockScreener from Hoover lets you search for stocks based on performance criteria
• The Street.com Investment information and commentary, with columns from James Cramer
• TechInvestor
• Thomson Investors Network Current market information and "tip sheets" on individual stocks
• Wall Street City
• Wall Street Research Net
• Wright Investors' Service Basic information on 13,000 companies
• Investment Companies & Trading Services
  • Ameritrade offers online trading
  • Dean Witter
  • Dreyfus
  • E*Trade offers online trading
  • Fidelity Investments offers online trading
  • Lombard Institutional Brokerage
  • Merrill Lynch
  • Paine Webber
  • Prudential Securities
  • Charles Schwab Online offers online trading
  • Smith Barney
  • Web Street Securities offers online trading

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| Markets | Investing | Companies | Banking & Finance | Government | Business News | Business Directories | Miscellany |

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Company Information

• Annual Reports Library
• Business Wire
• Companies Online Basic information on 60,000 companies from Dun & Bradstreet and Lycos
• Dun & Bradstreet
• Edgar company database from the S.E.C. WhoWhere's Edgar search may be easier to use.
• FreeEdgar offers S.E.C. filings, sometimes faster than the S.E.C.
• Hoover's Online gives information about 9,500+ public and private companies
• Market Guide gives company information, news and quotes
• Moody's Investors Service
• PR Newswire
• Public Register's Annual Report Service Free annual reports
• Researchmag.com Company-provided and public information on many companies
• Standard & Poor's and their rating service
• Strategis Canadian company information
• Web 100 Top U.S. and international companies on the Web

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| Markets | Investing | Companies | Banking & Finance | Government | Business News | Business Directories | Miscellany |

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Banking & Finance

• Bank of America
• Bankers Trust has financial information in its Markets and Services area
• Bank Rate Monitor mortgage, savings and loan rates for major markets
• Chase
• Citibank
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has demographic and financial information on member banks
• First Chicago Capital Markets includes fixed income research and forecasts
• First Union includes economic forecasts and commentary
• J.P. Morgan includes currency and financial indices and risk management information
• Wells Fargo

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• Deutsche Bank

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| Markets | Investing | Companies | Banking & Finance | Government | Business News | Business Directories | Miscellany |

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Government & Public Organizations

• Central Banking Resource Center by Mark Bernkopf has links to major world central banks and finance ministries
• Commerce Department
• Economic Indicators Monthly The raw data.
• Federal Reserve Banks: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Kansas City, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco
• Federal Reserve Board
• Internal Revenue Service
• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
• Securities & Exchange Commission
• Stat-USA Good economic and trade information from the Commerce Department

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• International Monetary Fund
• Japan Ministry of Finance
• World Bank

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| Markets | Investing | Companies | Banking & Finance | Government | Business News | Business Directories | Miscellany |

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Business & Financial News

• AeroWorldNet coverage of the aerospace industry
• American Banker Online
• American City Business Journals has local business news from 28 cities
• Asia Business News Interactive Asia market reports and headlines
• Bankinfo.com Banking and finance news from Thomson Financial
• Barron's Online
• Bloomberg Personal
• Bridge News Selected news from Bridge Information Services
• Briefing.com offers various levels of market information and analysis for free and fee
• Business Week
• CNNfn
• Crain's New York Business
• The Dismal Scientist has a wealth of economic data and analysis
• EBN Interactive from Europe's 24-hour business news channel
• The Economist
• Entrepreneur magazine
• Euromoney/Worldlink
• Far Eastern Economic Review
• Federal Filings High Yield Daily Wrapup
• Forbes Digital Tool
• Fortune magazine
• ft.com, from the Financial Times, and Financial Times Television
• herring.com from Red Herring magazine
• Hispanic Business
• AFX-Asia Asian business and financial news from the Financial Times, AFP, Nikkei and others
• Inc. Online from Inc. magazine and the Inc. 500
• Investor's Business Daily
• AsiaBizTech, from Nikkei, offers Asian technology news.
• Kiplinger Online
• Money magazine and Money daily
• Newspage Daily business news summaries for various industries from Individual, Inc.
• Reuters Moneynet
• Singapore Business Times Online
• Upside News of the technology industry
• The Wall Street Journal
• Worth Online

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| Markets | Investing | Companies | Banking & Finance | Government | Business News | Business Directories | Miscellany |

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Business Directories

• Streeteye Well organized collection of Wall Street related Web links
• Wall Street Directory Inc. Mind-boggling array of financial references
• International Business Resources from Michigan State University
• BizResource Information for small-business owners and entrepreneurs
• Switchboard Nationwide telephone and address directory
• Directory of toll free numbers
• Big Yellow NYNEX business yellow pages
• BigBook Yellow Pages style business information
• 555-1212.com Guide to national and international phone and e-mail directories
• WhoWhere Telephone, e-mail and other useful guides
• Thomas Register of Manufacturers and Thomas Regional
• Industry.Net business-to-business information from 4,500 companies

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| Markets | Investing | Companies | Banking & Finance | Government | Business News | Business Directories | Miscellany |

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Miscellany

• CEO Express Links to many business related sites
• Dow Jones Business Directory Reviews of business oriented sites
• CareerPath.com, a classified ad service from several papers (including The Times)
• AFL-CIO
• Tips for job hunters, updated daily, from Internet Business Network
• MBA Style Prepare for that interview; dress for success
• e-land finds the Web's best business sites
• Fairmodel, Model of the U.S. economy from Ray C. Fair of Yale
• Final Bell lets you simulate stock activity without losing (or gaining) money
• Currency converter from Olsen & Associates converts from any currency to another
• Salary calculator shows how much you must earn in different cities for comparable standards of living

Maintained by Rich Meislin. Suggestions and comments are welcome.
Last revised 2/21/98.

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