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Business News
- American City Business Journals
http://www.amcity.com/
- Access to local business news & information from metropolitan business newspapers in
many American cities. (Hartford and NYC not included.)
- CNNfn: The Financial Network
http://cnnfn.com/
- Latest news and articles from CNN (the Cable News Network) on US and international
companies, stock markets, currencies and interest rates.
Companies
- Annual Report Gallery
http://www.reportgallery.com/
- IntraGrafix's collection of online annual reports of publicly traded companies.
- Big Yellow / America's National Yellow Pages
http://s17.bigyellow.com/
- Search engine for millions of business in the United States, from NYNEX Information
Technologies
- Forbes International 800
http://www.forbes.com/tool/toolbox/int500/
- Forbes Magazine's list of the top ranking international companies. Listings contain
contact information, web addresses, basic revenue, assets, market value, and stock price
and earnings information. Searchable.
- Fortune 500
http://www.pathfinder.com/fortune/fortune500/
- Information of American's largest companies, with a link to the Global 500 site.
- GTE Superpages
http://superpages.gte.net/
- A nationwide interactive yellow pages & a business web site directory.
- IRIN: Investor Relations Information Network
http://www.irin.com/
- IRIN provides access to companies' online annual reports and press releases in their
original format (Adobe Acrobat Reader required). From Corporate Document Systems
- Public Register's Annual Report Service
http://www.prars.com/
- Request free annual reports from over 3,200 companies through an online order form.
- Thomas Register Online
http://www.thomasregister.com/
- Search this list of manufacturers by company, product and location. Provides contact
information for each company and some online catalogs. Must register to use.
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Consumer Interests
- Bank Rate Monitor
http://www.bankrate.com/
- Rates for mortgages, auto loans, home equity loans, savings, credit cards, and checking
accounts.
- Better Business Bureau
http://www.bbb.org/
- The Better Business Bureau provides contact information for your local bureau by
zipcode, access to business and consumer alerts, business and charity reports and a way to
file a complaint online.
- Currency Exchange Rates Converter
http://www.oanda.com/cgi-bin/ncc/
- View international exchange rates on any date from 1990 to the present.
- Insurance Ratings
http://www.insure.com/ratings/
- Insurance News Network' s site provides consumers with letter-grade ratings for
insurance companies from Standard & Poor's and Duff and Phelps Credit Rating. The
ratings are based on the insurer's ability to pay policyholder claims.
- RAM Research Group
http://www.ramresearch.com/
- Includes access to CardTrak which provides the latest bank credit card surveys.
- SHOP : Credit Card Rates
http://www.bog.frb.fed.us/pubs/shop/
- Infomation on how to choose a credit card and a survey of current credit card plans and
rates. From the Federal Reserve Board
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Investments
- BigCharts
http://www.bigcharts.com
- Charts, reports, indicators and quotes on over 24,000 US stocks, mutual funds, and major
market indexes. Historical quotes back to January 2, 1985. From Concerto Technologies
- CNNfn: The Financial Network
http://cnnfn.com/
- Latest news and articles on US and international companies, stock markets, currencies
and interest rates.
- EDGAR Database of Corporate Information
http://www.sec.gov/edgarhp.htm
- As of May 6, 1996 all public domestic companies are required to file SEC forms
electronically on EDGAR, the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis & Retrieval system.
Sponsored by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
- EDGAR Online People
http://people.edgar-online.com/people/
- Search filings for company position, board memberships, and stock ownership information
about executives. Sponsored by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
- Financial Data Finder
http://www.cob.ohio-state.edu/dept/fin/osudata.htm
- Huge site by the Department of Finance at Ohio State University that points to financial
and economic data available on the Web. Provides links to international sites, sources for
statistics, federal reserve banks, stock exchanges, etc.
- Financial Web
http://www.financialweb.com/
- Free services, including stock picks, quotes, screening, financial data, and commentary.
From Axxess, Inc.
- FundAlarm
http://www.fundalarm.com/
- Personal, noncommercial web site designed to help investors decide when to sell mutual
funds.
- Hoover's Online
http://www.hoovers.com/
- Provides information on more than 10,000 companies. Can be searched by location,
industry and/or sales. Also provides a directory to company home pages, corporate job
listings and links to other business sites.
- Information for
Investors
http://www.cob.ohio-state.edu/dept/fin/cern/cerninv.htm
- Another site from the Department of Finance at Ohio State University. Topics include
personal finances, mutal funds, stocks, bonds, etc.
- Invest-o-rama
http://www.investorama.com/
- Type in a ticker symbol at Research a Stock Online and retrieve links to other
web sites that provide quotes, charts, news, and other company information. By Doug Gerlach
- IQC.com
http://www.iqc.com/quote/history.asp
- Stock quotes back to 1968. Users must be registered.
- Morningstar
http://www.morningstar.net
- This site helps investors learn about mutual funds, plan for the future, research the
best funds for individuals, and how to invest. Includes news and analysis.
- The Motley Fool
http://www.fool.com
- Investment information with a sense of humor. Includes bulletin boards and a
"Fool's School" for new investors.
- Mutual Fund Investor's Center
http://www.mfea.com
- Education is this site's goal. Provides news, information on building your own
portfolio, planning for retirement, tracks fund leaders by category, and some tax
information. Good site for beginners.
- Security APL Market Watch
http://www.secapl.com/secapl/quoteserver/mw.html
- Stock quotes and information on market activity on a fifteen-minute delay for US and
Canadian exchanges. Previous day information for mutual and money market funds. Also has
links to financial planning, savings and commission calculators.
- Stockmaster
http://www.stockmaster.com/
- Recent stock market information, including previous days closing prices and one year
graphs of historical prices. From Marketplace.net Inc.
- Streetnet
http://www.streetnet.com/features/
- Current, in-depth and informative perspectives on forty-five industries and investment
trends with stock pick lists. From the Industry Profiles Library
- Wall Street Research Net
http://www.wsrn.com/
- Contains over 250,000 links to help professional and private investors perform
fundamental research on actively traded companies and mutual funds and locate important
worldwide market news.
- Yahoo! Finance
http://quote.yahoo.com/
- Free tracking of portfolios. Includes wide range of financial information.
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Nonprofits
- Action Without Borders
http://www.idealist.org/
- The WWW site, a project of IdeaList, offers a global directory of more than 8,000
non-profit groups and provides links to people and organizations in 120 countries.
- Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
http://www.gsa.gov/fdac/
- Sponsored by the Office of Budget and Management, the Catalog is a directory of Federal
programs, projects, service and activities which provide assistance to the American
public. It contains financial and nonfinancial assistance programs administered by
departments of the Federal government.
- Chronicle of Philanthropy
http://philanthropy.com/
- Offers news, job announcements, and links to other sites for the non-profit community.
- Cumulative List of
Exempt Organizations
http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/bus_info/eo/eosearch.html
- This website contains the Internal Revenue Service's Publication 78, a cumulative list
of organizations to which donations made will qualify as charitable contributions.
- The Foundation Center
http://fdncenter.org/
- The Foundation Center is an independent non-profit information clearinghouse established
in 1956. It provides links to more than 150 grantmaker Web Sites and informational
materials such as application procedures, annual reports, and programs.
- The Grants Web
http://web.fie.com/cws/sra/sra.htm
- The SRA (Society of Research Administrators)provides links to U. S. and Canadian
government sources as well as private funding resources.
- Guidestar: The Donor's Guide to the Nonprofit
Universe
http://www.guidestar.org/
- Philanthropic Research, Inc. provides brief financial profiles of over 600,000
nonprofits nationwide.
- The Internet Nonprofit Center
http://nonprofits.org/
- The Center provides links to the web sites of more than seventy non-profit groups and to
the "Nonprofit Locator," a searchable data base of IRS data on charities in the
United States.
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Planning / Operations
- NAICS
http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/naics.html
- The North American Industry Classification System provides common industry definitions
for Canada, Mexico, and the U.S., replacing each countries' separate classification
systems.
- Small Business Administration
http://www.sbaonline.sba.gov/
- Information sources for starting, financing, & expanding a business, plus links to
other business sources & the SBA gopher.
- Uniform Commercial Code
http://www.law.cornell.edu/ucc/ucc.table.html
- The Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School provides access to text of the
Uniform Commercial Code and information on its implementation in various states.
- U. S. Business Advisor
http://www.business.gov/
- Access to Federal government information, sources, and transactions.
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Statistics
- American Demographics
http://www.demographics.com/
- Cowles Business Media provides information and demographics for consumer markets and for
emerging consumer trends.
- Bank Rate Monitor
http://www.bankrate.com/
- Rates for mortgages, auto loans, home equity loans, savings, credit cards, and checking
accounts.
- Consumer Price Indexes
http://stats.bls.gov/cpihome.htm
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics price index data and background.
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Updated January 13, 1999
Special thanks to Karen Pollach of the Multnomah County Library