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Websites
The
websites listed are not the only websites available for finance or investment
information. For a complete list of websites recommended by the business
librarian, please refer to the master list found in the Recommended
Websites section of our business and public management webpages.
- Big
Charts
www.bigcharts.com
This is a free site that provides access to professional-level research
tools such as interactive charts, quotes, industry analysis and intraday
stock screeners, as well as market news and commentary.
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Morningstar
www.morningstar.com
Morningstar provides insightful
information on stocks, mutual funds, variable annuities, closed-end
funds, and over 500 college savings plans.
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Motley
Fool
www.fool.com
This site strives to educate, amuse and enrich individual investors
through its multimedia financial education company.
- Treasury
Direct
www.savingsbonds.gov
This site offers product information and research across the entire
line of Treasury Securities, from Series EE Savings Bonds to Treasury
Notes. The new TreasuryDirect accounts offer Treasury Bills, Notes,
Bonds, Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS), and Series I and EE Savings
Bonds in electronic form in one convenient account.
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Reference
The following list of titles may be found in the Business Reference Department
of the Spencer Road Branch Library. To locate other print resources on
finance and investment, please search the library's
catalog.
Morningstar Mutual Funds
BR 332 Morningstar
The standard source for mutual fund ratings. The entry for each mutual
fund provides the fund's objective, the fund manager's credentials, past
performance figures, comparisons to the performance of various indexes,
a tax analysis, a risk analysis, an analysis of the fund's portfolio,
an overall fund analysis, and Morningstar's exclusive numerical fund rating.
A major portion of the information contained within this publication is
also available online at the following: www.morningstar.com.
Weiss Ratings' Guide to
Common Stocks
BR 332 Weiss
Offered as an alternative to ValueLine and Standard & Poor's, Street.com
tends to be tougher on stocks than either of them (and also completely
free of conflict of interest). The guide contains numerous sections -
general listing providing basic statistics and ratings; a list of the
top 200 common stocks; a list of the bottom 200 common stocks; the 100
best and worst common stocks rated by performance; the 100 best and worst
common stocks rated by risk; the top-rated common stocks by risk category;
the top-rated common stocks by industry; and an appendix that includes
information useful in understanding how investment works.
Value Line Investment Survey
(Basic & Expanded)
BR 332.67 Value
A source that provides information about various stocks. Included in the
entry for each stock is a brief commentary, past performance, financial
information about the company, current information about the stock's price,
price-earnings ratio, and dividend yield. Also included are Value Line's
Timeliness, Safety, and Technical Ratings. The Expanded edition of the
Value Line Investment Survey covers small- and mid-cap stocks that are
not included in the regular edition.
Street.com Ratings' Ultimate
Guided Tour of Stock Investing
BR 332 Weiss
This book provides information on investing to the novice investor. Ratings
on stocks, an investment glossary, and strategies on investing are given
in this book.
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Databases
The library district subscribes to several online databases that may help
you with your research. Those with a "Remote Access" button
can be used from your home computer with a valid library card.
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Following
the link to the electronic databases will take you out of the Business
& Public Management web pages and into the main library pages.
Go to the library's Electronic
Databases for Business & Public Management to find the databases
purchased specifically to support business services.
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For information
regarding finance and investment, you may want to try Standard &
Poor's Net Advantage or the Wall Street Journal.
These are not
the only databases available to assist you, please check out the entire
list of databases to see if there is something that better meets your
needs.
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