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Research Tools

It is possible to do rather serious research on the Web equivalent to any library excursion. Company fundamentals, ratios, prices , annual reports and news as current as any brokerage research report. Search engines such as Alta Vista can bring thousands of references and archival material to your computer. Here is a list of resources for building benchmarks, indices or company reports and finding historical databases -tli

Annual Reports - Company Data Links Benchmarks-Analysis Business Schools - Business Associations - Software Historical Data Links (new)

Benchmarks - Analysis Links

• American Stock Exchange(AMEX) Good Company links.
• BARRA Portfolio Creators of the S&P Value and S&P Growth Indexes; Investment Software
• CDA Wiesenberger Mutual Fund Data Service M/F Aggregate indices.
• Chicago Mercantile Exchange - Foreign and Domestic Futures Indexes
• Compustat Fee Data Service with comprehensive stock and company information.
• CRSP Data - Center for Research in Security Prices -University of Chicago. Stock , Bond, Prices and speciality indices.
• Market Information- Data services and market indicators Global indicators in over 175 countries.
• Dow Jones Averages Dow Jones Information service.
• Emerging Markets Companion - Index , ADR and Market information.
• Barings Bank indicators. Emerging markets and research
• Frank Russell - Russell Stock Indices F. A. Russell - Descriptions of Russell Stock Indices Russell 2000 U.S and International Canada, Japan, Australia.
• Fannie Mae Lender data, property search and earnings data.
• First Call - Earnings Estimates and research.
• FTSE International (Financial Times) FTSE International Footsie Index, Financial Times (100)
• FRB St. Louis (FRED) Federal Reserve Board St. Louis - Great treasury and Historical Data series.
• Gross Domestic Product BEA Economic Indicators
• Hambrecht & Quist - Technology indices including the internet, investment banking.
• I/B/E/S Institutional Brokers Estimate Service - Earnings Estimates, Concensus Ranking of Companies, Forecasts and Suprises.
• International Monetary Fund - World exchanges and banking.
• Lipper Analytical Services - Lipper Indexes, Mutual Fund ; Equity & Bond.
• Market Data Link...for the Securities Information Professional
• Mobius Group Research Investment Manager Database - Software Analysis
• Morgan Stanley MSCI global equity indices, countries regions and 3000+ indices. Emerging Markets.
• Morningstar Mutual Fund data service and Style and objective indices.
• New York Stock Exchange NYSE NYSE Data and Index including links to companies.
• Prices's List of Lists Listing of searchable databases.
• Profit Information Services Service site with charts.
• STAT-USA/Internet, a service of the U.S. Department of Commerce
• S&P - Standard & Poors Indexes Standard & Poors S&P 500, Growth, Value and S&P indices.
• Stockmaster - Investment collection and Index Directory
• Thomas Cook - Foreign Exchange rates and trading
• USA Today Money - Market Indexes. Nice table of indexes and Dow information.
• Value Line Stock, Value Line information and historical data.
• Vestek Systems, Inc. Market analysis software and sector analysis. Excellent resource.
• Variable Annuities Online Listings and info on VA's
• Wall Street Directory, Inc - Stock prices and historical data
• Wilshire Associates - Wilshire 5000 and Style Indices information. (Historical also)
• Yahoo Finance - Index and market page for Yahoo!
• Zacks Investment Research, Inc. Zacks Investment Research, Inc.

Historical Data

• Historical Data links: some are subscription some are free.

  AgriBiz Markets and Analysis	Historical Prices on Commodities
  BARRA Portfolio	Download historical csv files for S&P 500, Large/Mid/Small Cap Growth and Value
  BigCharts	Historical Data can be retreived from Charts
  Bureau of Public Debt Links	Treasury Auction rates and Bonds
  Brady Net	Historical Brady Bond Prices
  Chadwick Investment Group	Historical Data Links by Company
  Commodity Systems, Inc.	Historical Downloads & on CD
  Compustat	Subscription (Research/Backtest) Data
  Corporate Information	Links to Historical Data Sites
  Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP)	Comprehensive collection of standard and derived security data available for the NYSE, AMEX and Nasdaq Stock Market
  Data Broadcasting Corporation	Quote Service
  Market Information (Datastream)	Subscription access to Historical Data
  DRI/McGraw-Hill Historical Data	Global Economic and Financial Indexes
  EconWPA	DJ to 1903, Washington University
  FactSet	Financial equity research and databases.
  Federal Reserve Board	T-Bill, Foreign Exchange and Bond
  First Call	Quantitative Service, Estimates and Fundamentals
  Fund Manager	Historical Price files (zip) for FM Software
  Global Financial Data	Historical Data to 1700 ?
  International Price Indexes	BLS Import/Export by Category
  IQC.com	Charts and Historical Price lookup by date.
  Market Data Source	$ Downloadable Data reasonable fees.
  Marketsource Online	$ Stock and Index downloads in ASCII
  Market Guide	Screening database has Histories from 1/89
  Media General Financial	Common stock database summary and price history.
  Microsoft Investor	Download the MSN Software to access research wizard. Then use price history.
  Moby Data	Historical Files for Subscription $
  NIKKO Index History	NIKKO historical series
  NASD Market Data	Downloadable data and research
  Philadelphia Stock Exchange	See site map for sectors and downloadable data.
  Quote Central	Historical Prices adjusted for splits.
  StockWiz	Downloadable Historical Data for S&P 500 Stocks
  StockTools	Quotes, 10+ year historical data on many NYSE
  University of Tulsa Data Links	Historical Stock Quote sites
  Wilshire Associates	Wilshire 5000 and Style Historical Data
  Washington University S/L Economics	Historical Data files and papers
  Yahoo Finance	Go to a quote, then select chart and then table (at bottom) and time e.g. weekly when the table appears a historical data table is available. Free! Just drop it into your spreadsheet.

Annual Reports - Industry and Company News and Research

• Annual Reports - Links for finding Annual Reports
• The BigBook Search for 11 million companies by name, location, type of business, or combinations. Name, address, telephone number and business type given. Includes a detailed map, with a zoom-in feature to the city block.
• The Blue List - Municipal and Corporate Bond Ratings.
• Berkshire Hathaway Inc. - Links to Berkshire companies and Warren Buffet's comments.
• Business Information Sources Selective guide with some emphasis on UK sources
• Industry - Business to Business A virtual Business to Business Yellow Pages, Find out about the latest Capital outlays and industry innovations.
• CEO Express - Company rankings in industries via various publications e.g. Fortune 500.
• CIA World Fact Book CIA World Fact Book - Data sheets on many countries political and economic environments.
• Corporate Information - Link site has company profiles and Links EXCEPTIONAL!
• Country Sites - Global Links to sites in countries around the world, Find business information by country many are government run sites.
• CUSIP - CUSIP Service Bureau, operated by Standard & Poor's.
• CUSIP - NAVA Insurance product CUSIP numbers.
• Daiwa Institute of Research Daiwa Institute of Research Financial Research. (Faima)
• Dilbert - Scott Adams Business observations from cubeville.
• Dun & Bradstreet Web Server Dun & Bradstreet Web Server Search millions of U.S. companies and receive Business background reports on the web - billing is via credit card. Also includes News & Views and Business Trends sections. Also see D&B million dollar database on Companies.
• eoffering.com Site for IPO news and trading.
• E&P Directory of On-line Newspapers Links to Newspapers world wide. Check grain prices in Sri Lanka, Look for British Air fares and business outlooks in Germany.
• EDGAR (SEC) Electronic Data Gathering Analysis and Retrieval . Electronic reporting to the SEC.
• Patent Information on the World Wide Patent Information on the World Wide Web
• Europages European Business & Economic (IMF etc.) sites and links - Top Notch Global Site!
• Hoover's on-line Data on companies profiles, news, financials, officers, web address, etc.
• invest-o-rama Research Reports, Quotes and many links to Mutual Funds and charts.
• IQC.com Stock search and Chart site.
• J.J. Kenny Fixed income evaluation services.
• Market Guide Data , key ratios, capiatalization, PE, shares outstanding etc.
• Natural Business -Stock and information
• Silicon Investor Tech stocks and information.
• Stock Talk - Discussion and chat boards for stocks and IPO's
• SIC Codes SIC Codes - find industry sectors.
• Thomas Register of American Manufactures
• WorldClass Link site for business web sites.

Business Schools - Associations - Financial Software - Reference

• U.S. News Business School Rankings 1999
• Business Schools Yahoo! Business school links.
• Carnegie Mellon - Financial Software FAST program Carnegie Mellon
• Center for Latin American Capital Center for Latin American Capital Markets Research
• Dartmouth College's Financial link site.
• Dr. Yardeni Economist at Deutsche Bank Securities. Weekly Analysis.
• Economic Statistics Briefing Room (ESBR) Federal Economic Indicators.
• Finance & Quotes on Yahoo Yahoo search engine's business site, quotes, listings and related links. Good Quote Server.
• Finance Watch Links include Finance Society Geneva, Helpful training resources.
• Financial Dictionary Financial Dictionary. TIAA-CREF At Your Service on the Net. Find financial term definitions and usages.
• Foreign marketing Foreign marketing LSU library
• Galileo Georgia University System Database searches. Great listing of research databases public and private.
• Glossary of Financial Terms Glossary of Financial Terms
• Ibbotson Stocks, Bonds and Inflation, Analytical and Planning Software.
• Institute & Faculty of Actuaries Institute & Faculty of Actuaries. Involved in the design and management of indices since the early 1900's.
• Internet Business LibraryAn excellent subject index to business and economic information.
• Investor Relations Information Network The Investor Relations Information Network is a single location on the WWW where investors, shareholders, and money managers have instant access to companies' annual reports, quarterlies, fact books and press releases in their original format.
• Libraries On-line Libraries On-line - University site.
• Newspapers of the world On line links to newspapers around the United States and the world. Great travel info.
• Ohio State Finance Department Financial data finder, course reading lists, library and journal information. Excellent place for Arbitrage and Modern Portfolio Theory
• Research-It! Research-it Starting point for many web searches. Good Starting Point for web searches.
• Roget's Thesaurus Roget's Thesaurus.
• Stanford School of Business Stanford Finance and Business pages and links.
• Streetlink Latest quarterly reports from many public companies, also includes press releases.
• The Financial Data Finder The Financial Data Finder
• The Pitbull Investor Free Weekly Selections and Trading Information
• Thomas J. Long Business & This is one in a series of research guides produced by the Thomas J. Long Business & Economics Library at the Haas School of Business University of California
• Thomas Register of American Thomas Register of American Manufacturers.
• UK Equities Direct Stocks, ADR's and company listings in the UK
• U S Census Bureau US Census Bureau Home Page.
• Historical Census Data Browser
• Mike Middleton's Web Site at the University of San Francisco Monte Carlo Simulator add in for Excel.
• U.S. Postal Service Zip Code Lookup U.S. Postal Service Zip Code Lookup
• U.S. Statistical Abstract U.S. Statistical Abstract
• U.S. Tax Code Online U.S. Tax Code Online. Access to the complete text of U. S. Internal Revenue Service Code, Title 26 of the U.S. Code (26 USC)
• U.S. Business Advisor - Links to government for business. Information for doing business with the U.S.
• Webster's Dictionary Webster's Dictionary.
• webCAT Listing of on -line searchable databases in libraries around the world.
• Who's Who in investing - Web presence for well known investors. Buffet, Soros, Lynch, Markowitz, etc.
• Dr. William F. Sharpe Professor of finance, Stanford. Model Information.
• World population clock World population clock
• World Wide Web (WWW) Frequently World Wide Web (WWW) Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
• Yale Finance Dr. Goetzmann - professor's home page and reading list.
• Yellow Pages Yellow Pages - On-line

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