Yahoo!
Finance is the top financial news and
research website in the United States, with more than 18
million visitors in May 2008. Yahoo! Finance offers
information including stock quotes, stock exchange
rates, corporate press releases and financial reports,
and popular message boards for discussing a company's
prospects and stock valuation.
CNBC is a
US business news site, owned and operated by NBC
Universal. The network covers business headlines and
provides live coverage of financial markets. The
network is currently ranked as the 19th most
valuable cable channel in the U.S., worth roughly $4
billion.
The Financial Times (FT)
is a British international business newspaper. The FT
has specialized in reporting business and financial news
while maintaining an independent editorial outlook. It
is full of comprehensive articles and full daily reports
on the world markets. NOTE: The site only allows you to
view 3 articles a month without giving them an e-mail
address. Once an address is registered for free you can
view up to 10 articles a month. For unlimited access you
have to subscribe for $3.44 per week. Although most of
you guys aren't going to subscribe there are some very
good articles on there, and you might as well check out
the free ones.
Investopedia is one
of the Internet's largest sites devoted entirely to
investing education. The site was started in June
1999 at the height of the internet stock boom as an
unbiased source to learn about investing. The
website has an awesome financial dictionary, which
manages to explain almost any financial term in
plain English. The site is home to over 1,500
articles, 5,300 dictionary entries, and 750 pages of
tutorials on nearly every aspect of finance and
investing.
BusinessWeek is a national
business magazine published by McGraw-Hill. It is known
for publishing annual rankings of United States business
school programs, and it focuses on financial publication
and new coverage. Come see how Bryant stacks up!
Forbes is
another American business magazine published on a
bi-weekly basis. The magazine is well-known for its
lists, including its lists of the richest Americans (the
Forbes 400) and its list of billionaires. It also has
plenty of articles and business news coverage. The motto
of Forbes magazine is "The Capitalist Tool."
Reuters is a
British based news service and former financial market
data provider that provides reports from around the
world to newspapers and broadcasters. Its main focus was
on supplying the financial markets with
information, such as share prices and currency rates,
research and analytics. However, their site is more
geared toward maintaining up-to-date coverage of
financial news.
EquiTrader is
an intercollegiate trading platform on which we'll be
competing this semester. It ranks schools not only based
on their gains but on their volatility. If you want to
check up on how our Investment Group Portfolio is doing,
come check it out.
Dynamic Yield Curve
of interest rates is one of the most
important indicators of the lending in our economy, and
this application is a really cool way to observe it. The
website actually gives you an accurate depiction of the
yield curve on any given date and then strings them all
together into one program. If you hit (Animate) it will
show you how the curve has shifted over time.
PublicMarkup is
an ongoing experiment in preparing legislation more
inclusively by opening bills to online, public review.
During today's economic environment, governmental
intervention has played a tremendous role in shaping our
nation's financial structure. PublicMarkup gives you the
opportunity to review and comment on proposed bills
before they are even introduced—or while they are
pending—in Congress. So if you want to read into the
details of the TARP program, or any proposed bill, here
is the place.
Chartered Financial Analyst
(CFA) is an international professional
designation offered by the CFA Institute to financial
analysts who complete a series of three exams. The CFA
designation is one of the most well recognized titles
you can achieve after graduation, and it
is qualification for finance and investment
professionals, particularly in the fields of investment
management, investment banking and financial analysis of
stocks, bonds and their derivative assets. The program
focuses on portfolio management and financial analysis,
and provides a general knowledge of other areas of
finance. For those who are interested in learning more
check out their websit
