While most news of a financial nature is very short lived, an occasional book, site, or video is worth retaining for future reference. I will try to keep you apprised of these sources and retain a link here so you can return to them in the future.
This site represents the "sky is falling crowd" but is quite interesting.
http://www.financialsense.com/index.html
http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/iem/markets/Nomination08.html
http://play.intrade.com/jsp/intrade/contractSearch/
Bureau of Labor Statistics - The
Department of Labor publishes many usefule studies but two especially
important ones can be accessed in the "Publications and Research
Reports" section, "News Releases" subsection. These two reports are the
monthly producer price indexes and the monthly employment situation
smmary.
Department of Labor
Edgar
Economic Report of the President
Budget of the United States Government
Bureau of Economic Analysis
Census Bureau
Department of Commerce
University of Michigan gopher.
Department of the Treasury
FedStats
Consumer Price Index
White House Economic Statistics Briefing Room (ESBR)
Statistical Sources on the Web
U.S. Treasury's Financial Management Service
Wall Street Research Net - an
excellent site consisting of over 250,000 links to help professional
and private investors perform fundamental research on actively traded
companies and mutual funds and locate important economic data that
moves markets.
Quicken/Networth/Galt - one of the best sites for information on mutual funds.
Aexpert Systems - this unique
site provides an on-line optimizer (Aexpert Optimizer computes
diversified mutual fund investments for investor risk profiles) and a
neural-net S&P 100 index forecaster (MarketVision Forecaster) for
active traders.
Ed Yardeni's Economic Reviews -
this comprehensive site includes an outstanding series of charts and
special reports on macro-economic and demographic trends.
S&P Stock Reports - in the
section "Investor Net" the serious individual investor doing their own
research may subscribe to the "S&P Stock Reports" for an annual
subscription of $275.00 (for up to 60 reports). These individual
company reports are 6-8 pages and are fairly comprehnsive. Many
brokerage firms use this service.
The Motley Fool Online - is designed
to help viewers obtain financial information and discuss investing
techniques. The QInsight Group warns investors to generally ignore the
"information" offered in chat rooms and discussion groups. The
background, skill and motivation of all the parties in these
discussions are unknown and the "information" offered is often
incorrect.
Zacks Investment Research - offers
investors the analysts' consensus earnings forecasts on most traded
stocks. This service is also available from certain of the online
broker services (such as Discover Brokerage Direct, formerly Lombard)
Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED)
- excellent economic data and charts. In addition to a large historical
database of economic and financial data that can be downloaded to your
computer, the St Louis site includes the weekly publication of the
interest rates and money supply figures in the "Publications On-Line"
section in the report entitled "US Financial Data".
Computer Handholders Investment Software
- David N. Nawrocki, Ph.D., one of the founders of the QInsight Group,
has his own website that describes various financial software packages
he has developed and offers for sale. One of these, the Portfolio
Management Software Package, PMSP Professional 486, is a sophisticated
toolkit for portfolio optimization and risk/return rankings.
Dow Jones
Standard & Poors Corporate News
Edgar Online
Public Register's Annual Report Service
American Stock Exchange
New York Stock Exchange
NASDAQ
Morningstar Mutual Funds
SEC
SIC Code Search
Federal Reserve System Beige Book
Financial Data Finder
American Economic Association
Corporate News
Edgar Online
Public Register's Annual Report Service
American Stock Exchange
New York Stock Exchange
NASDAQ
Morningstar Mutual Funds
SEC
SIC Code Search
Federal Reserve System Beige Book
Financial Data Finder
American Economic Association