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Corporate and Municipal Bonds
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U.S. Savings Bonds
TreasuryDirect provides basic
information on savings bonds as well as the ability
to purchase bonds online. Their
savings bond wizard helps bond holders price and
inventory their bonds. Also included is a
savings bond calculator which enables the user to
compute the redemption value for a savings bond.
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U.S. Treasury Bonds, Notes and Bills
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T-Bills, Notes and Bonds
TreasuryDirect provides
basic information on Treasury securities as well
as the ability to purchase securities online.
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Treasury Bill, Note and Bond Auction History
Treasury bills, notes
and bonds auctioned since 1980 can be searched
online showing interest and discount rates,
maturity dates and prices.
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Selected Interest Rates
Federal Reserve
Statistical Release H.15 contains daily
interest rates for government securities
and is published weekly.
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ADR.com
Data provided for
each international company includes news,
quotes, buy/hold/sell analysis, largest
investor, brief company description and
a list of companies in the same industry.
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Bank of New York
Depositary receipts
directory includes corporate information,
CUSIP, exchange, industry, news and selected
financials. Searchable by industry, country,
type of deposit receipt and other factors.
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Financial Times
The British financial
news daily, surveys industries and public
companies.
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Investor Words
Investing glossary
on the Web.
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Model Investment Club of Northern Virginia
The Model Investment Club
of Northern Virginia (MicNOVA) is sponsored by
the DC Chapter of BetterInvesting and the Fairfax
County Public Library. The focus is investment
education. There is no charge for attending. MicNOVA
meets on the third Thursday of every month at the
Dolley Madison Library.
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The Motley Fool
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Fool's School
Investing basics
for stocks, mutual funds and bonds. Contains
sections on analyzing stocks and picking
a broker.
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Investment Clubs
Describes the steps
involved in getting an investment club
up and running.
- Mutual Fund Education Alliance
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Mutual Funds 101
Mutual fund investor
education site.
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NASD Investor Information
The National Association
of Secuirites Dealers issues
Investor Alerts to educate investors on how
to protect their money and avoid investment
scams and frauds. Use the
NASD BrokerCheck to investigate the
professional background of securities firms and
their brokers.
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Securities and Exchange Commission
Site provides information
about how to invest and about ways to avoid
fraud.
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Good Starting Points
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Closed-End Funds
The Closed-End
Fund Association Web site provides daily
net asset values, performance histories and fund
information for closed-end funds.
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Morningstar.com
This site provides
information about each fund, including
Morningstar ratings, a manager
profile and performance information.
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Mutual Fund Cost Calculator
The U.S. Securities
and Exchange Commission provides a
calculator at its Web site that allows
investors to estimate and compare the
costs of owning mutual funds.
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SocialFunds.com
Provides social
and ethical information on socially
responsible mutual funds.
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Yahoo! Finance Mutual Funds Center
This site provides
fund details and performance information.
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Money Funds
- Mutual Fund Screeners
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Historical Quotes
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BigCharts
Site contains
historical stock closing prices back
to the mid 1980s. Input a ticker symbol
and a date to look up the price on that
date.
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Silicon Investor
The historical
stock price information includes the
open, high, low, close and volume. Enter
a ticker symbol and select either the
historical tab or choose the historical
option from the pull down menu.
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Yahoo! Finance
Contains historical
stock price information including open,
high, low, close, volume, splits and
dividends.
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Investor Information
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CBS Market Watch
Provides news,
commentary and market data.
"Investor Tools" includes
stock quotes, a calendar of earnings
reports, company profiles, charts, ratings,
etc.
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Daily Stocks
Offers links to many
sites for information about specific companies
including quotes, financials, stock-splits,
advisor recommendations and insider trading
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MSN MoneyCentral Investor
An excellent
site for researching investments. This
site also provides a
research wizard that takes the new
investor through the process of studying
a security and permits comparison with
other stocks.
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Yahoo! Finance
This well-designed
site includes stock quotes, charts,
company news and profiles, recent SEC
filings and insider trading information,
in a user friendly format.
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Market Information
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Specialized Sites
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IPO Central
Sponsored by Hoover's
Online, this site allows searching by company,
industry, state, etc.
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Options Central
The Options Industry
Council's Web site.
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Pink Sheets
Pink Sheets provides
free 15 minute-delayed stock price quotations
for both Pink Sheets stocks and stocks
quoted on the National Association of
Securities Dealers' Over-the-Counter
Bulletin Board. Pink Sheets posts stock
quotations for many small, risky, thinly-traded
stocks.
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Stock Exchanges
- Stock Screeners
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MSN MoneyCentral's Investment Finder
MSN's stock screener allows
you to search a database of stocks by key financial
ratios and industry group.
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Yahoo! Finance
Select potential
stocks for investment using criteria
such as industry group, analyst rating,
one year estimated earnings growth,
one year stock price performance, price/earnings
ratio and other factors.
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