Investing & Personal Finance

Items on this subject may be found in the following areas: 332-332.029 & 332.6-332.76

BPL Resources
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Bonds
Finance Personal
Investment Analysis
Investments
Mutual Funds
Stocks

Internet Resources
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Bank Rate Monitor Bank Rate Monitor is a neatly arranged web site offering comparative rates on mortgages, online banking, credit unions, credit cards, IRA's, ATM charges, and home equity rates among other items. The site includes calculators that allow visitors to compute how long it will take to pay off a credit card debt, how much house one can afford, the cost of sending a child to college, how much an auto lease will really cost, etc.... A super web-site.
http://www.bankrate.com

Big Charts Big Charts provides historical stock quotes dating back to 1971. This site gives closing price, per share split adjusted price and adjustment factor. Visitors may also view charts for specific equities. 
http://bigcharts.com

Bloomberg An excellent personal finance site.  Extended coverage of U.S. and world financial markets is available, along with useful tools such as mortgage and currency calculators.
http://www.bloomberg.com/

CNN/Money Today's business news today along with detailed coverage of individual markets from a trusted name in investing and personal finance.
http://money.cnn.com/

Disclosure/Global Access Subscription service available only in the Business, Science & Technology Department, located on the Third Floor of the Central Library. Annual reports and filings are available on companies throughout the U.S., Canada, and abroad. BST staff are available to provide instruction.

FinanceCenter More than 100 calculators on topics ranging from retirement to the cost of raising a child.
 http://www.financenter.com/products/calculators/

InvestorGuide InvestorGuide offers the fastest links on the Web for researching stocks and bonds. The site offers a plethora of information on a myriad of topics ranging from investment clubs to bonds and futures.
http://investorguide.com

Kiplinger Online Kiplinger's provides advice on everything from online investing, retirement, insurance to tax information. A super site from one of the patriarchs of personal finance.
http://kiplinger.com

MAXfunds MAXfunds helps users pick the best funds by providing them with information to make better investing decisions. 
http://maxfunds.com

Morningstar Selecting a stock or mutual fund just got easier with Morningstar.com Library Edition. Now you can research stocks and mutual funds, identify those stocks or funds meeting certain criteria, and see how they work together in a portfolio. Remote access is available with a valid BPL issued library card.

MotleyFool The Motley Fool offers entertaining advice, irreverent opinions and a lively discussion forum. An extremely valuable site for beginning investors. Online tutorials are available. Some services require a registration, which is free. 
http://www.fool.com

NASDAQ The NASDAQ stock market home page. The site will process information requests for up to ten issues at one time.
http://nasdaq.com

Mutual Fund Education Alliance Operated by the Mutual Fund Education Alliance, a non-profit trade association of the no load mutual fund industry, this site provides the largest collection of mutual fund information available via the Internet. 
http://www.mfea.com/

NYSE The New York Stock Exchange's website offers, company news, SEC filings, and additional company information. A quality history of the exchange is also provided.
http://nyse.com

Retirement Planning Retirement Planning offers a calculator for determining projected retirement income. An invaluable web resource tool.
http://www.rowling.com/retirepl.html

Smart Money From the producers of SmartMoney Magazine and the Wall Street Journal this site is one of the best investment and personal finance site available. Scores of interactive tools are available to help investors make wise decisions in their investment strategies.
http://smartmoney.com

Standard & Poor's Net Advantage Subscription service available only in the Business, Science & Technology Department, located on the Third Floor of the Central Library. Net Advantage provides searchable access to all Standard & Poor's paper products and is a web-based service. BST staff are available to provide instruction.

Street.com The Street.com provides investors with a wealth of current financial and investing information.
http://www.thestreet.com/

Universal Currency Converter The Universal Currency Converter allows visitors to perform interactive foreign exchange rate calculations using live currency rates.  The site defaults to one dollar, but visitors are presented the option of converting any amount of currency. 
http://www.xe.com/ucc/

World Paper Money Homepage The official image gallery site of the International Bank Note Society.  The "Banknotes" link takes visitors to scanned images from over 7,000 notes from countries all over the world. Individual front and back pictures are available.  The site also has links to various war currencies, including Allied occupation money, as well as pictures of Colonial America and Confederate currencies. 
http://aes.iupui.edu/rwise/

Yahoo! Finance Historical stock quotes from Yahoo!.
http://chart.yahoo.com/d