Investing and Finance: Company Research

Wired News: Stock Portfolios The Wired News Stocks section provides up-to-date financial market information, including most active stocks, biggest gainers, biggest losers, nine stock indexes ranked by point change and percent change, graphing capability for selected stocks, and "personal portfolio." The Portfolios section allows you to keep a running log of each stock purchase. Bloomberg Personal The Rosetta stone of the investment world, Bloomberg has served deep-pocket institutional investors and houses that use their proprietary terminals. While real-time figures and extensive data are still only available from the terminals, the Web interface shows Bloomberg really knows how to adapt to the medium. Bloomberg's search of US companies brings a lot of data together from all over the Web - including stock prices and detailed maps with company locations. Dogs of the Dow Looking for an easy way to be a player on the Dow? The Dog Steps section of Dogs of the Dow shows how to choose and follow a limited number of solid investments through the free site. Usually "dogs" are losers of the business world, but I guess these are real bulldogs, since they've outperformed the Dow average by more than 5 percent since 1973. Fortune 500 Database Corporate profiles of Fortune 500 companies by the magazine that first put together the eponymous list. Search by a company or keyword: Search Fortune's Global 500: IFCI Financial Yellow Pages Good index for online research, from Switzerland. Most importantly, the International Finance & Commodities Institute offers brief descriptions of sites under the rubrics Bank, Brokerage, Financial Services, and more. Lombard Institutional Brokerage Inc. San Francisco-based real-time trading and research information center. Max's Investment World Max is short for Maxine, a three-legged cat that inspired the site. Max's Investment World is not affiliated with any broker or registered with the SEC, and its creators don't claim to be investment experts. We wouldn't invest based solely on Max's advice, but the site does offer an independent and alternative source for investment information. Take a gamble and investigate Max's model Mutual Funds portfolio and list of rip-off stocks. Moneysearch These directories may help you find a broker or bank. The Award Winners section offers good commentary on financial sites. Plus, each time you reload the homepage, a new joke or quote appears at the bottom. PR Newswire While this press-release fountainhead may not be a significant source of hard news, you can glean useful financial data here. For example, look up a company's earnings as soon as they're posted. Search for a company name or keyword below for the past 72 hours, or go to the site to search by industry. Select the connector between keywords you want to search: Phrase And Or StreetEYE Financial-market index and search engine with more than 1,500 Net resources for financial professionals and investors.

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