Investing and Finance: Stocks and Market Data

Wired News: Stocks 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 a personal portfolio. The Portfolios section allows you to keep a running log of each stock purchase. DBC Online: Market Updates Look up stocks, mutual funds, money market funds, and indexes on four continents with Data Broadcasting Corporation's Fast Quote server. Delayed by 15 minutes. The site also contains market summaries, leaders, gainers/losers, industry groupings, and international stocks by country (ADRs). Free charts and portfolios are available from the option bar. Enter up to 10 symbols, separated by a space (example, sna, cys, ibm): Infobeat Finance Get updated stock prices as soon as the closing bell sounds. Fill in as many stocks or mutual funds as you'd like to follow every day, and Infobeat's service will send them to your email box - along with a few advertisements and news - for free. It's easy and works well. You can also receive the data as a spreadsheet file. PC Quote Gives 20-minute delayed quotes. PC Quote also sells specialized real-time quote feeds and software. Enter ticker symbol: Enter company name to find symbol: Accutrade Trade equities, options, mutual funds, and bonds through this well-designed site. Commissions on equities are higher than other electronic traders at US$28 plus seven cents per share. CompuTEL Securities Real-time trading and quotes to experienced investors. Trade up to 5,000 shares of most stocks for a $19.75 flat fee. Also news, quotes, charts, and financial links. e.Schwab Schwab has two separate deals - one for its standard customers, one for Web-only customers who've set up an e.Schwab account. Web trades have a $29.95 commission for up to 1,000 shares. E*TRADE Trade online! Only $14.95 for market orders of listed securities. Very cool, fully automated stock and option trading system. Lombard Institutional Brokerage Inc. San Francisco-based real-time trading and research information center. Motley Fool The original site empowering the small stock investor, and one of the most popular forums on AOL. The Motley Fool's interface on the Web lets you follow their picks and play The Pitch, which tests your numbers sense and tracks your score. Beware: the Fool claims to be having technical difficulties with its ISP. Who could that be? National Discount Brokers Trade any Nasdaq stock, any amount, for just $14.75. PATH On-line Manage your entire investment portfolio from your PC. Place trades, view positions, determine purchasing power, receive confirmations, and consolidate all your investments into a single account.

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