News/General

Bloomberg. General news and in-depth financial market, company and industry information.

Business Week

CNNfn. General and market-related news.

Financial Times. Domestic and international financial news.

Hoover's Online. Company and industry information. A more complete version of Hoover's is available through Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe.

Investopedia. Definitions of financial market terms.

The Standard. News focusing on "the Internet economy."

Museum of American Finance

Yahoo Finance. Free company, industry, stock and personal finance information.

Google Finance.  Get real-time stock quotes & charts, financial news, currency conversions, or track your portfolio.

Markets

Big Charts. Historical stock prices.

New York Stock Exchange

NASDAQ

CME Group. Comprised of five desginated contract markets: CME (Chicago merchantile Exchange), CBOT (Chicago Board of Trade), NYMEX (New York Merchantile Exchange), COMEX (Commodity Exchange), KCBT (Kansas City Board of Trade).

Bonds Online. Credit markets news and information, covering a wide variety of fixed-income securities topics.

Dow Jones Indexes

Mutual Funds

Morningstar. Mutual fund facts and commentary.

ICI Mutual Fund Connection. Published by the Investment Company Institute. Comprehensive source of mutual fund information.

Financial Market Regulatory Agencies

Securities and Exchange Commission

Federal Reserve Board of Governors

Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). Securities industry self-regulatory organization. In 2007, the National Association of Securities Dealers merged with the New York Stock Exchange's regulation committee to form FINRA.

Commodity Futures Trading Commission : Federal regulatory agency for futures markets.

Banks and Banking (U.S.)

American Bankers' Association. Association for all types of banking institutions.

Bankrate.com. Information about rates for various loan and deposit products.

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Primary mission is to charter, regulate, and supervise all national banks and federal savings associations.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. In addition to insuring deposits, this agency is charged with promoting "sound banking practices."

Cassidi. St. Louis Federal Reserve.  Competitive analysis and structure source instrument for depository institutions.

Best's Insurance Reports. Life/Health. U.S & Canada.  Holland and Terrell Reference CD-ROM Workstation.  Also available in print; Holland and Terrell Reference HG8941 B482.  Provides in-depth reports on thousands of health/life insurers, reinsurers, and groups, plus information on retired companies.

Best's Insurance Reports.  Property/Casualty. U.S. & Canada. Holland and Terrell Reference CD-ROM Workstation.  Also available in print; Holland and Terrell Reference HG9655 B5.  Provides in-depth reports on thousands of property/casualty insurers, reinsurers, and groups, plus information on retired companies.

Business Source Complete. A definitive scholarly business database, providing an extensive collection of bibliographic and full text content. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts are provided for the most important scholarly business journals back to the early 20th Century.

EconLit. Provides citations and abstracts to journal articles, working papers, and books dealing with financial markets and risk, banks, investment decisions, housing and real estate, insurance, government regulations and much more.

eStatement Studies.  RMA.  Covers approximately 350 U.S. industries.  Nineteen of the most widely used ratios in the financial services industry accompany the balance sheet  and income statement information, including various types of liquidity, coverage, leverage, and operating ratios.  Gives both current and historical data, arranged by NAICS code.

IBISWorld.  Industry research reports for over 700 U.S. industries, at the 5-digit NAICS.

Lexis Nexis Academic.  Provides company information and full-text articles from thousands of news, business, and trade publications.

The Value Line Investment Survey.  Holland and Terrell Reference HG4501 V26        Regularly updated resource that evaluates approximately 1,700 of the most actively traded U.S. exchange-listed stocks, drawn from over 90 industry sectors and representing about 95% of total U.S. stock market capitalization.

How the Stock Market Works.  Holland and Terrell Reference HG4551 D29 2001

How the Bond Market Works.  Holland and Terrell Reference HG4651 H68 1997 

Dictionary of Insurance Terms - Harvey W. Rubin

Call Number: Holland and Terrell Reference HG8025 .R83 2000

ISBN: 0764112627

Publication Date: 2000

Defines more than 4,200 insurance terms that should be understood by agents, brokers, actuaries, underwriters, personnel professionals dealing with employee-benefit programs, and consumers who need to understand the insurance policies they plan to buy. Terminology covers life, health, property, and casualty insurance, as well as retirement plans.

Prentice Hall Dictionary of Real Estate - Barbara Cox; Jerry V. Cox; David Silver-Westrick

Call Number: Holland and Terrell Reference HD1365 .C69 2001

ISBN: 0130208353

Publication Date: 2000

The Dictionary of Real Estate Appraisal - Appraisal Institute Staff (Contribution by)

Call Number: Holland and Terrell Reference HD1387 .D435 2002

ISBN: 0922154724

Publication Date: 2002

Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms - John Downes; Jordan Elliot Goodman

Call Number: Holland and Terrell Reference HG151 .D69 2006

ISBN: 0764134167

Publication Date: 2006

More than 5,000 terms related to stocks, bonds, mutual funds, banking, tax laws, and transactions in the various financial markets are presented alphabetically with descriptions. Readers will also find a helpful list of financial abbreviations and acronyms, as well as illustrative diagrams and charts.

Dictionary of Banking Terms - Thomas P. Fitch

Call Number: Holland and Terrell HG151 .F57 2006

ISBN: 0764132636

Publication Date: 2006

More than 3,000 terms are defined in this newly updated edition as they relate to banking, banking practices, laws, and regulations.

Capital Markets Handbook - John C. Burch; Bruce S. Foerster

Call Number: Holland and Terrell Reference KF1070 .C37 2003

ISBN: 0735530610

Publication Date: 2002

Covers the latest developments in securities legislation, and all aspects of documentation, underwriting, pricing, distribution, settlement, immediate aftermarket trading of new issues, information, a glossary, a bibliography, and appendices containing the full text of the primary statutes and regulations. New To The 4th Edition: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, which in part amends the '33 and '34 Acts. NASD Rule 2711 and NYSE Rule 472, limiting communications between analysts and investment bankers about new issue transactions.

The Appraisal of Real Estate - Appraisal Institute (U.S.) Staff (Contribution by)

Call Number: Holland and Terrell Reference HD1387 .A663 2008

ISBN: 9780922154982

Publication Date: 2008

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