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Education, General Reference

Yahoo! Finance has a huge collection of information, mostly gathered from other sources.

The New York Times is available online, for free. (And you won't get ink all over your pants.)

Google News is amazing and wonderful, like all things Google.

If our own glossary doesn't have what you need, try the user-friendly dictionary at Investopedia.com, or Campbell R. Harvey's incredibly comprehensive Hypertextual Finance Glossary.

The Investment FAQ offers well-written articles on many topics.

Wachowicz's Web World is a huge list of finance links.

You can find lots of basic educational material and helpful links at two nonprofit sites, The American Association of Individual Investors and The Alliance for Investor Education.

 

Magazine-style Sites

The Economist - International business and economics.

Forbes - Personal finance and investing, and commentary on business, economics and politics.

HBS Working Knowledge - High-powered articles from Harvard Business School.

Kiplinger - Personal finance articles.

Smartmoney - Articles and lots of very clever interactive gadgets.

 

Government Agencies

Securities and Exchange Commission   The SEC is committed to making the market reliable and protecting investors from abuses. Their site has a lot of educational material.

The IRS   This site is so cute you might think you've gone to the wrong place; but it's them all right. (Maybe they're trying to dispel that knock- on- the- door- at- midnight image; or maybe they're just messing with your head -- who knows?) Online tax forms, and financial advice.

Also See...
More "links" pages for:

  Economics
  Financial Statements
  Index Funds
  Portfolio Theory
  Roth IRA
  Stock Valuation
  Volatility

 

 



 

Sites to Research Specific Companies and Stocks

Marketguide offers one of the best and most convenient summaries anywhere, with all the important fundamentals on one page. This is the first place to go to research a stock.

After you look at a summary screen like Marketguide's you'll want to visit EDGAR, the SEC's Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system. EDGAR offers annual and quarterly reports (known as 10-Ks and 10-Qs) and other important filings. Other, more user-friendly EDGARs are also available. You have to pay to use some of them, but a good free one is called (what else) FreeEDGAR.

Among its other resources, The Motley Fool offers closely monitored message boards - meaning that they aren't infested with scam artists running "pump and dump" schemes.

News sources are available all over the place. Quicken is a good representative.