ASTROPRO NETSELECT DIRECTORY: ECONOMICS

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Banking

Central Banks

Germany

Deutsche Bundesbank

International Monetary Fund

GLOBAL MONEY, THE GOOD LIFE AND YOU

An online reference on international finance and development, aimed at conveying "a basic understanding of the operations of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank."

IMF International Capital Markets 1997--Contents

IMF World Economic Outlook Oct. 1997--Contents

US Federal Reserve

Federal Open Market Committee

The prime monetary policy body of the Federal Reserve System: check here for current membership and meeting schedule.

Federal Reserve Home Page

FRED database-- Federal Reserve Economic Data

World Bank

World Bank Group

Internet Payment Services

CyberCash Home Page

DigiCash home page

First Virtual Home Page

Say what you like, it's a bank: it takes your money, holds it, disburses it.

Reference

Bank Rate Monitor

BanxQuote(r) Banking Network

A clearing-house of information on bank rates . . .

FDIC: Internet Banking Activity

The official FDIC site for consumer info on internet banks: the place to go to check out one of these banks, report problems with them, etc.

RateNet

A ranking service for the banking industry, tracks current and historic interest rates of over 11,000 financial institutions from 175US markets.

Retail Banks

UK

British Bankers Association - Home Page

US

Bank of America

Citicorp/Citibank Home Page

NORWEST Corporation's WEB Home Page

Wells Fargo's WWW Home Page

Switzerland

Swiss Banks Dormant Accounts Listing

Union Bank of Switzerland

Bonds

Investing In Bonds

Guide to bonds, a service of the Bond Market Association

Businesses

Corporations

Websites, Directories of

CompaniesOnline Search

Fortune 500 Companies' Homepages

Web Central - Major Corporations on the Web

Entrepreneurship

Business@Home

Info for the home-based business...

The Small Business Knowledge Base

A little bit of everything - okay, a lot of everything - for anyone in or contemplating getting into a small business

Small Business Taxes & Management

A tax and management guide for small and medium sized businesses, provided by THE SMALL BUSINESS TAX REVIEW

Brokers

E*TRADE

Fidelity Investments Home Page

Lombard Home Page

Merrill Lynch

J P Morgan

A resource-rich site, a gold mine of bookmarks well worth exploring in depth . . .

Consumer Resources

Active Buyer's Guide

An online expert system designed to help you find the best of the things you want to buy

AuctionWatch

An annotated, selective & searchable directory of over 300 online auction sites

Bag Lady's Cart Full of Abe Pinching Links

Chock full of resources on the art of living frugally

Buyer's Index

Search over 5,000 North American mail order catalogs and WWW shopping sites through this site.

Catalog Site

An online catalog of catalogs, as it were: check here for links to hundreds of 'em, covering all kinds of consumer goods & interests.

CompareNet - The Interactive Buyers Guide!

Consumer Information Center Main Page

Free consumer info from the US government

Consumer Protection LawFirms

Find a lawyer or law firm specializing in consumer protection laws

Consumer World: Read Review and Rate Site

Looking for deals? Check here for info on over 900 goodies.

Consumer's Resource Handbook

Free consumer info from the US government

Consumers Digest Online

All kinds of best buys here

eSmarts

Consumer reports guide to bargain shopping. Find discount and bargain prices and reports on merchants.

Excite Shopping Search

Think of it as a Net shopper: tell it what you want, let it find the goodies for you.

Federal Trade Commission Consumer Protection

The FTC's official website

Fight Back! with David Horowitz

Complete with online complaint forms, no less.

Internet Cigar Group

An online treasure trove of information for cigar lovers

National Fraud Information Center - Daily Reports

The latest scams, schemes and cons

Neiman Marcus

Product ReviewNet

Free consumer intelligence, abstracting hundreds of product reviews in a wide range of categories. Check here before you buy!

Sotheby's

No blue light specials here, just the premium stuff

Spiegel Directions

Val-Pak Coupons

If they didn't land in your mailbox, you can download 'em here!

weekly freebie

A weekly compilation of free stuff you can have for the asking . . . lots of consumer goodies here.

Credit

Bankruptcy

American Bankruptcy Institute - ABI World

Everything you ever wanted to know about bankruptcy.

Credit Bureaus

Equifax

Trans Union

Credit Cards

MasterCard International Pointers

Credit Ratings/Reports

Better Credit... FOR FREE!

Legal Network's Better Credit Web Page offers help for individuals seeking to improve their credit profile.

Moody's Investors Service

Currencies

Accu-Rate Foreign Exchange (Canadian)

Get today's exchange rates for the Canadian dollar in the currency of your choice.

Cheat Sheet for Travelers

Get your wallet-sized table of currency exchange rates for travellers here!

EURO

Euro Currency Information

Financial Forecast Center

Includes current as well as historic (back to 1971) currency exchange rates, plus much more

Exchanges

American Stock Exchange

Boston Stock Exchange

Chicago Board Of Trade

Nasdaq Home Page

New York Stock Exchange Home Page

US Securities and Exchange Commission

Financial Planning

FinPlandotCom

A personal finance and financial planning resource

Insurance

Insurance News Network - Your Guide to Auto, Home and Life Insurance

Price quotes of course - industry news as well, and feature articles for consumers too.

InsWeb - Insurance On-Line

Get quotes on various kinds of insurance, etc.

IRA - Individual Retirement Account

Roth IRA Web Site Home Page

A collection of links to articles on the Web explaining the nuances of the Roth IRA

Markets, Financial Data

Commodities

Metals, Precious

Kitco Inc. - Gold & Precious Metal Price Updates

Near real-time price quotes . . .

Reference

USA Gold Reference Library - Daily London Gold PM Prices 1973 to date

Monthly data 1970-1973

Mutual Funds

FundAlarm-Home Page (Updated 1st of Each Month)

Offers info on whether to sell particular mutual funds and why

Morningstar.Net

A wealth of information about stocks and mutual funds

Mutual Fund Cost Calculator

Run it online (requires JavaScript) or download the Macromedia Authorware version and run it anytime to estimate & compare the costs of owning mutual funds - free in either case, courtesy of the SEC (Securities & Exchange Commission).

Mutual Funds Central

An excellent free reference resource - RECOMMENDED

Ultimate Guide to MUTUAL FUNDS

Money magazine's guide to mutual funds

News

Briefing.Com

Market quotes, comments and charts, sector ratings, economic calendar and more

CNBC Ticker Guide

CNNfn - the financial network

Internet Daily Stock Report

focused coverage of internet stocks

Marketplace Radio Business News

The National Public Radio program's website

Standard & Poor - Today's Headlines

News on the markets, plus much more . . .

Stocks @ Close

Get daily closing figures on markets and stocks at this website - they'll also email it to you if you prefer.

Wall $treek Week with Louis Ruckeyser

Official website for the PBS show

Yahoo! - U.S. Stock News and Report Company News

Quick-loading (all text) - RECOMMENDED

Reference

General

American Association of Individual Investors

AAII provides educational material to help individuals become better managers of their money.

BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC. - INDEX

BullandBearWise.com

News and indices to keep your finger on the market pulse

CheckFree Investment Services Quote Server

Economeister Home Page

EDGAR - brought to you by WhoWhere?

EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering Analysis And Retrieval) is a service of the United States Securities Exchange Commission (SEC). WhoWhere? puts it at your fingertips: inside information about companies: financial sheets contain dollar amounts such as; net income, gross profit, debt, acquisitions, etc. Special feature: track just the companies you want!

Financial Data Finder

Ohio Sate University's Finance Department's master list of links to financial data on the WWW and elsewhere.

FinancialWeb

A free, comprehensive and excellent reference source

FINWeb Home Page

Links to Internet resources providing substantive information concerning economics and finance-related topics

Forbes Four Hundred

Forbes' magazine annual list of the 400 wealthiest people in the US

Gerlach, Douglas - invest-o-rama!

An excellent directory and research site for investors

Individual Investor Interactive

Investor Links, Financial Links for Investors

This could be one of the biggest collections of investment-related links anywhere on the Web.

InvestorWords - Investing Glossary

Think of this as an online glossary of investment vocabulary.

Krugman, Paul - The Official Web Page

Economics professor - Ford International Professor of Economics at MIT - lays it online.

MarketCentral

An investment supersite, with links to just about everything financial

NewsPage CompanyLink

Business/market headlines plus profiles of some 65,000 companies with recent news artices, SEC filings, news releases and stock quotes

Rapid Research: Stock Screening and Fundamental Research

Enter a company's stock symbol (with lookup if you don't know it), get a detailed report on the company.

Quicken Financial Network

Info on stocks, mutual funds, banking and more - a diverse grab-bag of free goodies.

Stockpoint

Supply-Side University

An online course on "supply-side political economics -- because supply-side economics really doesn't make sense without reference to its political overlay."

Telescan's Wall Street City

timely.com - WWW Investment Resource

Market data and news, updated daily, covering more than 17,000 US securities

Yardeni, Dr. Ed - Economics Network

A valuable reference resource

History

87 Crash, charts and stories of the 1987 Stock Market Crash

Armstrong, Martin - Great Financial Panics in History

A valuable reference resource, don't miss it.

InvestorGuide Historical Data

Marathe, Achla & Renshaw, Edward - Stock Market Bubbles

Historical analysis of stock markets

Mississippi Scheme

Excerpt from Charles MacKay's EXTRAORDINARY DELUSIONS & THE MADNESS OF CROWDS

South Sea Bubble - The Bubble Project (BP)

A history of the 1720 English stock market crash

Tulipomania - OF FLOWERS AND FRENZY

Search Engines, Market Data-Specific

StockWiz - FREE stock selection software and data for investors

Enter a ticker symbol, press 'Submit' and get voluminous info on that company.

Stocks

Alert-IPO!

A free online directory of companies about to go public. The directory is a compilation of weekly summary reports of IPOs for the public to access . . .

Decision Point Market Timing & Charts

Check here for charts on indices and individual stocks, some going back to the 1920s.

Dogs of the Dow

Market news & investment tips

Investment - InfoManage

Features too numerous to mention make this a comprehensive resource. Try the stock search feature for snapshots of thousands of publicly traded companies.

Investor's Business Journal - Small/Microcap Stocks

Info on microcaps stocks, small cap stocks, penny stocks, ipos, growth stocks, & top pick stock investments

IPO Central

Check here for recent IPO filings, pricings, news and analysis.

OptionSource.Com Home Page

Schaeffer's Investment Research operates this website to help educate investors about options trading.

Silicon Investor

They claim to be "the world's largest financial discussion site", and there's plenty of news & views to be had here.

Stockfever.com -- Equities -- Stock Quotes, Earnings Estimates, Fundamentals, Charts

TechInvestor

News and views for investors in the hi-tech sector

Mortgages, Commercial

Commercial Mortgage Yes

Get their newsletter, apply for a mortgage, etc.

Mortgages, Residential

See Astropro's NetSelect Directory Shelter section.

Numismatics

NNC Home Page

The Smithsonian's coin and currency collection

NOVA Online: Secrets of Making Money

The PBS lowdown on US currency

Publications

Band, Richard E. - Profitable Investing Newsletter

The members get the good stuff.

Business Week

Cents Financial Journal

Pretty much a one-stop financial news resource

Forbes ASAP

An online business news feature

Forbes Digital Tool

Meadors, Greg - Market Systems Newsletter

Gann angles and more

Money Magazine Online

Motley Fool

You've GOT to check this one out!!

Prague Tribune

Monthly coverage of business in the Czech Republic

Reference - see also Markets, Financial Data

Current

Asia Crisis Homepage

A collection of articles relating to the Asian economic and currency crisis, compiled by NYU Associate Professor of Economics and International Business Nouriel Roubini.

CIA Handbook of International Economic Statistics, 1996

Economic Calendar: The Dismal Scientist

A calendar of current economic events - data releases, reports, etc.

Growth Pole Cycles

The foundations and implications of a theory of socio-economic cyles, intended to help decision-makers anticipate the changing socio-economic climate.

US Bureau of Economic Analysis

Official data on key national, international, and regional aspects of the U.S. economy.

US GDP table (ESBR)

The latest official US GDP figures (Gross Domestic Product), from the US Bureau of Economic Analysis

Y2K BOOK

Economist Edward Yardeni presents a case for the year 2000 (Y2K) bug setting off a worldwide recession.

General

AmosWorld Glossary Search

A searchable glossary of economic terms

History

History of Money from Ancient Times to the Present Day

REITs - Real Estate Investment Trusts

National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts

Search Engines, Economics-Specific

FinanceWise

Software

INCwave Stock Software

Software for NASDAQ/NYSE online investing tells you when and how many shares of stock to buy and sell, based on your input as to companies and investment goals.

Taxes

1040.com - Tax Information for Everyone

American Express Small Business Exchange

See this site for lots of tax tips.

H&R Block

JackTax

If you don't know jack about taxes and the taxman is breathing down your neck, CPA Jack Heaney specializes in solving tax nightmares.

SecureTax: Tax Preparation Software

Info on software, blank forms available too

Tax Forms Home Page

Need tax forms? Check the links here!

TaxLibrary.com: The Internet Tax Research Solution

Online library for tax professionals!

Yahoo! TurboTax Tax Center

Got a taxing situation on your hands? Tons of tips and other useful info here.

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