On the Web:

Mostly Quotes

Big Charts  Stock quotes, News, Industries, Markets, BigReports, and Historical Quotes.  The Historical Quotes is especially useful in allowing the user to look up a security's exact closing price on a particular day.  Some stock prices go back as far as 1970.  An extremely attractive and easy to use site.

CNN Money  Ticker lookup, market news, market data, and much more. Look under "Market and Stocks" for information ranging from commodities and currencies to the Investor Research Center, where you can look up reports for stocks and mutual funds.

Investor Home  Enter a stock or fund symbol for the latest information; includes quick links to the most popular investing sites on the Web.

Quote.com  Delayed and real-time current quotes on stocks, options, commodity futures, mutual funds, and indices, for U.S. and Canadian markets. Quote.com also provides real-time business news, earnings forecasts & reports, market analysis & commentary, balance sheet data, annual reports, intra-day and historical charts, weather information, and company profiles.

Silicon Investor  Not just for high tech stocks, Silicon Investor offers a trading center, market insights, news, and a reference center.  Searching specific stocks is as simple as entering the symbol or company name.  Provides historical information back to 1968.  Good all-in-one choice.

Yahoo! Finance  Enter a stock symbol to get a quote or use their "Research Tools" menu for a stock screener, historical stock quotes, and real time quotes.

Quotes & More

IPO Central   Detailed, current information about initial public offerings. IPO Central helps users get information about US companies that have gone public or filed to go public. This service links the user to a subset of Company Capsules from the Hoover's Online site and to IPO-related filings from EDGAR Online. Find an IPO by searching companies by name, keyword, underwriter, state or metro area or use the IPO Directory, an extensive list of companies that have filed to go public on or after May 6, 1996, with links to the companies' IPO-related SEC filings. Browse by filing date or company name. Beginners should go first to Beginner's Guide for an explanation of IPO information.

Red Herring  Red Herring magazine analyzes trends, strategies, and operations shaping technology-related business and industry--all with a slightly skeptical viewpoint. Sections like "Catch of the Day" offer the reader information on new companies that may (or may not) get hot.

Stock Exchanges

American Stock Exchange

New York Stock Exchange

NASDAQ

Advice & Information

Bloomberg Online  Stock market news and analysis. Much free data or subscribe for additional services.

Business Week and Standard & Poors team up to provide analyses, reports, and indexes. Much information is free, some areas require registration, publications are advertised and offered for sale.

Motley Fool  The nationally known "Fool" provides news and advice on stocks and investing, company news, and how to get a stock broker. Quotes, charts, and data are also available.

Securities & Exchange Commission  The SEC is an independent, nonpartisan, quasi-judicial regulatory agency with responsibility for administering the federal securities laws. Site provides Investor Assistance and Complaints, Edgar database (Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system, performs automated collection, validation, indexing, acceptance, and forwarding of submissions by companies and others who are required by law to file forms with the SEC), Small Business Information, and Other Sites to Visit.

Sedar  SEDAR (System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval) is the system used for electronically filing most securities related information with the Canadian securities regulatory authorities. Includes new filings, database search, company information, and links.

In the Library:

The Web is superior in its ability to present real time quotes on stocks and constantly updated news about the economy, stocks, companies, and the market in general. However, many reference resources have valuable information that help the investor determine trends and track the performance of stocks and markets.

• Dow Jones Averages, 1885-1990
  Provides retrospective statistics on market performance to 1990.
   
• Investor's Business Daily
  Daily newspaper that covers companies, industries, potentially successful stocks, and developments in the economy, as well as providing analysis of national news stories.
   
• Standard & Poor's Dividend Record
  Contains dividend data and is published in quarterly issues.  
   
• Standard & Poor's Statistical Service
  Offers both monthly current statistics and annual statistics.
   
• Standard & Poor's Stock Reports
  Quarterly publication that covers all U.S. exchanges and gives a two page report on each company with a balance sheet, per share data, dividends, etc.
   
• Standard & Poor's Stock Guide
  Lists ticker symbols alphabetically by company name; published monthly.
   
• The Stock Market Encyclopedia (Standard & Poor's)
  Also quarterly and gives shorter reports covering much the same information. Additional information offered by the Stock Market Encyclopedia are selections of stocks with five straight years of rising earnings, stocks that have shown rapid growth, stocks with high rankings, and contrarian selections of stocks with low price/earnings ratios. Another valuable section features Income Selections with companies ranked by yield, stocks with fast–rising dividends, and stocks with higher dividends for ten straight years.
   
• Value Line Investment Survey
  Key source for stock information. This investment advisory service analyzes and reports on companies in over 90 industries, providing statistics, charts, and explanatory text. It contains ranked lists of "timely stocks," best and worst performers, highest and lowest PEs, etc., and offers advice on investment policy, business and financial outlook, and recommended stock purchases. Value Line has an excellent reputation for the accuracy of its recommendations.

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• Business & Company Resource Center
  A large collection of business articles can be found here. Provides indexing for a wide variety of general and specialized business journals as well as coverage of the stock market. Search for articles on stocks, companies, and find up to date stock quotes. You can look up a company by name or ticker symbol.
   
• Infotrac OneFile
  Find newspaper & magazine articles about stocks in this general periodicals database, which includes many business & consumer publications.
   
• Newsbank
  Look for newspaper articles about stocks in America's Newspapers, which provides full text to the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, USA Today, and other regional and national newspapers from roughly 1985-present. Search Noticias en Espanol for stock news in Spanish.
   
• Reference USA
  Locate EDGAR reports (SEC filings & forms) for public companies by clicking on the ticker symbol, which is located in the company's record.

In the databases above excluding Reference USA, search under "Stock Exchange," or specific markets like NASDAQ; or use specific terms like "bear market," "floor traders," "over-the-counter markets," or "margins."

Go to the Library's databases