WEB SITES FOR
FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Financial Web pages: URL
Dr.
Kiss home page http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/finance/elinda-kiss
Dr. Kiss notes on Blackboard http://bb.rhsmith.umd.edu
Dr. Kiss Rutgers home page http://www.elinda-kiss.rutgers.edu
Wall Street Journal interactive edition http://interactive.wsj.com/pages/money.htm
Bloomberg Financial Services http://www.bloomberg.com/welcome.html
CNN Financial News http://www.cnnfn.com/
Definition
of "fair value" http://www.cnnfn.com/2000/04/17/investing/fairvalue/
Yahoo
Financial Ratios, and historical data for stocks & indexes http://finance.yahoo.com
New
York Times http://www.nytimes.com
New York Stock Exchange http://www.nyse.com/
NSADAQ/AMEX http://www.nasdaq.com/
Chicago Board of Trade http://www.cbot.com/
Chicago Mercantile Exchange http://www.cme.com/
Philadelphia Stock Exchange http://www.phlx.com/
Janney Montgomery Scott invest. bank http://www.jmsonline.com/
Wachovia Bank http://www.wachovia.com/
Citibank http://www.citigroup.com
The Vanguard Group-mutual funds http://www.vanguard.com/
Fidelity Investments - mutual funds http://www161.fidelity.com/
Federal Reserve Bank of
NY-statistical info. http://www.ny.frb.org/pihome/statistics/
Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) http://www.stls.frb.org/fred/
Federal Reserve Board http://www.federalreserve.gov/
FOMC info at http://www.federalreserve.gov/fomc/
Bureau of the Census http://www.census.gov/
Bureau of Labor Statistics http://www.bls.gov
International Monetary Fund http://www.imf.org/
Wall Street Research Network http://www.wsrn.com/
Bankruptcy library http://bankrupt.com/
Ohio State University Financial Data finder http://www.cob.ohio-state.edu/dept/fin/osudata.htm
Economics calendar http://biz.yahoo.com/calendar
Economic
Research site http://www.dismal.com/
Stock market valuation calculator http://www.dismal.com/cgi/stocks.asp
Economics
calendar http://biz.yahoo.com/calendar
Analysis
of recently released economic data WWW.bridge.com
PCBE (Philadelphia Council Business Economics) http://www.nabe.com/chapters/phlhome.htm
NABE (Natl. Assoc. Business Economics) http://www.nabe.com
Data Broadcast Company http://www.esignal.com
SEC & Edgar http://www.sec.gov/index.html
Company
ratios and financial reports http://www.freedgar.com
FASB http://www.fasb.org
CFA exam information http://www.aimr.org
http://www.excite.com/xdr/business/companies/index.html
http://www.worldnet.att.net/explore/business/index.html
http://www.quicken.com/investments
Financial Information
library http://www.mbnet.mb.ca:80/~russell/
http://www.streetlink.com http://www.experian.com/index.html
Morningstar's
approach to stock analysis: http://news.morningstar.com/iandwin/Msapproach.pdf
Wall Street Journal student subscription point your
browser to: http://info.wsj.com/student at the User Name prompt, enter your
12-digit account number without any spaces (e.g., 010296201704) from then on, go
to http://wsj.com
or to http://interactive.wsj.com/pages/money.htm
www.moodys.com www.standardandpoors.com
http://stats.bis.gov/cpihome.htm www.americanbanker.com
www.aba.com/aba/ www.mybank.com
www.occ.treas.gov/ www.americanbanker.com/
www.ins.state.ny.us/ www.ambest.com/
www.vanguard.com/ www.300.fidelity.com/ www.pionline.com
www.pbgc.gov/ www.investors.com/
http://www.stocktrader.com/yc2.html http://www.greatwesternbank.com/
http://www.fdic.gov/bank/analytical/index.html http://www.sfnb.com/
http://www.suntrust.com/pers/about/ http://www2.fdic.gov/qbp
http://www.gmacfs.com/ http://www.bloomberg.com/welcome.html
http://www.ml.com/ http://www.corningcu.org/ http://www.bog.frb.fed.us/releases/CP/default.htm
http://www.bondsonline.com/corpindex.html
http://www.bondsonline.com/bondquoteindex.html
http://www.interestratesonline.com/cgi-bin/www/index.pl
http://quotes.ino.com/analysis/extremes/futures/ http://www.cboe.com/tools/optcalcu.htm
www.troweprice.com/ go
to investment tools and click on college investment or retirement to calculate
how portfolios would behave in each of 500 scenarios using
Go to www.fdic.gov
Click on FDIC Statistics;
Click on Statistics in Banking and then on Savings Institutions
That
leads to savings institution data; Click on most recent issue
http://www.fdic.gov/bank/statistical/statistics/sectione.html
http://www.fdic.gov/bank/statistical/statistics/0109/sirc11.html
http://www.mybank.com/ This comprehensive listing
will help you locate banks on the World Wide Web.
http://www.occ.treas.gov/ Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
http://www.ots.treas.gov/ The Office of Thrift
Supervision, a bureau of the U.S. Treasury
http://www.americanbanker.com The publication of the
banker’s trade association.
http://www.ft.com/ Financial Times;
FT won two Espy awards for best new site and best non
http://www.ffiec.gov/ Federal Financial
Institutions Examination Council will shortly provide peer group average data
for banks. The website also includes
forms needed to fill out call reports and contains the Uniform Bank Performance
Report.
http://www.bankone.com/ Bank One
Corp.’s website.
http://www.ginniemae.gov/ The Government National Mortgage
Association
http://www.fanniemae.com/ The Federal National Mortgage
Association
http://www.freddiemac.com/ The Federal Home Loan Mortgage
Corporation
An excellent VAR website can be found at www.contingencyanalysis.com.
http://www.kmv.com/ The
website of KMV corporation, the developer of the KMV option based credit
scoring model.
http://www.investors.com/ Investor’s Daily is a website
that provides investors with current information; it is a companion site to the
Investor’s Business Daily publication.
http://www.naic.org/ The website of the
National Association of Insurance Commissioners
http://www.rutgers.edu/Accounting/raw/fasb/ FASB webpage
http://www.cbot.com/
http://www.cboe.com/
http://www.cme.com/ Chicago Mercantile
Exchange (futures trading) website
http://www.liffe.com/ London
International Financial Futures Exchange website.
http://www.bis.org/ Bank
of International Settlements website.
The BIS collects data about derivatives usage and promulgates risk based
capital requirements including requirements for derivatives usage.
http://www.isda.org/ International Swaps
and Derivatives Association is a global trade association for the derivatives industry.
http://www.economist.com/ The
Economist, an excellent current event magazine covering international business,
politics, finance and economics. Excellent source of context about countries and regions of the
world.
www.psa.com/publications/igabs/prepayment.htm for various prepayment models on different loan types.
http://www.ambest.com A.M. Best is a leading
source of information on the insurance industry. Industry and firm specific data are provided.
http://www.nuco.com/ The National Underwriter
Company publishes a “broad array of print, e-media and software products for
the insurance and financial services industries.”
http://www.sia.com/ The
Securities Industry Association website.
Industry information, the SIA Fact book (other than the current annual
version) and discussions on key industry issues may be found here.
http://www.sec.gov/ The Securities
Exchange Commission
http://www.nyt.com/ The
http://www.tfsd.com/ Formerly,
http://www.securitiesdata.com/,
now Thompson Financial Securities Data.
This site has the latest updates on
http://www.nyse.com/ The website of the
NYSE, exchange rules are online.
http://www.nasd.com/ The National
Association of Securities Dealers website.
http://www.sipc.com/ The
Securities Investor Protection Corporation website.
www.morningstar.com, www.ici.org mutual fund information
http://www.ici.org Investment Company Institute website. See the Mutual Fund Fact book for industry
statistics.
http://www.lipperweb.com/ Lipper
Analytical Services is an excellent site for mutual fund information.
http://www.Refco.ca Refco
Futures (