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Blogs Web Logs, or Blogs for short, are an exploding but extremely uneven source of information in investing. A few good Blogs include:
Glossaries Campbell R. Harvey's Hypertextual Finance Glossary: A Duke University finance professor's collection of over 8,000 entries and 18,000 hyperlinks. Possibly the largest financial glossary on the Internet. One of the best glossaries is Dictionary of Financial Risk Management made available on the Amex web site. Here is an extensive dictionary of investment terms from a well known site Investopedia.com. Words are grouped according to subject as well as being alphabetized. However, watch out that you don't drown in all the ads! Given the language of finance, you can't have too many sites to help you make sense of all the jargon. Here are two more: Axone Services and Financial Dictionary. Where else could you find a definition of "normal backwardation theory?" Riskglossary.com offers a small, specialized glossary that can provide answers missing in larger collections. A glossary of terms peculiar to hedge fund investing, brief but useful. Investor Education Investor Education Sites: The Security and Exchange Commission's (SEC) own links to useful and informative sites, an impeccable reference. Path To Investing, provided by the Securities Industry Association, is rich in resources and a pleasure to use. An interesting, if basic common
sense, approach to becoming wealthy may be found in Michael Masterson's
Automatic
Wealth: The Six Steps to Financial Independence Media The established financial print media, newspapers, magazines, journals and the like, have carried content over to the Internet and continue to be an important source of financial information. Barron's, Business Week, Economist, Financial Times, Forbes, and Wall Street Journal. Portals
Probably the easiest and quickest way to stay abreast of the rapidly changing financial markets is through the so-called Internet portals, sites that provide a broad picture window on the investment world. Among the best portals are Bloomberg, CNN/Money, Google Finance, MarketWatch, MSN Money, Reuters, SmartMoney, and Yahoo! Finance. Research If you want to do basic research on stocks and mutual funds, you start with the Security and Exchange Commission's (SEC) EDGAR, short for electronic data gathering and retrieval, which is the repository for the voluminous documents all foreign and domestic companies have to file. The site is imposing and not easy to navigate, but it's all here and it's free. Here is a brief introduction to what you will find when you go to EDGAR, a good reference to have on hand when you explore the site. There are a limited number of commercial sites that provide guided access to EDGAR. Most of the sites impose fees for advanced features, but all provide some basic free services. @Edgar, SEC Info, EDGAR Online Pro, LiveEdgar.
EDGAR,
The Investor's Guide to Making Better Investments Corporate annual reports continue to be the prime source of information on which most investors depend. Two sites which provide annual reports are Annual Report Service and AnnualReports.com. Search Engines Most of the time when you want information from the Internet on topics in personal finance and investing, you just have to go and dig for it. The major search engines, such as Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft's MSN, are often adequate to the task, but not always. Here are some specialized searching tools that may be helpful.
Technorati:
is one of the best of a growing list of search engines aimed primarily at
unearthing information from Weblogs, or so-called Blogs, that are hosted
usually by only one individual and growing rapidly in scope and number. The
search engine powerhouse Google also has a Blog search engine,
Google
Blog Search.
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