Financial Forecast Center

The focus of this site is to provide forecasts for stock indexes, stock prices, interest and money rates, foreign exchange rates, and other economic indicators. Visit here to learn about special news for CPAs, proposed AICPA statements and working drafts, and the benefits of being a member of AICPA.

MarketVector

MarketVector uses artificial intelligence to create forecasts of stock markets, exchange rates, interest rates, and economic indicators.

Federal Reserve Bank

This site contains a map that allows you to access all of the Federal Reserve Bank locations and most of their economic research.

Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED)

FRED, accessed through the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, provides a database of more than 800 U.S. economic time series. Data can be downloaded in Microsoft Excel and text formats.

Factiva

Quickly search nearly 8,000 publications in 22 languages. The Company Screening area enables you to retrieve a list of quoted companies based on financial criteria that you specify.

Zacks

Provides market headlines, daily hot stocks, positive and negative earnings surprises, and expert ratings on select industries and stocks. Zacks also provides predefined and customized stock screening tools.

Yahoo! Finance

Provides an up-to-date market summary, current business news, and information on various business topics. You also can query specific stocks to obtain financial statement data, stock price history, financial ratios, and performance graphs.

Wall Street Research Net

Provides market news, updates, earnings reports, and stock screening tools.

Smart Money

Provides up-to-date stock, bond, and mutual fund prices along with news updates and screening tools.

InvestorWords

A comprehensive financial glossary that contains more than 6,000 definitions and more than 20,000 links between related terms.

Bond Market Association

The Bond Market Association provides numerous links to Internet sites created by securities firms and banks, governmental entities, and vendors that provide information to investors and the financial industry.

Bonds Online

Get real-time prices of more than 15,000 current bond offerings, for U.S. corporate bonds, municipal bonds, Treasury bonds, STRIPS and CDs. Useful tools include daily U.S. Treasury yield curve and corporate yield spreads for all grades of U.S. corporate bonds.

Options Industry Council

Educational material and various tools to assist beginning and expert investors. The site also includes an Options Calculator that allows you to input variables to price American or European options based on three models.

WRDS offers instant, easy access to the databases that define empirical research in the fields of accounting, banking, economics, finance, insurance, management, marketing, public policy, risk management, and statistics.

The simple, yet powerful interface provides point-and-click access and a menu of variables for researching one firm or several hundred firms simultaneously. Entire databases can be downloaded to a PC for further analysis, or users may run a variety of statistical analysis software, including SAS, C, or FORTRAN programs, on the WRDS UNIX server.

Personal accounts are limited to faculty and Ph.D. candidates. Others may be granted under special circumstances.

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Standard & Poor's
Standard & Poor's Search and Advanced Search tools allow you to design search strings that query records and fields that give you access to the data contained in up to 13 Standard & Poor's publications. This site also provides a glossary of investment terms.

Forbes "Best of..." Lists
Find lists from Forbes magazine on everything from best small companies and best big companies to the richest Americans and best-paid CEOs.

• BusinessWeek Online
• Forbes Magazine
• Wall Street Journal
• Finance & Development (a quarterly publication of the International Monetary Fund)

The Whisper Report
Provides information regarding current earnings guidance and top earnings news.

VCall
Provides live and archived webcasts of corporate communications.

StarMine
Offers analyst ratings and SmartEstimates.

Marvin A. Pomerantz Business Library
United States Company and Industry Resources.