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Bonds
- InvestingInBonds.com: Bond information and bond prices, sponsored by the Bond Market Association.
- Bondtrac: Database of corporate, agency, and municipal bond offerings from across the nation.
- About.com - Bonds: Questions about bonds? Get educated about bonds and learn the basics.
Financial Planning
- Quicken.com: Great resource for individual finance, such as mortgages, insurance, taxes etc.
Government Agencies
Leadership
- Toastmasters: Toastmasters offers a proven way to improve your communication skills. By participating in a fun and supportive Toastmasters group, you'll become a better speaker and leader and gain confidence to succeed in whatever path you've chosen in life.
Markets and Market News
- Financial Market Strategies: Weekly publication by Dr. Sung Won Sohn; provides summary of major and selected Economic Indicators, Federal Reserve, Currency and Financial Markets data, and Macro Economic commentary. (Access by clicking on Publications within site.)
- Standard and Poor's: A respected name in rating and indexing stocks, Standard & Poor’s site is full of information, Scorecards, in-depth analysis and research.
- Morningstar: ’Your first second opinion.’’ Morningstar.net provides unbiased data and analysis, and candid editorial commentary.
- NASDAQ: Market information in several sectors, articles, charts & graphs. There’s even a live Webcam to Times Square.
- IPO Central: IPO’s are hot, and Hoover’s brings you the latest info on upcoming IPO’s.
- Bloomberg: Financial news of the world markets.
- Andrew Tobias: Andrew Tobias offers a balanced view amidst the current market hoopla. Calculators and a library of Andrew’s daily columns can be found here.
- Morningstar: Market analysis and information for 401K participants.
Mutual Funds
- Hedgefund.net: Ever considered investing in a hedge fund? Not for the faint of heart, but if your net worth is $1 million or more, you may want to take a look at hedge funds. Your due diligence can begin with this site.
News, Newspapers and Periodicals
- Fortune: Advice on finance and strategy for large and small companies. Learn about the top employers and most admired companies and executive teams.
- CNNfn: CNN Financial - the definitive financial news site.
- Barron's Online: Collections of market data, tools, resources, news and market commentary, by Barrons.
- Wall Street Journal: You’ve read the newspaper, now visit the Web site. The Wall Street Journal on-line.
- Forbes: Daily content on technology and finance from Forbes magazine.
- Bizjournals.com: A site dedicated to American City Business Journals; learn about business in cities you care about. A good resource for regional business news.
Reference and Research
- Hoover's: Hoovers calls itself ’’the Business Network’’ and that’s what this site is about. Research the companies you’re interested in investing in.
- E-LOAN: One-stop loan shopping and an e-mail notification of rates. This site covers several bases.
Worldlyinvestor.com: This site is actually a portal of information with several sections relative to different markets. You can browse by country or check out a specific time period.
- LawSmart.com: Want to stops being lawyer-dependent? This site will help you write letters and legal documents using a library of templates in several areas of consumer law.
- Autobytel: Buying a car or maintaining the one you have now, here is everything you need to know and more.
- Travelocity: Plan every aspect of your trip online, make reservations, find deals, and book flights.
Stocks
- Zacks: This site is loaded with charts, graphs and stock quotes. A highly educational site for the individual investor.
- Silicon Investor: Stocks, stocks, stocks. Lots of info on high-tech stocks and other movers and shakers.
- NYSE: Almost like being on the trading floor, visit this site for a real-time stock ticker and up-to-the-minute stock quotes.
- DTN InterQuote: DTN InterQuote is for the careful investor who cares what is spent on market information. An affordable quote service which is user-friendly.
- eSignal: Real-time stock quotes and market data tools for the serious investor.
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The FPA of the Greater Hudson Valley is a great source of information for your coverage of financial planning topics such as investments, mutual funds, insurance, estate planning, retirement, education funding, tax planning and much more! We will be happy to put you in touch with members who can provide background information or comments for your story. Please e-mail requests to Joe Murtagh. Be sure to include the words Press Request in the subject line. It would also be helpful for us to know the topic and/or questions that you have. We can then guide you to the best sources on that topic.
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