Investment and Personal Finance Sources

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Investment and Personal Finance Sources

Web Sites

Bankrate.com
Search out the best bank rates in your area for loans and other services. Site includes practical advice on many topics including car loans, mortgages, credit cards, and personal loans. Many financial calculators.

Quicken
Powerful investment web site for stock quotes, news, analysis, and stock comparisons. In addition to stock and mutual funds information, this web site includes information on taxes, home loans, and insurance quotes.

Smartmoney.com
Web site combines up to the minute news stories with stock and fund information. Includes an impressive section on personal finance issues including worksheets to help evaluate personal finance decisions.

Clearstation
This web site provides fundamental and technical information helpful in analyzing and evaluating stocks. An education section demystifies technical analysis for the novice.

Cardweb.com, Inc.
Search lists of no-fee and low-rate credit cards, rebate cards, secured cards, and even some union cards for the card that is right for you.

Yahoo! Finance
Great compendium of web site links with plenty of resources of its own. Lots of basic information.

Fool.com
The Motley Fool web site has lively online forums in addition to a wealth of information.

www.annualreports.com
Free annual report service that covers many, but not all, public companies.

ONLINE DATABASES

General Business File ASAP and Business and Company ASAP are two databases (part of the larger online subscription database InfoTrac) that contain excellent business and investment information. Particularly useful is “Investext” which includes company reports from A. G. Edwards & Sons, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup and others. To access “Investext”, click on General Business File ASAP (do not enter through Powersearch) and click advanced search on left side of screen. You now have the option at bottom of screen to search “Investext.”

In Our Reference Department

Morningstar Mutual Funds

Standard and Poor's Bond Guide

Standard and Poor's Outlook

Standard and Poor's Stock Guide

Standard and Poor's Stock Market Encyclopedia

Standard and Poor's Trends & Projections

Value Line Investment Survey (We carry the regular edition as well as the Small and Midcap Edition)

Walker's Manual of Micro-Cap Stocks

Walker's Manual of Unlisted Stocks

Newspapers

Barron's

Banker & Tradesman

Investor's Business Daily

Wall Street Journal

Magazines

Forbes

Fortune

Kiplinger's

Money

Smart Money

Books

A sampling of the many books in our circulating collection.

Personal Finance

	Start Late, Finish Rich by David Bach [332.024 BAC]
	The Standard & Poor's Guide to Saving and Investing for College by David Braverman [378.3 BRA]
	You Don't Have To Be Rich by Jean Chatzky [332.024 CHA]
	The 529 College Savings Plan by Richard Feigenbaum [378.38 FEI]
	Good Debt, Bad Debt by Jon Hanson [332.024 HAN]
	The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom by Suze Orman [332.024 ORM] Also at the same call number are two more of her books: The Laws of Money, the Lessons of Life and The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous & Broke
	The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey [332.024 RAM]
	The New Money Book of Personal Finance edited by Sheryl Tucker [332.024 NEW]