Financial Information
Investment Relative Information in the U.S.
U.S. Stocks Markets (Infobeat E-mail Services) -- You can subscribe a mail from here to get the final closing of the US stock market everyday. It is in alliance with Money Online.
JP Morgan -- Offers data including its Commodity Index, Currency Indices, Emerging Markets Bond Index, Government Bond Index, Government Bond Market Outlines, and Mortgage Indices. JP Morgan is using the Internet to offer information needed to implement their RiskMetrics methodology and to provide data which can help managers control risk of their positions by using information on volatilities and correlations among over 300 financial assets.
Merrill Lynch OnLine -- This is a site with a client access button, product information, as well as selected Merrill Lynch commentary and research for all users.
Morgan Stanley -- Morgan Stanley provides MSCI international stock price data, among other things.
NewsPage -- Information of Banking, Finance, and Real Estate
CNNfn -- Market Closing Prices for Oil, Metals, U.S. Dollar and Treasury Market. Information is free and timely. Very Popular with investors and banker types.
JPB Corporation -- It is the homepage that provide several useful information in business, such as exchange rates, brokerage, stock prices, mutual funds, Central Banks in G-7, etc.
Enth -- Enth is a provider of Internet search, navigation, and retrieval technology for distributed data. While this description of Enth.com may sound complex, it services a simple and common need.
Dealflow -- The web resource for accelerating SMALL VENTURE exposure and evaluation.
United States Federal Information Links
US Securities and Exchange Commission -- The SEC is an independent, nonpartisan, quasijudicial regulatory agency with responsibility for administering the federal securities laws. The purpose of these laws is to protect investors in securities markets that operate fairly and to ensure that investors have access to disclosure of all material information concerning publicly traded securities. The Commission also regulates firms engaged in the purchase or sale of securities, people who provide investment advice, and investment companies.
National Information Center -- The National Information Center (NIC) provides comprehensive information on banks and other institutions for which the Federal Reserve has a supervisory, regulatory, or research interest including both domestic and foreign banking organizations operating in the U.S. The NIC includes the organizational structure of financial institutions and financial information for some of those institutions. Historical information is available on the structure of all the institutions. Financial information is available for selected time periods. This page is provided to you by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
The Dismal Scientist -- It is a listing of the major economic indicators, periodically released by the U.S. government.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) -- There are lots of information and data in the Banking area. This booklet describes the deposit insurance coverage provided by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to depositors of insured banks and insured savings associations. The FDIC is an independent agency of the U.S. Government. It was established by Congress in 1933 to insure bank deposits, help maintain sound conditions in our banking system, and protect the nation’s money supply in case of financial institution failure. FDIC-insured deposits are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States. Here is the elcetronic files of the instructions of Reports of Condition and Income Report Guide (Call Rport). Here is the Call/TFR Information. FFIEC 031-034 forms are also avaible from 1996 until current. The data of call report for all commercial banks is available at Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) -- It was established on March 10, 1979, pursuant to the title X of the Financial Institutions Regulatory and Interest Rate Control Act of 1978 (FIRA), Public Law 95-630. In 1989, title XI of the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989 (FIRREA) established The Appraisal Subcommittee (ASC) within the Examination Council. The Council is a formal interagency body empowered to prescribe uniform principles, standards, and report forms for the federal examination of financial institutions by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FRB), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) and to make recommendations to promote uniformity in the supervision of financial institutions. The Council was given additional statutory responsibilities by section 340 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1980 to facilitate public access to data that depository institutions must disclose under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act of 1975 (HMDA) and the aggregation of annual HMDA data, by census tract, for each metropolitan statistical area (MSA). What is Community Reinvestment Act (CRA)? CRA Home is a good site for you to refer. If you still don't know what is the forms and instructions of Reports of Condition and Income Report Guide (Call Rport), you might be interested in taking a look.
Federal Reserve Banks -- The web site the links to Federal Reserve Board and 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks. Addresses and phone numbers of the Federal Reserve board and 12 local Federal Reserve Banks are also available. If you do not know the location of those banks yet, it is the good site for you to realize the location of 12 banks. The map of this site is really helpful for you. 12 Federal Reserve Banks are as following:
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago -- All data of U.S. commercial bank's and bank holding company's call reports are available here.
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis -- Woodrow has the entire Beige Book -- national economic summary, Agricultural Credit Conditions, Ninth District States' Forecasts, H.15 Statistical Release -- selected interest rates, Interest and Exchange Rate Charts, Bank Directories and Industry/Money Supply Data.
Federal Reserve bank of New York -- Find rates on commercial paper, foreign exchange, buying rates, quote sheet and selected interest rates.
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia -- Good web site has Livingston Survey of Economists, Survey of Professional Forecasters, Beige Book and Business Review.
Federal Reserve bank of St. Louis -- It has the link to FRED that provides historical database of economic and financial data
Federal Reserve Board Statistical Releases and Historical Data -- weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual releases.
Business Cycle Indicators -- a well-organized, comprehensive stop for indexes on labor, output, sales, prices, wages, savings, imports and exports, money supply, composites and more.
International Trade Statistics -- from the U.S. Census Bureau.
State Export Facts -- from the U.S. Department of Commerce.
U.S. Federal Government Agencies Directory -- It is a completed list of federal agencies on the internet. It is contributed from the LSU library.
Census of Agriculture 1982, 1987, 1992 -- The Census of Agriculture, from the Census Bureau, provides a complete picture of the agricultural sector in the U.S. economy by county, state or ZIP code. It is also available in the Agriculture section of U.S. Census Bureau.
United States Department of Agriculture -- It is the official website of U.S. Department of Agriculture. It provides lots of information related to agriculture. In the menu of Agencies, Services , & Programs, you can find Risk Management Agency (RMA) under Farm & Foreign Agricultural Service. Under Risk Management Agency (RMA), you can find Summary of Business Data/Reports, County Crop Program, Price Summaries, FIPS State Codes, FCIC Crop Codes, and Insurance Plan Codes under Participation Data. National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), Economic Research Service (ERS), and Agricultural Research Service (ARS) can be found under Research, Education, & Economics. Census of Agriculture Data is available under National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS).
Economic Research Service (ERS) -- It is a website design by U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Farm Credit Administration -- The Farm Credit Administration (FCA or Agency) is an independent agency in the executive branch of the U.S. Government. It is responsible for the regulation and examination of the banks, associations, and related entities that collectively comprise what is known as the Farm Credit System (System), including the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation (Farmer Mac). Initially created by an Executive order of the President in 1933, the Agency now derives its powers and authorities from the Farm Credit Act of 1971, as amended (Act). FCA's mission is to promote a safe and sound, competitive Farm Credit System.
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) -- It was created by Congress in 1953 to help America's entrepreneurs form successful small enterprises. Today, SBA's program offices in every state offer financing, training and advocacy for small firms. These programs are delivered by SBA offices in every state, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. In addition, the SBA works with thousands of lending, educational and training institutions nationwide.
Bureau of the Public Debt -- If you are looking for a safe saving instrument, you might not want to miss the U.S. government saving bonds. You can find those U.S. government securities in this page. It is pretty neat.
Bureau of Economic Analysis -- You can find the national and regional economic data here.
U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics -- There are lots of different local statistical data available in this site, such as Bureau of Labor Statistics Data. You can customize the data in a table and download it.
Federal Housing Finance Board -- It regulates the 12 FHLBanks that were created in 1932 to improve the supply of funds to local lenders that, in turn, finance loans for home mortgages. The board also has regulatory authority and supervisory oversight responsibility for the Office of Finance. The Finance Board ensures that the FHLBanks, which are privately capitalized, government-sponsored enterprises, operate in a safe and sound manner, carry out their housing and community development finance mission, and remain adequately capitalized and able to raise funds in the capital markets. The Finance Board is an independent regulatory agency of the executive branch of the U.S. Government, with a five-member board. This site provides EXCEL file for the Monthly Interest Rate Survey. The survey provides monthly information on interest rates, loan terms, and house prices by property type (all, new, previously occupied), by loan type (fixed- or adjustable-rate), and by lender type (savings associations, mortgage companies, commercial banks, and savings banks), as well as information on 15- and 30-year fixed-rate loans. In addition, the survey provides quarterly information on conventional loans by major metropolitan area and by FHLBank district.
Taiwan Government Related Information links
The Securities and Futures Investors Protection Center (財團法人證券投資人及期貨交易人保護中心) -- It is an organization set up under the Act to provide: consultation on the trading of securities and futures as regulated by related laws and regulations; mediation of disputes arising from the trading of securities and futures; and litigation services on behalf of investors. In addition, the Center manages a protection fund to compensate investors should securities or futures companies are unable to do so due to financial difficulties. Click here (Traditional Chinese and English) for the links related to the securities in Taiwan.
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Academic and Journal Related Information
Ohio State University Financial Data Finder -- It is the site from the Department of Finance, Fisher College of Business, in Ohio State University. It sorts the links alphabetically.
Ohio State University Business Job Finder -- It provides the information about the employer, job hunting advice, etc.
List of Financial Journals -- It is under the website of Department of Finance, Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University.
Finance Site List -- It is an incredible site that I have ever seen. These web links are placed here for those interested in understanding and teaching financial ideas. There are lots of links to the sites of finance journals, institutional working paper, personal working papers, research materials, educational resources, etc. If you are a professor or student majoring in Finance or Economics, you will regret without browing this site. If you are interested in Finance or Economics, don't forget to have a tour in this site. This site is strongly recommended. The site is maintained by the Journal of Finance.
American Banking Association (ABA) -- the American Bankers Association represents banks of all sizes on issues of national importance for financial institutions and their customers. The ABA, which was founded in 1875, brings together all categories of banking institutions, including community, regional and money center banks and holding companies, as well as savings associations, trust companies and savings banks.
Department of Finance in Drexel University -- There are several useful links to the financial resources, such as the financial information link library, Ohio State University Financial Data Finder, etc.
Center of International Business and Business Education in University of Chicago
Home page of Macroeconomic Resource on the Internet, from Harvard University.
UnCoverWeb -- It is a database of current article information taken from well over 18,000 multidisciplinary journals. UnCover contains brief descriptive information for over 8,800,000 articles which have appeared since Fall 1988. UnCover offers you the opportunity to order fax copies of the articles from this database. UnCover is easy to use, with keyword access to article titles and summaries.
FINWeb -- The objective of FINWeb is to list Internet resources providing substantive information concerning economics and finance-related topics.
Journal of Agricultural Lending -- Since 1986, designed for the agricultural lender as a catalyst for new ideas and practical approaches to banking challenges. It is one of the website belong to ABA.
Department of Finance and Quantitative Analysis, University of Otago -- It documents a nice quick-start user guide of CompuState. It also contains some data source.
Academic Journal Ranking in Business -- The ranking of academic journal in business.
The Journal of Financial Economics, A Retrospective Evaluation, 1974-91 -- It is the link to the paper by Professor G. William Schwert. You can also link to all star papers, 1974-1996, by Journal of Financial Economics.
The WWW Virtual Library -- It provides lot of links to different disciplines, such as OSU Virtual Finance Library, and Resources for Economists on the Internet (RFE) and WWW Resources in Economics (WebEc) on WWW Virtual Library: Economics.
EconLibrary.com -- It is a business and economic literature reference search database on the internet. Here you will find over 300,000 bibliographic references from 500 leading journals of business and economics available through a fast keyword search engine.
Media Logic Economic Indicators -- Has hundreds of data series from 1948 to the present including interest rates, CPI, options prices and industry group performance information.
Resources for Economists on the Internet -- It is an excellent list of available web and gopher sites. This guide lists the many resources on the Internet of interest to academic and practicing economists, and those interested in economics. In all, more than 700 resources are listed here and almost all are also described. It has been reorganized and completely updated since the last edition. The address of the primary site is also much easier to remember: rfe.org.
Statistical Resources on the Web -- It is the document center in University of Michigan. There are lots of statistical data and information in different categories. Government Resources on the Web is also a good site to search for the information in different countries.
Agricultural and Resource Economics Review -- The purpose of the Review is to foster and disseminate professional thought and literature relating to the economics of agriculture, natural resources, and community development. It is published twice a year in April and October. In addition to normal refereed articles, it also publishes invited papers presented at the annual meetings of the NAREA as well as abstracts of selected papers presented at those meetings. The Review was formerly known as the Northeastern Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics.
Wharton Financial Institutions Center -- Access selected papers in .PDF format made available by the Wharton Financial Institutions Center. Conference proceedings include the series of "Risk Management in Banking", "Risk Management in Insurance Firms", "The Brookings-Wharton Papers on Financial Services", and the "Performance of Financial Institutions." Also included is a Working Paper Series (1994- recent).
Economic Working Papers on the Web -- It is the Quicklinks provided by the Arizona State University Hayden Library. Economic Working Papers on the Web provides excellent links for the working paper series related to economics and finance in different sources.
ECONbase -- It is a website to look for publish opportunities in Finance and Economics. It shows the deadline and journal or conference for the calls for the papers.
FinanceWise -- It is a search engine that specializes in Finance. FinanceWise doesn't aim to index the Internet in its entirety, only sites which possess content of interest to the financial world. Every topic, from risk management to syndicated finance and equities is indexed in depth, with the contents of each site evaluated by our editorial staff before sites are allowed into FinanceWise's search index.
CAMELS rating -- CAMELS' EYE Co. has a very good description of the CAMELS rating of the banking system. There also some goodies for free download.
MIT's OpenCourseWare -- It is a free, open publication of MIT Course Materials. You are invited to view all the courses available at this time.Sloan School of Management provides the lecture notes in all business and economics related courses. here is the entrance of Multilingual MIT Open Course Ware translation portal site. All course materials are translated into Traditional Chinese version繁体中文版 and Simple Chinese version简体中文版.
Eric Weisstein’s World of Mathematics (MathWorldTM) -- It is the free service for the mathematical community provided by Wolfram Research, Inc., makers of Mathematica. It is the web's mathematical resource, assembled over more than a decade by internet encyclopedist Eric W. Weisstein with assistance from the mathematics and internet communities. Organizations referencing MathWorld include American Scientist, Business Week, The Canadian Mathematical Society, Computer User, Desktop Engineering, Math Forum @Drexel, New Scientist,Science Magazine, Science News, Scientific American, and Yahoo! Internet Life.
Dr. Ed Yardeni's Economics Network -- This is the site that I strongly recommand to visit. There are several kinds of useful information listed in this homepage., such as best charts of the month, list of business and law schools, monetary and fiscal policy, forcast table, economic history, economic indicators, etc.
Damodaran Online -- This web site is designed to provide supporting material for corporate finance related topics by Dr. Aswath Damodaran.
Professor Larry Harris Homepage -- Professor Harris holds the Fred V. Keenan Chair in Finance at the Marshall School of Business at theUniversity of Southern California. His research, teaching and consulting projects primarily address trading and investment management issues that arise in financial markets. His introduction to the economics of trading, TRADING AND EXCHANGES: Market Microstructure for Practitioners (Oxford University Press: 2003) is widely regarded as the definitive treatment of the subject. Harris consults to traders, exchanges, investment banks, regulators and litigators. Most of his academic papers are listed in this site.
Professor Kenneth R. French Homepage -- Professor French is the Carl E. and Catherine M. Heidt Professor of Finance at the Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College. His recent research focuses on empirical estimates of the cross-section of expected stock returns, the cost of capital, dividend policy, and capital structure. Data library is the excellent resource for the researchers who are doing the research in investment.
Professor Junsoo Lee Advanced Econometrics Course -- It provides very good sources for studying econometrics and learning programming in Stata. STATA BASIC COMMANDS is a good reference for the Stata user.
Professor Campbell R. Harvey's Homepage --Campbell R. Harvey is the J. Paul Sticht Professor of International Business at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. He is also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The website provides very good source of finance related knowledge in his course materials. such as Asset Pricing Model.
Country Risk Analysis -- It is an excellent homepage from Dr. Campbell R. Harvey. His Finance Links are also useful for doing the research. Hypertextual Finance Glossary is a good resource to check out the term.
Social Science Research Network -- Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences. The network consists of six directories, Accounting Research Network, Economics Research Network, Latin American Network, Financial Economics Network, Legal Scholarship Network, and Litigation Support Network. The Networks encourage readers to communicate directly with authors and other subscribers concerning their own and others' research. To facilitate this, it publishes detailed author contact information including email addresses for authors of each paper. It also provides electronic delivery of the papers when authors wish to do so. See the SSRN ELECTRONIC LIBRARY.
FinanceProfessor.com -- It bringing the real world to the class room and vice versa. Lots of finance related information is provided.
Social Sciences Citation Index -- It is a site related to the Journal list of SSCI.
Office for Futures and Options Research (OFOR) -- This is a site for working paper series, web resources, OFOR publications, symposium and seminar information related to futures, options, and derivatives. Site sponsored by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
LSU Virtual Library -- It includes list of gov't links, lots of business and economic data, and much, much more. Especially, Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate, Economics and Statistics, Economic Development, Business and Industry News, and Business and Career Sources are useful to the students and researchers major in Finance.
Main Index for DERIVATIVES INTERNET LINKS -- It is a good resource for a beginner who would like to know about the derivatives.
Riskinstitute.ch -- This website guides you through the most important official documents on financial regulation and risk management.
The Financial Intermediation Research Society (FIRS): This is a global society of research scholars dedicated to the purpose of stimulating, promoting and disseminating research in financial intermediation. The website provide information on conferences on financial intermediation topics worldwide, outlines of doctoral courses taught at various schools, and research papers. One of the major function of the society is to appoint the board of editors of The Journal of Financial Intermediation.
SSCI Journal List -- A sound collection of the SSCI journals
Where to look for stocks, bonds, options, and futures information?
Quote.COM* -- Real-time dynamic charts let investors watch the market tick by tick ($9.95 to $99.95 a month)
Yahoo!Finance* -- Superb free site that tracks portfolios and provides market news plus links to a wide range of financial information, such as analyst upgrades and downgrades.
Investor.cnet.com -- You can track long stock-price histories here. If you need to know when the stock split, you can type in the ticker symbol first and click on "splits".
Businessweek.com -- It also provide the same services of Yahoo!Finance and Investor.cnet.com. Of course, you also can search news in it.
MultexInvestor -- Join the free membership and you can get the real time quotes here. It also provides news, analyst research and screening tools of the securities.
Zacks.COM -- It features the Zacks Broker Research Report Service.
Stockscreener -- It features the function of screening the stocks based on different criteria.
Fidelity's My MarketNet -- It is a free site that can provide users to set up their own portfolio. It also has the service of the news and charts(5 minutes, daily, weekly, monthly, three months, six months, and yearly based) of a stock.
Briefing.COM* -- Strong on currency analysis, foreign exchange, and fixed-income markets ($6.95 to $25 a month).
CBS Marketwatch* -- Formerly DBC Online, the site provides free news and market analysis; plus tiered pricing plans ($29.95 to $79 a month) for those who need more timely and detailed coverage.
Edgar Online* -- Free access to many SEC filings; $9.95 a month and up for people who want same-day filings.
Investools.COM* -- Lets you read articles from different investment newsletters for a fee.
Microsoft Investor* -- One-stop investing site with research, charts, stock- and fund-sceening tools, and links to online brokers; $9.95 a month for regular subscribers.
Smartmoney Interactive* -- Offers portfolios and stories with stock picks; access to the interactive Wall Street Journal and Barron's sites ($49 a year for nonprint subscribers).
The Street.COM* -- Features original editorial content and columnists such as hedge-fund manager James J. Cramer ($6.95 a month or $9.95 with E-mail delivery).
Wall Street City* -- Excellent stock sceening and other analytical tools ($9.95 to $34.95 a month)
NASDAQ.COM -- It provides the stock quote, companies, market news, and market activities in NASDAQ.
Bonds-Online -- It is the resource for fixed income investment. Some information of bonds is free. It includes information on tax-free municipal bonds, treasury/savings bonds, corporate bonds, and bond funds. Learn the basics of the bond market with the Bond Professor.
BondTrac Free Services -- requires free registration. It is the same site as Bonds-Online.
Yahoo! Bonds -- Several links for the information about bonds
InvestinginBonds.com -- It provides the detail data and analysis of bonds and daily updates of the Treasury yield curve.
TurtleTrader.com -- This page contains an abundance of free information and research data. New content is added regularly. It is a good resource for options and futures.
The Office for Futures and Options Research -- The Office for Futures and Options Research (OFOR) promotes and enhances scholarly research and learning of futures, options, and derivative markets at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).
Numa Web -- It is a Internet's home page for financial derivatives. The calculator is cool for several kinds of derivatives.
Yahoo! Options and Futures -- It provides several links to the sites of options and futures.
American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) -- This website is a joint project of J.P. Morgan acting under license from the Carson Group, Inc. ("Carson").
ALTAVEST Worldwide Trading, Inc.-- Commodity futures and options brokerage offering online trading.
Brite Futures, Inc. -- Offers free commodity futures charts and quotes.
StockSelector.com -- It is an very impressive Website. You can find different research and analyses of the company. It is great. You also can submit your personal estimated stock price. There is also a list of StockSelector 50. It can be your reference when you are choosing a stock.
StockDetectives -- You can form your protfolio here. This website also direct you to different research centers.
SuperTradeAsia -- It is an online trading broker. It has a very good list of American Depository Receipts (ADRs). The link of the Asia ADRs in Chinese is here.
Exchange-Traded Fund(ETF) -- ETF stands for Exchange-Traded Fund. ETF can track the performance of a growing number of different index funds. Most ETFs represent a portfolio of stocks designed to track one specific index. ETFs can be bought and sold exactly like a stock of an individual company during the entire trading day. ETFs can be in the form of either index-based exchange-traded funds or closed-end exchange-traded funds. Like a traditional mutual fund, an ETF is an investment structure that pools the assets of its investors and uses professional managers to invest the money in a variety of securities, sectors, and styles. Unlike a mutual fund, however, shares of the funds are traded on a stock exchange such as the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) or the American Stock Exchange (AMEX). Furthermore, they can be bought on margin, sold short or bought at limit prices. Other ETFs allow you to invest by industry sector, size, region or investment style. Exchange traded funds can help investors build a diversified portfolio that’s easy to track.** You can learn more about the tax advantage of ETFs from ETFConnect.com and iShares.com.
Wilshire Associates -- Wilshire Associates is a global investment advisory firm that provides investment products and services, including investment consulting, asset management, mutual fund management and analytical tools. They serve more than 400 organizations in over 20 countries, representing assets totaling more than $2.5 trillion. Wilshire 5000 and Wilshire 4500 are two of their indexes.
Mutual Fund Magazine Database of Fund Performance -- Tabulate and chart the performance of most mutual funds, or screen funds by expense ratios, type and performance. You can even locate a page for your own funds and create a permanent bookmark to see how it's doing (so you know how much to spend at the Mall this week).
YoungInvestor.com -- It is the website to educate the youngsters about the investing.
MAXfunds.com -- It is the website that provides the information of funds which are either young or old. If you want to know more about the classes of the funds, you can check it on SEC website.
Optionetics.com -- Bringing you the best in option trading content, education, and products.
Futures Guide -- A Futures and Options E-Zine, EOD Quotes and Market Update.
Futures price Data -- Whatever you need. It's all there. It's current too. Thank Mr. Potts.
CISCO - Futures Research and Data -- Tick data on a variety of contracts. Much of it is free of charge
Virtual Investment Game
HedgeSim and TradeSim -- The site is hosted by Office for Futures and Options Research (OFOR)
HowTheMarketWorks.com -- It has a free Virtual Stock Exchange and lots of stock market information for the beginner.
OANDA.com -- It is a currency site to make comprehensive currency exchange information available over the Internet. It also provides the OANDA Currency Exchange™ game, which is a currency trading simulation where potential currency investors can sharpen their trading abilities before jumping into the exciting, $2 Trillion a day (50 times the size of the US equities market) currency trading market.
Information of Global Investment
International Monetary Fund -- The IMF is an international organization of 184 member countries. It was established to promote international monetary cooperation, exchange stability, and orderly exchange arrangements; to foster economic growth and high levels of employment; and to provide temporary financial assistance to countries to help ease balance of payments adjustment. It has selected exchange rates and country economic information.
Asia Online Finance -- For $32 a month, financial data, charts, and stock picks
Far Eastern Economic Review -- Asian business, finance, economics, and politics
Financial Times -- Selected articles, profiles of 8,500 global companies
Morgan Stanley Global Economic Forum -- A daily survey of major economies
Pronet -- Links to stock exchanges in Africa, Venezuela, and 59 other countries
Trader's Haven -- Megasite with link to sites from 76 countries
Washington Post -- Delayed stock quotes for companies worldwide
Global Financial Data -- Offering extensive free historical data and research as well as information on our extensive historical database which includes data on stock markets, inflation rates, interest rates and exchange rates going back to the 1600s.
ESPIN Stock Charts -- Daily free service - Technical analysis charts of U.S. and international stock market indices.
Central Statistical Office (UK) -- Offers a wide variety of financial time series for the United Kingdom at a cost including acquisitions, corporate liquidity, financial statistics, institutional investment, dividends and interest payments and pensions & insurance.
Helaba Trust -- Provides German market information at no charge
MATIF -- MATIF is the French futures and options exchange and offers investors products such as Stock index, interest rate , foreign exchange, and commodities. The web site has historical data and statistics.
Rye, Man & Gor Securities -- Fundamental information about the Russian equity market, the political and economic situation in the country, the daily main indicators, stock quotes, latest events on the market and our vision of those events.
Nikko Securities -- Reports monthly Japanese indices including: 1.Nikko Stock Performance Index 2.Nikko Bond Performance Index 3.Nikko Convertible Bond Performance Index 4.Nikko Japan Mix Index ( J-Mix )
Datastream International -- Datastream provides more than 720 million items of data, some updated daily, and much of it offering 20 years history or more. Included are: equity securities and indices; U.S. and international bonds and warrants; international economic series and indices, interest and foreign exchange rates, and macroeconomic data; corporate accounts, with ratios and balance sheets; derivatives, including options, futures, and swaps.
Fortitude -- You can download free historical equity data in the form DATE - OPEN - HIGH - LOW - CLOSE - VOLUME - OPEN INTEREST every day. Data available for major worldwide equity indices.
Securities Data Corporation -- Best provider of securities issue data, merger data and securities trading information (AutEx BlockDATA). They just added a database of Japanese bonds.
The Monster Board -- If you are searching for a job or finding employees, it is a site worth visiting. It also has the service internationally.
Aisa Crisis Hompage -- It is a good homepage addressing the situation of the Asia Crisis from Stern School of Business, New York University . It is a way for you to know more about Asia Crisis.
IBJ Securities RESEARCH & LINKS -- Research and links to English language resources on Japanese finance, economy, politics and law. Includes a comprehensive list of links to the English language websites of Japanese financial institutions and listed companies.
Central Banks of the World -- " ...An excellent starting point for finding any central bank in the world."-- The Wall Street Journal
Joint Bank-Fund Library Network -- These 14 World Bank and International Monetary Fund libraries work together to provide information services and resources to World Bank and IMF staff.
globalEDGE-- It provides lots of links to Internet sources of international business and economic information that are in English and available free of charge. Created by the International Business Center at Michigan State University (IBC), globalEDGE™ is a knowledge web-portal that connects international business professionals worldwide to a wealth of information, insights, and learning resources on global business activities. This site is partially funded by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI B grant. It is a good source for various global business knowledge.
Country Risk Analysis -- It is an excellent homepage from Dr. Campbell R. Harvey. His Finance Links are also useful for doing the research. Hypertextual Finance Glossary is a good resource to check out the term.
Euroland.com -- It is grown out of Europe Investor Direct. It has a wide database which contains 5 200 companies in eight different European stock markets (London, Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Zurich, Stockholm, Helsingi and Oslo) and 150 000 active investors. All together we send our information to 1, 8 million investors. Euroland.com offers for investors financial data and processed information about Europe's stock companies in their mother tounge and in 21 different currencies. Also Euroland offers for users possibility to create watchlist and portfolios across borders.
The Ultimate International Business & Economics Resource Page -- This site provides some good links to international business related sites.
Discounted Broker
Charles Schwab -- 1800-435-4000, $29.5 for either market or limit order. $45 per quarter is the inactivity fee.
Fidelity -- $25 for market order, $30 for limit order, and $75 for mutual fund order. $50 per year for the inactivity fee except the balance is over $30,000 or two trades in the past year.
E*Trade -- 1800-786-2575
Merrill Lynch Direct -- $29.95 for either market or limit order and no mutual fund order fee and inactivity fee.
Muriel Siebert -- $14.95 for either market or limit order and no inactivity fee
Morgan Stanley Online -- $29.95 for either market or limit order and no inactivity fee
TD Waterhouse -- $14.95 for market order and $17.95 for the limit order.
Ameritrade -- 1800-669-3900 -- $8; Dirt-cheap commissions, but next to no research.
Brokerage Direct -- 1800-347-2683 -- $14.95-19.95; Slick site can be customized. Sophisticated charting and real-time data.
DLJDIRECT -- 1800-825-5723 -- $20-60; A $100,000 account gives you access to DLJ research and IPO's.
Jack White -- 1800-216-2333
Lindner.Farsight -- 1800-830-7483 -- $7; Cheapest commissions, low margin rates. Beware the exit fee for IRA. Lets you pay your bills online.
Net Investor -- 1800-638-4250
Quick & Reilly -- 1800-837-7220 -- $14.95-19.95; Strong research. Broad menu includes ADRs, junk bonds, and options.
Suretrade -- 212-566-2031 -- $7.95; Quick & Reilly's deep-discount sibling requires no minimum balance, offers free IRAs.
Web Street Securities -- 1800-932-8723
Waterhouse -- 1800-555-3875
Scottrade -- $7 for market order and $12 for limit order. No fee for mutual fund order and inactivity fee. $1 each for trade confirmations.
Interactive Brokers -- $1 for each market or limit order. No mutual fund order fee but $3 per month for inactivity fee. $10 per month of market data feeds subscription can avoid the $3 inactivity fee.
Nasdr.com -- It is the site for you to check the complaints or disciplinary actions against the stockbroker.*
Brown & Company -- a brokerage service of J.P. Morgan Invest, LLC. Member NYSE, other principal stock and option exchanges, and SIPC.
ValuBond.com -- ValuBond, through its wholly-owned subsidiary ValuBond Securities, Inc., is a fixed income trading platform designed for firms servicing retail investors.
Refinancing Mortgages
Federal Home Loan Mortgage -- National and regional averages for mortgage rates and fees
HSH Association -- A guidebook to refinancing and the going rates for closing costs
Quicken Mortgage -- Daily average mortgage rates by states
Smartcalc -- Interactive calculators to help you decide when to refinance
Cendant Mortgage Company -- One of the choices for purchasing or refinancing the mortgage of your home
MortgageLoan.com - Mortgage Calculators -- It features several financial calculators. It is a good resource for calculating financial related issues.
Mortgage-Backed Securities related Information
Ginnie Mae: Issuers -- This page provides general information about issuers in Ginnie Mae's Mortgage-Backed Securities programs.
Fannie Mae -- Fannie Mae provides financial products and services that increase the availability and affordability of housing for low-, moderate- and middle-income Americans.
BondVu MBS Market Page -- The Fixed Rate MBS Market Page provides highlights of agencies dealing in mortgage-backed securities. Ginnie Mae (GNMA), Freddie Mac (FHLMC), and Fannie Mae (FNMA) composites are displayed.
Mortgage-Backed Securities -- There are several useful links about the Mortgage-Backed Securities here.
Mortgage-Backed Security and Mortgage Pass-Through -- The definition for the term by Contingency Analysis.
Fitch IBCA, Inc -- full service bond rating agency. news and research
Moody's Investors Service -- The leading provider of independent credit ratings, research and financial information to the capital markets.
Duff & Phelps, LLC -- Duff & Phelps is an independent, privately owned financial advisor and investment bank. Duff & Phelps, LLC is headquartered in Chicago, with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Professional Organizations links are also useful in this area.
Duff & Phelps Credit Rating Company (DCR) --Serving the global marketplace requires a unique blend of local-market expertise and global resources. Duff & Phelps Credit Rating Co. (DCR) has made its local credit rating professionals the foundation of its worldwide business. Their long-standing experience in local financial, economic and social developments is critical to the effective rating and monitoring of credits around the world.
Phoenix Investment Partners --one of the country's oldest and largest investment management firms.
The Bond Market Association -- There are tunks of statistics, reports, newsletter, and publication about asset-backed securities and mortgage-backed securities.
Investing in Bonds.com -- information for investors on municipals, corporates, mortgage-backed, and U.S. Government securities. offers extensive related links. a service of the Bond Market Association.
Financial Services Fact Book 2003 -- data of asset-back securities sources are included in this book.
Institute for Physical Planning & Information (財團法人國土規劃及不動產資訊中心) -- This is a brief introduction to economic issues in Taiwan. Much of the Data included in this table are constructed Monthly from 1971-2002. Economic Indicators include GNP (Gross National Product), CPI (Consumer Price Index), Monetary Aggregate (M1a, M1b……) and Property Indicators include Construction and Occupancy Permit, Transaction and Rent Index, etc.
The Asian Real Estste Society (AsRES) -- It was established in 1996 with an aim to produce and disseminate real estate related knowledge with particular emphasis on Asia. Starting with 60 founding members, AsRES has grown rapidly.
台灣房地產研究中心 -- 由政治大學社會科學院與中華民國住宅學會合作成立，提供自民國88年第一季到目前的房地產景氣指標季資料。
臺北市不動產數位資料庫 --
Technical Skills and Database in Financial Research
Ali Emrouznejad's DEA Homepage -- It is one of the most comprehensive sources of Data Envelopment Analysis. you may also visitFinanceSite to learn more about DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS (DEA) by Necmi K Avkiran. DEA page have some links to the free software including the SAS macro to run DEA. You may also visit Tim Anderson's DEA page with a short introduction to DEA. Holger's Scheel, the author of EMS, also provides lots of information it his page.
Source Codes in Financial Research -- It provides some sample source codes in SAS and Fortran by Premal P. Vora at Penn State University.
CRSP Data Access and Analysis -- This page, created by Don Cram, provide excellent resource for the issues using CRSP and SAS.
Pamela Peterson's Homepage -- She is a finance professor at Florida State University. There are lots of useful information in her webpage, especially her course materials. She is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). Study Aids for the CFA level II examination are available in her page too. If you are interested in the financial database, the materials of her class, Research Methods in Finance, should be helpful. In this class, exercises provide lots of useful information using finance database.
Financial Database -- It is a list of major financial database.
STATA Related Sites
Stata Data Analysis -- Here is a good start for the beginner of the Stata programming.
SAS and STAT conversion -- A SAS User's Guide to Stata by Carolina Population Center based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This guide is intended to introduce a SAS user to Stata and to be a cheat sheet when writing Stata code. There is a Stata tutorial to help any new user learn Stata. It is referred to on occasion throughout these pages.
Stata Tutorial -- These web pages designed by Carolina Population Center (CPC) assume that you are using Stata Version 11 for Windows. This tutorial is function-oriented, focusing on data-management tasks. It works up from basic tasks, such as how to drop variables, to the tasks needed for complex file organization, such as how to reshape and merge data files. The SAS User's Guide to Stata may help you make the transition from SAS to Stata.
Stata and Data Analysis -- It provides basic and some useful programming of Stat from Jeeshim and KUCC625's Web Site. It also provide some statistical program of SAS.
Professor Junsoo Lee Advanced Econometrics Course -- It provides very good sources for studying econometrics and learning programming in Stata. STATA BASIC COMMANDS is a good reference for the Stata user.
SAS Related Sites
SAS Online Samples -- SAS provides sample codes in this page. It is helpful to learn SAS from the examples. An index of books with online sample code is also available.
SAS Procedures Guide -- It is an online version of SAS procedures guide.
SAS Library in UCLA -- These pages tend to have in depth information about particular features of SAS and are a good resource when you want to get a greater detailed understanding of particular features in SAS. "What statistical analysis should I use?" is also a good resource for the SAS and SPSS users.
Dr. Wuensch's SAS Programs Page -- Here are links to SAS program files provided by Dr. Karl L. Wuensch. Those SAS examples are in either plain text files or SAS script format. Where the data are not included in the program, you can find the data file at StatData. In the Dr. Karl L. Wuensch's website, it also provides helpful information of SAS resources and SPSS resources.
SAS Textbook Examples -- It is provided by UCLA Academic Technology Services. This page contains pages that describe how to perform common statistical analyses using examples from textbooks. The data files are all available over the web so you can replicate the results shown in these pages. You can borrow the books via their Statistics Books for Loan, so you can read the books and gain a deeper conceptual understanding of the analyses illustrated.
SAS Online Doc - Manual -- It provides the online SAS manual of version 8 by Hitchcock.Org.
MCHPE SAS MANUAL -- Basic SAS PC tuitorial from Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba.
Eventus -- It performs state-of-the-art event study estimation and testing using the CRSP stock files or other stock return data and provides fast event-oriented data retrieval from the CRSP stock files. The program is developed by Cowan Research LC. The user's manual is available for the updated version or the old version.
Eventus Examples -- This is site related to CRSP and SAS issue hosted by the College of Business Administration, University of North Texas. It provides some examples how to run Eventus on SAS. It also has a page related to accessing CRSP data using SAS.
SAS教學網頁 -- It is a very good Chinese website for the beginner of SAS programming. This site is hosted by the Math Department of Tamkang University.
LIMDEP
LIMDEP STUDY SESSIONS -- LIMDEP Seminar provides good demonstration on LIMDEP.
Linear Regression Models for Panel Data Using SAS, Stata, LIMDEP, and SPSS -- This document summarizes linear regression models for panel data and illustrates how to estimate each model using SAS 9.1, Stata 10, LIMDEP 9, and SPSS 16. This document does not address nonlinear models (i.e., logit and probit models), but focuses on linear regression models.
Limdep PDF | Download Free Ebook Limdep -- It provide some codes for Limdep and STATA.
時間序列分析 教科書網頁 -- This site provides a source to gretl.
楊奕農 的 Gretl 使用指南 -有關 計量經濟 & 時間序列 的 YAYA 站 -- It is a very good site for the beginner of the gretl.
gretl for Windows -- GRETL is stand for Gnu Regression, Econometrics and Time-series Library. This is a free alternative for Eviews. So far, it is user friendly like Eviews. gretl for Windows comes in the form of a self-extracting executable, gretl-1.8.4.exe (Aug 28, 2009 , about 9MB). Another possibilility is to download the current "snapshot" of gretl from Wake Forest University: gretl_install.exe. This is likely to be somewhat more up to date: sometimes it will contain bug-fixes, and sometimes it will contain newly introduced bugs!
Lee Adkins' gretl page -- It provides couple web resources of grtel.
Biostatistics-Statistics Software Programs -- It is a page of Betty C. Jung's Web site. She provides excellent links to various statistics programs and information.
EconLibrary.com -- It is a business and economic literature reference search database on the internet. Here you will find over 300,000 bibliographic references from 500 leading journals of business and economics available through a fast keyword search engine.
MERGERSTAT (Information for an e.merging World) -- For more than 35 years, Mergerstat has been the analytical leader in U.S. mergers and acquisitions research. As a division of a national investment banking firm, the Mergerstat staff understands how you employ our research to determine value, make financial decisions and execute transactions. As a participant in the financial services industry, Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin's Mergerstat is dedicated to maintaining the highest analytical standards to ensure the integrity of our M&A data and analysis.
10-K WIZARD -- 10-K WIZARD 2.2 is the only search engine for SEC filings. With the free registration, you can access filings and receive alerts immediately when filed at the SEC! Downlading financial data schedule and tables to Excel arew also available. You can also access institutional and insider analysis from here.
Ibbotson Associates -- Ibbotson issues a variety of historical financial data showing returns on different asset classes. They are famous for their Stocks, Bonds, Bills and Inflation Yearbook and charts used by thousands of teachers and brokers to explain long haul returns on various assets. Ibbotson Associates also offers portfolio optimization software and consulting services to portfolio managers.
University of Washington-Office of Development -- This is a complete listing of all Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes. This is a code table developed by the US Department of Labor to classify industries.
BARRA -- It provides innovative analytical models, data, software and services that enable clients worldwide to make superior investment and trading decisions. Home of the BARRA Growth Index, the BARRA Value Index for S&P 500 and S&P Midcap firms, similar indices for Canadian firms, Dow Jones betas, and emerging market volatility rankings.
The Financial Forecast Center (mirror site)-- It is a very good website to get the historical and forecasting data of stock indexes, interest rates,exchange rates, and economic indicators.
Bankrate.com -- Bankrate.com is the web's leading aggregator of information on more than 100 financial products including mortgages, credit cards, new and used automobile loans, money market accounts, certificates of deposit, checking and ATM fees, home equity loans and online banking fees. It regularly surveys approximately 4,800 financial institutions in all 50 states in order to provide the most current objective, unbiased rates on banking products such as mortgages, new and used auto loans, credit cards and more. Rate watch provides some useful interest rates and indicators related to the interest rates.
Contingency Analysis -- Here you will find over 1,000 pages of information on financial risk management. Topics include: value at risk,derivative instruments, credit risk, riskglossary, and financial engineering.
ICPSR -- The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), located within the Institute for Social Research at theUniversity of Michigan, is a membership-based, not-for-profit organization serving member colleges and universities in the United States and abroad. ICPSR provides: (1) Access to the world's largest archive of computerized social science data. (2) Training facilities for the study of quantitative social analysis techniques. (3) Resources for social scientists using advanced computer technologies.
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) -- The NBER is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. Our research is conducted by more than 500 university professors around the country, the leading scholars in their fields. Data sources provide several important links to the economic indicators. On-Line Data is also a good source to find some goodies. Other Data Collections provides lots of links to the economic data, which are general resources and international data.
Eco5.com -- Large financial, economic, and political link collection
The Conference Board of Business Cycle Indicators -- The Conference Board provides the Leading Economic Indicators (LEI) news release--the official source of the U.S. leading index, plus general information about the economy and cyclical indicators--as a public service on this web site.
Resources for Economists on the Internet -- This guide is sponsored by the American Economic Association. It lists 1,589 resources in 97 sections and sub-sections available on the Internet of interest to academic and practicing economists, and those interested in economics. Almost all resources are also described. The Complete Table of Contents is for those who want a list of all resources in this guide. There is also an Abridged Table of Contents that just lists RFE's sections and sub-sections.
Vortex Volatility Chart Library -- The Library currently comprises a few hundred "classic", VaR-style Exponential Moving Average, and GARCH volatility histories and forecasts for major currencies, will expand to several thousand charts over the next few months.
Spatial Statistical Sites -- A wide array of sites contain interesting spatial statistical content.
Tax Foundation -- It is the website to check the tax rate for the individual state in the U.S.. The data are back to year 1971.
Financial Services Fact Book 2003 -- The fact book for all financial service institutions in 2003
Quantitative Techniques -- It is part of the NIST/SEMATECH e-Handbook of Statistical Methods. The goal of this handbook is to help scientists and engineers incorporate statistical methods in their work as efficiently as possible.
Project Interactivate -- The goals of Project Interactivate are the creation, collection, evaluation, and dissemination of interactive Java-based courseware for exploration in science and mathematics. This site is sponsored by Shodor Education Foundation, Inc., which goal is to advance science and math education through the use of computational science, modeling and technology.
Excel Tips : Functions, Formulas and Macros -- It provides excellent tips with using excel.
EndNote
Statistics and Math related information
American Statistical Association, Journal of statistics education
台灣經濟新報資料庫 (Taiwan Economic Journal (TEJ) Data Bank) -- download user manual
Independent directors / Independent supervisors Registry 獨立董事、獨立監察人 人才資料庫查詢系統 -- 本資料庫為 證券暨期貨市場發展基金會 提供
中央銀行 - 統計資料 -- 九十四年十一月版金融統計月報
Related Academic Knowledge, Senses, and Opinions
Game Theory -- Strategy and Conflict: An Introductory Sketch of Game Theory, from Dr. Roger A. McCain
Essential Principles of Economics -- prepared by Dr. Roger A. McCain
Free Books On-Line -- This is the collected links from Dr. Roger A. McCain's homepage. There are several sources of books on-line, such as Paradise Lost by John Milton, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, An Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Malthus, etc. It is a good link to visit.
Economists on the Web -- It is the site that provides a way to find the economists on the web.
Economics Books -- The on-line book store provides the books related in several fields of economics. It is in partnership with Amazon.Com which sell the books on-line in several different area. At Amazon.Com, Business & Investing is also one of the categories.
CU Time Series Repository --This server provides a "data set citation index": For example, you can see a demo that uses the Harvest Gatherer, an information access system, to find and display all papers known to this server that reference the laser data from the Santa Fe Time Series Prediction Competition.
Bos' Economic Forecast for 1997 -- Also check out an impresssive set of bookmarks pointing to countless data sources.
Financial Dictionary
Dictionary of Financial Risk Management -- providing the definitions of the terminologies in risk management
International Financial Encyclopaedia -- providing the definitions of the terminologies in risk management
Investorwords.com -- It provides comprehensive financial glossary.
The Language of Money -- It provides easy to understand definitions of financial terms
MSN Money Glossary -- It provides glossary in investment related terms.
Financial Pipeline -- It is an internet site dedicated to financial education and understanding. The creators and sponsors of this site believe that a higher level of knowledge is the key to financial success.
Economics Glossary -- It is part of the links of Economics at About.Com. Another one, The Economics Glossary, is the link of Biz/ed.
AmosWEB -- It is a website related to Economics. I love the functions of GLOSS*arama and WEB*pedia that are glossary of economic concepts and terms and encyclopedia of economic information respectively.
Scientific Resources (Statistics - Econometrics - Forecasting) -- It is a very good online sources for learning Descriptive Statistic, Continuous Statistical Distributions, Hypothesis Testing, Econometrics, and Time Series Analysis (Forecasting).
Risk Management -- They are the lecture notes of the Risk Management, FIN323 and FIN624, from Dr. Eric J. Higgins, Drexel University. They are the very good resources of risk management for the both entrance (FIN323) and advance (FIN624) readers. Those lecture notes are all downloadable in either PDF file or MS word formats.
-- It is an interactive financial website. Glossary of Finance is also available and searchable in this site. It is a good one.
eFinanceBooks.com -- It buys and sells college finance textbooks. Some of the CFA required textbooks are sold cheaper here.
Association for Investment Management and Research (AIMR) -- It is an international, nonprofit organization of more than 50,000 investment practitioners and educators in over 100 countries. AIMR was created from the merger of the Financial Analysts Federation (FAF) and the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts (ICFA). It is also the institution that holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) program.
Norman's Cafe -- Norman prepares excellent links and information in its Study Room. It provides the hints of preparing exam such as CFA Study Room. Especially, its CFA Related Resources provide perfect links, exams, and notes for preparing the CFA exam. It is a must see website if you are preparing for the CFA exam. If you need some aids in memorizing the AIMR Code of Ethics & Standards of Practice, clickhere and download the note, flash card, and powerpoint for the preparation.
CFA Exam Preparation Related Information -- This site provides some free stuff and related preparation information CFA three level exam.
Investment Company Institute -- The Investment Company Institute (ICI) is the national association of U.S. investment companies. You may find lots of information about mutual funds here.
Investor Solutions - The Strategic Advantage -- This site provides excellent information in vestment knowledge and strategy. From it learning center, it has online book, calculator, and investment library. In its investment library, it has very good learning source, such as investment theory, investor behavior, Morningstar series, and investment vehicles.
Greek Character Entities -- This site provide the pronunciations of those Greek character in your formulas. Mathematical, Symbolic, and Special characters is also worth visiting. Greek Characters and Symbols is also available for those characters.
APA Style Essentials -- This page is created by Douglas Degelman, Ph.D., and Martin Lorenzo Harris, Ph.D., Vanguard University of Southern California. The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed., 2001) provides a comprehensive reference guide to writing using APA style, organization, and content. The purpose of this document is to provide a common core of elements of APA style that all members of an academic department can adopt as minimal standards for any assignment that specifies APA style. For additional help with APA style guidelines, visit APA's online resource www.apastyle.org.
HyperStat Online -- An Introductory Statistics Textbook and Online Tutorial for Help in Statistics Courses. It also includes the free stuff to help students learn statistics.
Central bank websites -- It is the link provided by Bank for International Settlements (BIS), which is the central bank of central banks.
黃家小館 -- 此乃國立高雄大學 應用數學系及統計學研究所 黃文璋教授(Prof. Wen-Jang Huang)之個人網頁,網頁有許多由他編著與數學及統計相關之課程與學習輔助資料 R基本使用手冊, 微積分講義, 機率論, 數理統計, 數理統計, 隨機思考論,數學欣賞, 機率統計網路學習館, 提昇「大學基礎數學教育」網路資訊多媒體建構計畫, 梅仙尼質數, 圓周率π
公開資訊觀測站 -- 此有各公開上市公司之公開資訊揭露。
聯合理財網 (money.udn.com) -- 此網內含有最新海內外基金績效排行榜
個股技術分析圖-- 此網站提供免費台灣個股相關技術分析圖
國家圖書館 -- 台灣期刊論文索引系統為全國最完整的學術期刊資料庫，收錄超過4000種的期刊及學報
中華民國證券投資信託暨顧問商業同業公會 -- 中華民國證券投資信託暨顧問商業同業公會以促進經濟建設，協調同業關係，增進共同利益為宗旨。
Financial Supervisoy Commission , Executive Yuan (行政院金融監督管理委員會)
Bureau of Monetary Affairs, Financial Supervisory Commission, Executive Yuan (行政院金融監督管理委員會銀行局)
Securities and Futures Bureau, Financial Supervisory Commission, Executive Yuan (行政院金融監督管理委員會證券期貨局)
Insurance BureauFinancial, Supervisory Commission, Executive Yuan (行政院金融監督管理委員會保險局)
Examination Bureau, Financial Supervisory Commission, Executive Yuan (行政院金融監督管理委員會檢查局)