Financial Research
- Automobile Valuation
- Corporate Information
- Government
- Insurance Information
- Investment
- Political Contributions
Automobile Valuation
Edmonds
Edmunds car buying guide lists new car prices, used car prices, car comparisons, car ratings, car values, and auto leasing using True Market Value pricing, unbiased car reviews, ratings, and expert advice.
URL: http://www.edmunds.com/index.html
Kelley Blue Book
Kelley Blue Book has become the constant and consistent tool used by consumers and car dealers to find the latest returns on new and used cars. Now find cars by price range, miles per gallon and special features.
URL: http://www.kbb.com/
Corporate Information
The Securities and Exchange Commission's EDGAR database provides corporate information of companies required to file forms with the Commission. For example, Noram's annual 10-K report is available through EDGAR. Search for a business using BigBook, the yellow pages of business information. BigBook allows researchers to search a company and uncover such as net income, board of directors' names, and officers' names.
10K Wizard
[From the site} 10K Wizard is a leader in the business information industry, specializing in services for searching, alerting, extracting, packaging and distributing public company information contained within SEC EDGAR filings. Based in Dallas, Texas, with offices in Dallas and New York City, the company sells subscription products, data feeds and API services to financial institutions, corporations, law firms and Internet portals.
URL: http://www.10kwizard.com/
Fortune 500 Annual Reports
From CNN's Money.com, FORTUNE magazine online offers business and financial news delivered throughout the day, along with investing, financial, CEO, technology, and company information. Watch for trends, find FORTUNE lists, and read brief profiles of the 500 leading companies in the US and the throughout the world.
URL: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/
Bloomberg
Bloomberg.com is among the top five most visited financial sites on the Internet. It is one of the premier news and financial information sites available to the public.
URL: http://www.bloomberg.com/
Business Finder
Powered by Superpages.com, the Big Book Business Finder contains a powerful search engine to find businesses through the online Yellow Pages.
URL: http://www.bigbook.com/
Directory of Associations
Highly intuitive navigation highlights the Directory of Associations (ASAE and The Center for Association Leadership) where association professionals can research and integrate any association participating on the internet. Includes a calendar of classes, meetings, events and summits.
URL: http://www.asaenet.org/
EDGAR
Because companies, foreign and domestic, are required to file registration statements, periodic reports, and other forms electronically through EDGAR, this information can be accessed and downloaded for free. Access publicly traded corporations' SEC filings including 10-K, 10-Q, and 8-K reports.
URL: http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml
Free EDGAR
FreeEdgar online's search function returns corporate information regarding SEC filings, databasing over 15 million documents by ticker, company name, form type or keyword..
URL: http://www.freeedgar.com/
Hoover's Corporate Information
Hoover's online offers company information with detailed business reports and industry profiles. Companies, Industry, People and Expert Advice are the main topics that analysts cover , with links to online stock information, initial public offerings and quarterly earnings.
URL: http://www.hoovers.com/
National Credit Union Association (NCUA)
The National Credit Union Association oversees and insures the credit union industry. Offers news, reference libraries, statistics, and downloadable data and software.
URL: http://www.ncua.gov/
Points.com
With Points.com, manage all points accounts in one place. Track points and trades, exchange points, miles or other currencies between airline or other loyalty programs.
URL: http://www.points.com/
Texas Secretary of State Corporation Search
The Taxable Entity Search for State Corporation provides efficient access to the Franchise Tax Certificate of Account Status information in Texas. The Comptroller's Office is Texas tax collector, revenue estimator, economic forecaster, and treasurer.
URL: http://ecpa.cpa.state.tx.us/coa/Index.html
Secretary of State Links for all Fifty States
Courtesy of the Wyoming Secretary of State's office, the Secretary of State Links features a directory of links to the sites of the Secretary of State office in all fifty states.
URL: http://soswy.state.wy.us/sos/sos2.htm
Government (new)
Due to the latest government inactions that have caused banks, lending institutions and various financial monoliths to fall, our offices are adding a Government section to the Financial Research collection. Please contact us if you have any suggestions for government financial online resources.
Recovery.gov
Recovery.gov is a new government website designed to let anyone in the world track where the money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is going.
URL: http://www.recovery.gov/
Insurance Information
Access the A. M. Best Companies' rating system. In addition, the Insurance News Network provides consumer information about insurance companies including company ratings from Standard & Poor's.
AccuQuote
By combining instant term life insurance quotes with unbiased service to identify important issues and make recommendations, AccuQuote makes it possible to find the best values in term life insurance. Compare the price, features, and financial strength of hundreds of life insurance products.
URL: http://www.accuquote.com/
The A. M. Best Company
[From the site:] A.M. Best Company is the leading provider of ratings, news and financial data for the insurance industry worldwide and Best's Ratings are recognized as the benchmark for assessing the financial strength of insurance related organizations and the credit quality of their obligations.
URL: http://www3.ambest.com/ratings/default.asp
Insure.com
Insure.com provides consumer information about auto, home, disability and life insurance. Includes information on index annuities as well as interactive tools such as the Car Crash Tool, which help users determine the current crash safety ratings of most vehicles.
URL: http://www.insure.com/
QuickQuote
Quickquote is an internet based insurance comparison and purchasing system. Find tools and resources to help estimate and address your insurance needs. Covers life, health, dental and vision, auto, mortgage, and final expense insurance.
URL: http://quickquote.com/
Term4Sale
Find the most unbiased term life insurance comparisons at Term4Sale. Term4Sale does not sell term insurance so searches will always return objective, thorough results. Term4Sale is a free public site operated by COMPULIFE Software, Inc. which sells term life insurance comparison software to thousands of life agents throughout the U.S. and Canada.
URL: http://www.termcomparisons.cc/
Investment
Receive investment information from Reuters' home page, or determine the exchange rate for an upcoming business trip or vacation.
bitpipe
Search or browse bitpipe.com to locate in-depth technical and market research articles, reports and white papers from leading analyst groups, consulting firms, educational institutions, publishers, and technology vendors.
URL: http://www.bitpipe.com/data/rlist?t=busofit_30_80_10
MSN Money - Stocks Research
Find current quotes, charts, or news, use the online research tools, learn about companies and so much more with MSN Money's Stocks Research. Provides in-depth information on stocks, including quotes, charts, news, company reports, SEC Filings, analyst ratings, financial results, insider trading and more. Use the Research Wizard to research any stock.
URL: http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/research/welcome.asp
Invest Quest
InvestQuest® provides a suite of services to help convey information to the financial community quickly and economically from a user base. Designed to reduce workload for the investment specialist, the services simplify and streamline any investment organization.
URL: http://www.investquest.com/
NASDAQ
Tremendously powerful, the Official site of The NASDAQ is the premier spot for free stock quotes, stock exchange prices, stock market news, and online stock trading tools.
URL: http://www.nasdaq.com/
Reuters
Bringing you the latest news from around the world, Reuters.com covers breaking news in business, politics, entertainment, technology, and more in video and pictures. Investment aid, stock, bond, ETF and mutual fund quotes.
URL: http://www.reuters.com/
Stock Wiz
Free stock market quotes from Stock Wiz. offers software tools and data for the analysis of historical end-of-day stock market prices for the US stock market. Includes news, data and StockWiz Formulas.
URL: http://www.stockwiz.com/
Political Contributions
CQ Moneyline - Political Contributors
Simple navigation and an intuitive interface are the features of CQ Moneyline, an online contribution website that allows users to search for contributions made by individuals, companies, and even political candidates. Find news, donor facts and quick references to the most important issues of the day.
URL: http://moneyline.cq.com/pml/home.do
OpenSecrets.org
OpenSecrets.org is a non-partisan resource for political news and money's influence on elections and public policy. Find out the actual political positions of the parties and candidates, as well as how much campaign money they have raised and where it came from. After checking up on candidates and government, use My Open Secrets to customize returns on watchdog action.
URL: http://www.opensecrets.org/
