Recommended Websites

 

These websites have been picked by our reference librarians to assist you in gathering information. This is not meant to be a complete directory of web resources, but a collection of useful resources.

Business-Investment & Personal Finance

BigCharts
Investment research website with useful features such as historical quotes, charts and news items for individual stocks, and lists of the best performing stocks by industry.

CBS Market Watch
Investment and personal finance website with stock information, historical quotes, news, and subscriptions to free e-newsletters.

Money Chimp
Financial education website.

Motley Fool
Popular investment and personal finance website with articles on investing and personal finance issues such as buying a house, IRAs, and credit reports.

Silicon Investor
Stock information website that includes investment discussions.

Yahoo! Finance
Popular investment and personal finance website with information on stocks, mutual funds, bonds, and other financial topics.  It also has a section on investor education.

Morningstar
Website for the popular mutual fund guide.

Savings Bonds
The Bureau of the Public Debt – U.S. Department of the Treasury website provides information about buying savings bonds and includes a savings bond calculator that allows the user to determine the redemption value of a savings bond.


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