This webpage is designed to expose the independent investor to a number of websites that are useful in providing current news and solid investment information as well as a wealth of interactive tools for enhancing one's ability to make sound investment decisions.
CNNfn - The CNN network's financial website offers current news and financial advice through a variety of categories like Markets, Deals & Debuts, World Business, Retirement Planning, Consumer Strategies, TEchnology, Small Business, and Tools. One can also monitor a personal portfolio and link to the rest of CNN's website for sports, weather, etc.
The Motley Fool - This is an excellent site for investing as it offers currnet news and commentary, special features, discussion boards, stock research, stock strategies, and a "Fool's School" covering many important investing topics. One can even become a member and track a personal portfolio through this site.
SmartMoney.com - This is the Wall Street Journal Magazine of Personal Business online. It covers the major markets, breaking news, special features, and it has many tools for investors.
Justquotes.com - This site gathers in depth research for stocks and mutual funds. One can monitor the markets worldwide, one's own portfolio, or link to other useful sites.
Online Investment Services - This site is a comprehensive guide to discount stock brokers. It also contains useful reports on day trading, options trading, penny stocks, and other specific investing information.
Silicon Investor - This site has the latest news features, market insight, market tools, and a discussion board for hot investing subjects. One can monitor one's own portfolio, view broker rankings, and much more.
TechStockInvestor.com - This site has news, research, a message board, market information, and other useful information devoted to tech stocks. It has useful links and listings of top stocks.
Zacks.com - This site allows one to track a personal portfolio, examine mutual fund information, view model portfolios, earnings information, and much more investment research. Notable sites like Yahoo!, CNNfn, and WSJ online use Zack's data for market information, which is a testament to this site's value.
Red Herring Online - This site offers investor news, IPO News, Venture Capitalists & Startups info, industry information, company information, special reports, columns, and discussion boards. This site is focused on tech stock news.
Daily Stocks.com - This site is good for doing research on stocks and mutual funds. It has market numbers, market commentary, news headlines, a variety of calendars, earnings info, stock screens, IPO/Filings info, and much more.
Bloomberg.com - This site has useful information about the market including news, columns, stock information, IPO information, world indices, currencies, commodities, and much more. It also has a section on mutual funds, portfolio management, and retirement information.
IPO Maven - This site is dedicated to IPOs including filings, pricing, and a "Best of" list. It contains IPO news and other useful features.
CBS MarketWatch - This site contains useful news information, market data, discussion boards, columns, and other features. It has comparison charts, detailed market stats and an options pricer.
Dogs of the Dow - This site offers a free mailing list, stock recommendations, weekly performance tables, free research and a search engine gallery.
CMP's Tech Web - This site offers current tech stock news, coverage of the major indices, useful links, and other finance category tools like Profits and Losses, IPOs, Mergers & Acquisitions and much more.
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