CLIS529 Links From Textbook - Appendix A
Part 2 - General Information Resources

Business and Economics

Bloomberg Financial Glossary - Look up meanings for more than 6,000 financial terms and acronyms.

Bloomberg News - Latest information regarding business market news from the Bloomberg news service.

Business.com - A comprehensive subject tree and search engine to more than 400,000 listings for business-related web resources.

Canadian Financial Network - Descriptive links to more than 6,000 Canadian and international, mostly free financial resources, from accountants to stocks.

Companies Online - Directory of more than 100,000 U.S. public and private companies, including sales figures, web and street addresses, and number of employees.
This site has moved to Lycos Small Business Home Company Research.

The Economist - Articles from the weekly magazine The Economist.

Free EDGAR - Easy, basic access to the latest Securities and Exchange Commission corporate filings.

globalEDGE - A gateway to specialized global business knowledge on countries, cross-border business transactions, and cross-cultural management maintained by the Michigan State University Center for International Business Education and Research (MSU-CIBER).

Hoover's Online - Information database listing over 50,000 companies. Note that the number from your text book has increased from 9,000 to 50,000. The web sure is growing.

Individual.com - This commercial site is a free, customizable daily business online news service. Information from more than 50,000 public and private companies. This site has changed its name to Office.com.

Inflation Conversion Factors for Dollars 1666 - est. 2012 - Handy calculator to determine US prices in current or past dollars, adjusting for inflation.

International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Database of publications from the IMF.

InvestMove.com - Get basic and detailed financial information on companies based on their stock symbol. Includes links to other business resources, including for small businesses.

Report Gallery - Download the latest annual reports from more than 2,000 publicly traded American companies.

Scout Report for Business and Economics - Sites carefully chosen and reviewed by librarians and content specialists with the Internet Scout Project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Statistics Canada - Free government tabular data and analytical reports on Canada's economy and industrial sectors.

Strategis - Business information about Canadian industries.  Very helpful site if you are interested in Canadian business.

10K Wizard - Free full-text search of the latest US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings, including corporate annual reports, of nearly 70,000 companies.

US Census Bureau Economic Indicators - The latest economic indicators and other economic data from the US Census Bureau.

VIBES - Virtual International Business and Economic Sources - This site has links to free international business information including statistics, full-text files and graphs.

WebEc - Put together by the University of Helsinki, this site contains lists of academic economic resources located on the web.

World Bank (IBRD) - Web site of the United Nations World Bank.  Retrieve all kinds of information.