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Investment Sites

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Investing Basics and Directories 

American Association of Individual Investors was formed to help investors manage their assets effectively. Offers almost encyclopedic coverage of everything you need to know to begin investing.
Tom and David Gardner, brothers who developed Motley Fool sites, present 13 steps to investing foolishly.
Investment FAQ Tours are available for beginners, intermediates, and experts. Or you can use the Table of Contents to get information on your subject.
ThinkQuest Library : Choose the money link. Offers InvestSmart and EduStock with company profiles, tutorials, and stock simulations.
Financial Facts Tool Kit was produced by the Securities and Exchange Commission to better inform consumers about saving and investing.
Forbes Best of the Web is a list of website reviews on topics from Asset Allocation to Venture Investing.

Investing
News

Barron's Online now includes full weekly listings for stocks traded on the New York and American Stock Exchanges and the Nasdaq National Market.
Forbes offers articles, investment newsletters, special reports and more.
Yahoo Finance has the latest market news and links to Motley Fool and other sites.
Hoover’s online has a mix of free and fee financial information. Good source for company websites, business news and features.
Kiplinger's provides a lot of free content online including daily business news, stock quotes, funds data, etc.
CNN Financial Network has the latest news and a link to the Lipper Mutual Fund Report. Also has Money Magazine online.
CBS Marketwatch is one of the best all-inclusive sites with what happened on Wall Street just minutes ago.
CNBC is another all-inclusive site with investing news and views.
Bloomberg’s free site offers major stock indices and U.S. and foreign investment rates. Not for beginners.
Corporate Watch looks into the backdoor company policies, practices, and politics.
SocialFunds offers detailed charts to see how over 70 SRI funds stack up against each other.
Calvert Group Individual Investors offers the Calvert Social Index if you are concerned about "socially responsible investing."
For a fee you can subscribe to these online news sources: Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition; The Street covers big stories and market trends.
Asset-Analysis offers a portfolio management and financial tutor. Also offers a forum to discuss various issues.
Risk Grades: Input your portfolio for grading and analyze the results against a host of benchmarks. One of Forbes best sites.
Invester Guide is another Forbes best of the Web sites. Has general information, stats, and more.

Investing Mutual Funds

Morningstar’s free service will help you learn, plan, research, invest, monitor, and socialize.
The Vanguard Group offers a crash course in Mutual Funds 101. Has primers on choosing a fund and building a portfolio.
Fund Advice has solid research on no and low-cost funds plus model portfolios based on risk.
Closed End Fund Center from the Closed-End Fund Association (CEFA). A not-for-profit association, CEFA is committed to educating investors about the many benefits of these unique investment products and to providing a resource for information about its members and their offerings. 

Investing Bonds

Bonds Online is one of the most comprehensive sites on the web devoted to fixed-income securities. A glossary explains terms.
Smartmoney Interactive magazine has the best collection of interactive calculators around. Shows how to build a bond ladder.
Bureau of the Public Debt allows you to purchase treasury or savings bonds directly.
ICAP is a source for global market information.
Investinginbonds offers the beginner a glossary and guide to bond basics to find out about yield and risk factors.

Investing Stock Market

Securities and Exchange Commission site with access to EDGAR. Take a look at the Investor Assistance & Complaints file.
Silicon Investor gives you the lowdown on high-tech stocks. Get expert analysis from the message boards.
InvestmentWizard tracks which stocks and sectors research analysts are currently recommending, along with forecasts for the stock and bond markets, interest rates and the economy.
National Association of Investors Corporation has one of the best collections of articles on researching stocks. Join an e-mail discussion or find a club near you.
Dogs of the Dow theory. Buy the 10 stocks with the highest dividend yields, then hold them for one year. You’ll find primers here and current dogs.
Daily Stocks is the place to start doing research on a company. Type in stock ticker symbol and get hundreds of relevant links.
BigCharts tool lets you type in a stock or mutual fund symbol and the desired date (back to January 2, 1970), and Big Charts provides the closing price. Free service.
Stocks America is a commercial site but it has a market overview, yearly highs and lows, and a daily market anaylysis. Great source for investing information.

Investing Real Estate

NAREIT from the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, Inc. provides good basic information on REITs, how to invest in a REIT, how to find a suitable REIT, diversification benefits, etc.

Investing Foreign Markets

Financial Times helps you keep abreast of day-to-day turns in world affairs. End of day quotes for 3,000 UK stocks, financial data for 8,500 companies worldwide and more.
Asian Business Watch is the best source for finding promising investments in the Far East.
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