Warren Buffett meets Sherlock Holmes

Resources and Related Web Sites

Favorite Sites

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  • Conscious Investor
    This is the place to go for chauffeur-driven investing. First-class all the way. A complete data-base with almost 6,000 USA stocks and thousands of Australian and Canadian stocks.
  • Investment FAQ
    A collection of Frequently Asked Questions and answers about investments and personal finance, including stocks, bonds, options, discount brokers, information sources, retirement plans, life insurance, etc. Edited by Chris Lott, Investment FAQ is a comprehensive, unbiased introduction and reference to investing.
  • InvestorLinks
    Articles covering the current markets, mutual funds, economy, value investing, commodities markets, technical trading, plus links, to over 9,000 financial websites. Free portfolio tracker, emailed news alerts, financial daily newsletter, message boards, intra-day technical charting, quotes and indices.

Financial Sites

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  • CNN Money
    CNN and MONEY magazine combine business news, stock quotes and financial market coverage with personal finance advice, tools and investing tips.
  • Financial Data Finder-Ohio State University Finance Department
    The Financial Data Finder page lists resources for financial and economic data available on the Web and elsewhere.
  • Financial information - Loans, Investment, Debt, Bad credit, and Mortgages A one stop financial advice site. Here you will find a wealth of extremely useful advice and tips from financial experts themselves. You won't find such useful information all together anywhere else on the net.
  • Internal Revenue Service
    Download and print publications or tax forms and instructions. Get tax information, Internal Revenue Bulletin, or make a comment about proposed tax regulation.
  • IClub
    ICLUBcentral sells accounting, analysis, and administrative software products for individual investors and investment clubs in the United States and United Kingdom.
  • Investor's Edge
    A comprehensive website with everything from historical price data through to brief analyses of companies.
  • Hoover's IPO Central
    Find the recent IPO filings, news and analysis of featured IPO or search for an IPO company alphabetically or chronologically by filing date.
  • IPO INTELLIGENCE Online
    Provides IPO market intelligence, the IPO pick of the week, what's hot, what's not, IPO chat and much more.
  • Microsoft Investor
    An investment tool that lets you conveniently monitor  your stocks and mutual funds.
  • Motley Fool
    Provides some very basic strategies on investing. Lots of information.
  • MSNBC
    Up-to-the-minute news from around the globe. Create your own customizable front page that will bring together all the topics and only those topics that interest you personally.
  • NAIC
    National Association of Investors Corporation (NAIC) is a a not-for-profit, largely volunteer organization dedicated to investment education. It offers many unique products, services and professional support to help you become an informed investor.
  • NETWorth
    NETworth provides you with the knowledge to make your own investment decisions. Follow mutual funds or equities and access background information all in one convenient location.
  • PointCast Network
    PointCast Network is a free service with personalized national and international news, stock information, industry updates, weather from around the globe, sports scores and more. PCN content can be custom tailored.
  • PR Newswire
    A leading source of immediate news from corporations worldwide for media, business, the financial community, and individual investors. Also includes, Company News On-Call, which provides breaking stories as well as a one-year archive of press releases issued by each participating company.
  • Stock Smart
    Provides information on stocks sorted by industries, ranks the current performance of 5,549 Mutual Funds comparing the relative performance of each fund to both the S&P 500 and to funds of the same type, contains over 9,000 World Wide Stocks in 40 countries profiled, get market news, and set up your own personal portfolio manager.
  • U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
    Learn about the SEC, e-mail for investor assistance and complaints, get current SEC rulemaking, Enforcement Action, SEC Digest and Statements, or Small Business information. Helpful for avoiding securities fraud and abuse.
  • Your Personal Network
    Provides information on investing such as investment basics, economy watch, industries and companies, the markets, news & advice, and portfolio management. Also provides information on personal finance such as financial software, insurance, real estate, retirement, and your will.

Magazines/Newspapers

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  • BARRON'S Online
    For a limited time, register online and get free access to all parts of the BARRON'S Online site.
  • Business Week
    Find out what's happening in the business world, read the current issue of Business Week online including stories that appear only in Business Week's International editions.
  • Forbes Magazine
    Read the latest issue of Forbes online plus find old issues in its archives. Also, get the list of The 500 Largest Private Companies and The 200 Best Small Companies in America.
  • Fortune Magazine
    Get the latest issue of Fortune Magazine online plus find old issues in its archives. Also, special issues on the Fortune 500 list, Global 500 list, Pacific Rim Special, and Investor's Guide 1997.
  • Investor's Business Daily
    Investor's Business Daily is designed to provide both concise and comprehensive coverage of business, financial, economic, and national news.
  • Kiplinger Online
    Kiplinger is a provider of personal finance and business forecasting. It provides information in many formats: business letters, magazines, books, software, videotapes, audio tapes, television shows, syndicated newspaper columns and the Internet. Check out its news of the day, business forecasts, personal finance, stock quotes, top funds, retirement advice and a calculator that allow you to compute key financial decisions with ease.
  • Money Online
    Provides information on the markets, news, investing, savings and borrowing, retirement, home, colleges, and a whole lot more.
  • Money Talks
    The investment magazine for the individual investor interested in mutual funds, personal finance, the equities marketplace, the utilities and power industries, and the retail industry. Written by some of America's most respected financial writers, Money Talks is updated daily.
  • New York Times
    As a subscription-based service, the New York Times brings you the latest news online. Offering various news categories, the New York Times gives you the information you are looking for online.
  • Red Herring
    A magazine that provides business information for the technology and entertainment industries. Read the current issue of Red Herring online, get news and analysis, company profiles, and featuring the new Red Herring Direct, which delivers technology business news straight to your desktop via e-mail free!
  • USA Today
    USA TODAY Online has more than 70,000 pages of news, sports, business and technology news, five-day weather forecasts and travel information available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Provides Wall Street market summaries, global markets, mutual funds, economic reports, bank rates, latest IPOs, and much more.
  • Washington Post
    Current edition of the national, international, and business news online.


Exchanges/Fee-Based Sites

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  • American Stock Exchange (AMEX)
    Links to companies listed on the exchange. Offers market summaries and news on AMEX companies and on the exchange. Gives introduction to derivatives.
  • Chicago Board of Options Exchange (CBOE)
    Provides information on Chicago Board of Options Exchange.  Gives current and historical statistics on options.
  • Chicago Mercantile Exchange
    Daily settlement of all CME futures and options, estimated volume, and open interest.
  • NASDAQ
    Provides graph of the NASDAQ Composite Index and the NASDAQ 100 Index with index activities, most active, news and quotes.
  • The New York Stock Exchange
    Searchable company listings, daily market summary, catalog of NYSE publications, and more.
  • The Philadelphia Stock Exchange
    Get information about different products from Philadelphia Stock Exchange such as Currency Options, Equities, Equity Options, LEAPSŪ, and Sectors Index Options.
  • Bloomberg Personal
    Provides information on subjects covered by Bloomberg PERSONAL on TV. Provides information about world markets, news, financial analysis, sports, weather, lottery scoreboard and much more.
  • Dow Jones & Company
    Dow Jones serves the financial community through business newswires, Business Information Services, Barron's online, Smart Money, WSJ Interactive and much more.
  • Dun and Bradstreet
    Provides information on 11 million companies. Order business background reports for $20 each. Reports include: information on company history, management, special events, recent newsworthy items, and a business operations overview.
  • EDGAR Online
    Subscription-based service offers up-to-date SEC electronic corporate filings for corporate financial data and other resources. The source for today's up-to-the-minute SEC electronic corporate filings. Also available are SEC EDGAR documents going back to 1994.
  • Hoover's Online
    Provides company news and earnings, industry insights, quotes and charts in their Cyberstocks, the site for wired investor.
  • Internet Closed-End Fund Investor
    Provides a wide variety of information on closed-end mutual funds. Basics of investing in closed-end funds, daily overview reports, performance results, market sentiment indicators, profiles of domestic and international funds, and several indices.
  • The Pristine Day Trader
    Gives daily stock recommendations for active traders. Includes The Pristine SmallCap Review, Day Trader, Daily Hotline, and Education.
  • Quote.Com
    Provides current quotes on stocks, options, commodity futures, mutual funds, and bonds. Also offers business news, market analysis and commentary, balance sheet data, and company profiles.
  • Reuters Money Network
    Free market updates, news headlines, price history, customizable market snapshot, and newsletters. Purchase "Premium Reports" packed with useful company information for $4.95.
  • The Right Line Split Report
    Specialized investment newsletter with a primary emphasis on the position trading of stock splits.
  • Smart Money
    The Wall Street Journal Magazine of Personal Business.
  • Telescan's Wall Street City
    Offers a collection of investment information and tools available both free and fee-based.
  • Wall Street Journal Interactive
    Read the Wall Street Journal online and try the first two weeks free.
  • Zacks Investment Research
    Zacks is a full-service quantitative research firm, offering a suite of products designed to investors with the tools they need to optimize their equity decision-making process.   

Canadian Sites

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  • Canadian Stock Market Reporter Inc.
    Provides real-time and delayed stock quotes, charts, breaking news, archived news releases, company profiles, and market statistics.
  • Canadian Online Explorer
    A "supersite" with a compilation of sites providing information on news, sports, entertainment, and business. Access to leading newspapers and magazines.
  • The Fund Library
    A variety of information about Canadian mutual funds, including books, newsletters, and press releases. Daily mutual fund prices (NAVPS) and links to fund companies.
  • Gordon Pape's Building Wealth on the Net
    Information about the financial marketplace in Canada. Newsletters and books. Links to Mutual Fund companies.
  • Globe and Mail Report on Business
    Front page of the ROB, plus many of the main stories and columns.
  • Alberta Stock Exchange
    Link to Web sites of member firms and listed companies of the Alberta Stock Exchange.
  • Montreal Exchange
    General information about the exchange, including its history, member firms, listed companies, and press releases. Quotes on equities and indices.
  • Vancouver Stock Exchange
    Current information on each of the exchange's 1,500 listed companies, including contact details and trading background. Weekly market activity including trading totals, most active stocks, and largest gainers and losers.

Sherlock Holmes Sites

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  • The Sherlock Holmes Museum
    This is the web site of the museum situated at 221B Baker Street, London, the original home of Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr. Watson.
  • Sherlock Holmes Society of London
    Founded in 1951, the Society is open to anyone with an interest in Sherlock Holmes, Dr John H. Watson and their world. It is a literary and social Society, publishing a scholarly Journal and occasional papers, and holding meetings, dinners and excursions.
  • Sherlock: the Crime Omnibus
    Sherlock, The Crime Omnibus is a lively bi-monthly publication which delves into the world of Sherlock Holmes in its "Baker Street Bulletin section" as well as the entire crime genre. It covers crime in the areas of Film, TV, Theatre, Graphic Novels, Books, Video Games and Music.

Cartoon Sites

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