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Business Resources
The Best of the Internet
Internet Resources selected by the New Hampshire State Library |
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General Resources - @Brint
- A helpful site covering business and technology, news and reference with links to sites.
- Better Business Bureau
- Web site of the Better Business Bureau providing information about businesses and charities, dispute resolution and advertising.
- BizLink
- A directory of business resources from the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenberg County that provides access to selected electronic and print business resources.
- Business.com
- A business search engine that is searchable by company name or ticker or industry.
- CEO Express
- A very helpful site of business related links arranged by subject categories covering news, investing, financial markets as well as travel and internet information.
- Department of Commerce
- Includes information from the U.S. Department of Commerce including links to the various department agencies.
- U.S. Business Advisor
- The one stop electronic link to government for business. Provides business with federal government information, services and transactions.
- U.S. Chamber of Commerce
- Locate a Chamber, get advice on managing your business and help with business tools form the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Directories - 555-1212
- A fee based telephone directory service.
- Any Who Directory Service
- A directory to search for people or business addresses and phone numbers, including a reverse lookup and business category search.
- Associations on the Net
- From the Internet Public Library, this site is a collection of sites of associations and organizations.
- MelissaDATA Lookup
- A lookup directory that covers everything from street names and ZIPs in a Radius to Nonprofit Organizations and Campaign Contributors in a Zip Code.
- SuperPages.com
- Search yellow pages, white pages, international directories and also search by "super topic."
- SWITCHBOARD
- Nationwide residential and business directory.
- Telephone Directories on the Web
- A very comprehensive site including both U.S. and international telephone directories of white pages, yellow pages and fax numbers. Choose multiple country directories or search by country.
- Thomas Register
- Directory of U.S. manufacturers, searchable by product or service (cannot limit geographically)
Company and Industry Information - Annual Reports Service
- The Public Register's Annual Report Service (PRARS) provides free copies of annual reports.
- Hoover's Online
- Contains a corporate directory with information on 10,000+ companies searchable by ticker symbol, name location, industry and sales.
Financial and Investment Information - BigCharts
- Provides access to interactive charts, quotes, reports and indicators on over 50,000 stocks, mutual funds and market indexes.
- Bonds Online
- Covering treasury, savings, municipal and corporate bonds.
- Investor Guide
- A helpful investing site containing links to investing information covering everything from stocks and bonds to mortgages and car buying.
- Investor Home
- A site containing a wealth of information and links to investing sites.
- investorguide.com DRIP Investing
- From Investorguide an alphabetical list of companies that offer Dividend Reinvestment Plans and Direct Purchase Plans with links to information on each company.
- MSN Money
- A very helpful investor site. Especially helpful in the historical chart option allowing for comparison stock information.
- OSU Virtual Finance Library
- From Ohio State University's Department of Finance site with links to sites covering news, banks, exchanges, quotes and more.
- SEC EDGAR Database
- Company financial information that has been electronically filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
- SEC Info
- A Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) database service.
- Silicon Investor
- Provides investment information including quotes, charts and financial news.
- Treasury Direct
- The U.S. Government site for information on U.S. Treasury Bills, Notes and Bonds including how to purchase.
- Yahoo Finance
- A helpful site for quotes, research recommendations, news and other financial information.
SEC EDGAR - Edgar-Online.com
- Search SEC filing by company name or symbol and links to research available for free and fee.
- SEC EDGAR Database
- Company financial information that has been electronically filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
- SEC Info
- A Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) database service.
Exchanges- American Stock Exchange
- Contains daily market summary information back to June 1995. Offers the ability to search for listed companies for stock quote and price data.
- NASDAQ
- Current quotes on stocks traded on NASDAQ National Market and Small Cap as well as NASDAQ indexes.
- New York Stock Exchange
- The New York Stock Exchange homepage which has links to listed companies as well as daily volume from 1879 and closings from 1966.
Stock Quotes - Daily Stocks
- A very comprehensive site for searching stocks and funds.
- free realtime.com
- Free realtime and delayed quotes. To access realtime an online registration form must be completed.
- PCQuote
- A delayed stock quote search engine.
Business and Financial News - bizjournals.com
- Archives for stories in over 39 business journals searchable by keyword or journal.
- Bloomberg News
- Covers national and international business news including daily digest of top news and feature stores from Bloomberg Business News.
- Business Wire
- A helpful site for up to date business headlines and news stories.
- CNN Financial News
- Top business news stories concerning companies, the economy and information on the financial markets.
- FINDarticles.com
- An archive of published articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 magazines and journals.
- Forbes Magazine
- An online version of the business publication including an archives.
- PR Newswire
- Full text news releases from public and private companies, government agencies, associations and other organizations.
International - Executive Planet
- Provides relevant information on international business culture, customs and protocol for U.S. top trading partner nations.
- Global EDGE Resource Desk
- From Michigan State University, this site has links to international business information topics from news and statistics to international trade shows as well as culture and travel information.
- Telephone Directories on the Web
- A very comprehensive site including both U.S. and international telephone directories of white pages, yellow pages and fax numbers. Choose multiple country directories or search by country.
Marketing and Demographics - Ad*Access
- Divided into five categories this site contains copies of product advertisements going back to the early 1900's.
- American Factfinder
- A data access and dissemination system to retrieve information from the Census Bureau's data sets including maps, tables and reports. Covers population, housing and community information.
- Census Bureau
- Statistical information compiled by the U.S. Bureau of Census.
- Census Bureau - Gazetteer
- The gazetteer identifies places to view with Tiger Map Server and obtain census data from 1990 Census Lookup Server.
- The Right Site
- Provides fee based demographic information access and products, but also has a free demographic report option that permits searching by different geographic breakdowns and demographic factors.
Small Businesss - Business Owner's Toolkit
- Helpful business tools covering categories of business finance, firing & termination, marketing, recruiting, worker safety and more.
- ENTERWeb
- ENTERWeb is an annotated meta-index and information clearinghouse on enterprise development, entrepreneurship, business, finance, international trade and the economy that focuses on micro, small and medium size enterprises.
- Entrepreneur.com
- A web site desigened for the entrepreneur and small business owner with how to gudes and exerpts from Entrepreneur magazine.
- New Hampshire Small Business Devlopment Center
- The New Hampshire Small Business Development Center's site provides information on the programs and services offered by the office with calendars of workshops, publications available and more.
- Small Business Administration Online
- Information from and about the Small Business Administration including resources by state and region. Also includes information on starting, financing and expanding a business.
- Small Business Development Centers
- The U.S Small Business Administration administers the Small Business Development Center Program to provide management assistance to current and prospective small business owners.
Rates - bankrate.com
- Timely rates for mortgages, consumer loans, savings accounts and credit cards.
- Monthly Interest Rate Data
- This site from the St. Louis Federal Reserve Board contains various interest rates, including historic data some going back as far as 1934 and the Prime Rate going back to 1929.
- Mortgage-X
- A helpful mortgage information site for home buyers featuring information on loans, interest rates, calculators and a directory of mortgage lenders.
Calculators - Relocation Salary Calculator
- Using data provided by the Center for Mobility Resources this calculator computes, by inputting city of origin and destination city, what equivalent salary will be needed at the new location.
Statistics - EconData.Net
- Sources of socioeconomic data for economic development analysis used to analyze local and regional economics.
- Fedstats
- With statistics from more than 70 U.S. government agencies, it is possible to keyword search or browse an alphabetical list of subjects.
- NAICS Code
- The North American Classification System replaces the U.S. SIC system for classifying industries.
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