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Interesting Links
Chapter 5
To take a look at the online ventures of Charles Schwab and Merrill Lynch, check out their websites at http://www.schwab.com and http://www.today.askmerrill.com.mlol. You can test the Scwab customer experience or take a tour of Merrill Lynch Online.
Students can access current and historical interest rates and economic data as well as regional economic data for the states of Arkansa, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee from the Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) site at http://www.stls.frb.org/fred/.
You can access the home pages of the major U.S. stock markets by typing http://www.nyse.com or http://www.nasdaq.com. These sites provide background information as well as the opportunity to obtain individual stock quotes.
Students can find current U.S. Treasury yield curve graphs and other global and domestic interest rate information at Bloomberg markets’ site at http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/index.html.
Students can access the home page of Euromoney magazine by typing http://www.euromoney.com. Although the site requires users to register, the site is free to use (although some data sets and articles are available to subscribers).
The home page for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System can be found at http://www.bog.frb.fed.us/. You can access general information about the Federal Reserve, including press releases, speeches, and monetary policy.
Wilshire Associates provides a download site for various returns series for indexes such as the Wilshire 5000 and the Wilshire 4500 at http://www.wilshire.com/indexes/wilshire_indexes.htm in Microsoft Excelä format.
An excellent retirement calculator is available at http://www.sovereignbank.com/calculate/java_ret.html. This calculator allows you to input hypothetical retirement savings information, and it graphically shows if current retirement savings will be sufficient to meet retirement needs.
TECHNOLOGY MATTERS
IF you are looking for a good Internet source for personal financial planning, here are a couple of places you can go to get started:
http://www.financialengines.com
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