Chapter
1 Margin Notes
- Visit
http://www.fortune.com
for updates on the U.S. ranking. Fortune also ranks the Global Most
Admired.
- Consult
http://www.careers-in-finance.com
for an excellent site containing information on a variety of business career
areas, listings of current jobs, and other reference materials.
- The
Security Industry Association's Web site, http://www.sia.com,
is a great source of information. To find data on stock ownership, go to their
Web page, click on Research/Statistical/Surveys, click on Securities Industry
Fact Book, and look at the section on Investor Participation. You can purchase
the most recent data, or look at the prior year for free.
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You can access current and historical interest rates and economic data as
well as regional economic data for the states of Arkansas, 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 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.
- See http://www.bloomberg.com
and select MARKETS and then U.S. Treasuries for a partial listing of indexed
Treasury bonds and their interest rates. See http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov
for a complete listing of all indexed treasuries.
- To see current
estimates of DRP, go to http://www.bondsonline.com;
under the section on Corporate Bonds, select Industrial Spreads.
- You can find
current U.S. Treasury yield curve graphs and global and domestic interst rate
information at Bloomberg markets' site at http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/rates/index.html.
- Euromoney
magazine publishes ranking, based on country risk. Students can access the
home page of Euromoney magazine at 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 only to paying subscribers). Yahoo
also provides country risk evalulations at http://biz.yahoo.com/ifc/.
- The home page
of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System can be found at http://www.federalreserve.gov.
You can access general information about the Federal Reserve, including press
releases, speeches, and monetary policy.
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