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.
  
  
• 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.