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Looking for help starting up a new business? Need the name of Hewlett Packard's chief executive officer? Want to invest in stocks but don't know where to start? Let Fort Vancouver Regional Library help you with these and many other business and investment related questions using a variety of print, electronic and community resources.
Library resources | Internet Sites | Search Strategies
Library Resources
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Materials listed here may be located at different branch libraries. Please check our online catalog for location and availability.
Bond Guide
Published by Standard & Poor's Corporation
R 332.6323 STANDARD (Quarterly)
Daily Graphs
Published by Daily Graphs Inc.
Weekly publication divided into two editions: 1) NASDAQ Stock Market 2) New York & American Stock Exchange. Providing information for over 10,000 companies, Daily Graphs charts one year of each stock covered.
R 332.6322 DAILY G (Weekly)
Stock Guide
Published by Standard & Poor's Corporation
R 332.6322 STOCK G (Monthly)
The Value Line Investment Survey
Published by Value Line Inc.
Founded in 1931, Valueline is one of the oldest and most established sources for stock information.
R 332.6305 VALUE L (Weekly)
Investment Periodicals and Newspapers Available at Fort Vancouver Regional Library
American Demographics
Asian Wall Street Journal
Barron's National Business and Financial Weekly
Bottom Line Personal
Business Journal (Portland, OR)
Business Week
Consensus
Economic Indicators
Economist
Far Eastern Economic Review
Forbes
Fortune
The Individual Investor
Investor's Business Daily
Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine
Mutual Funds Magazine
New York Times
Oregon Business
Smart Money
Taxes
Vancouver Business Journal
Wall Street Journal
Washington CEO
Worth Magazine
Other Library Resources
In addition to books, Fort Vancouver Regional Library provides access to several different databases that may be useful for company research. The following databases are available at each branch library as well as from home through the library's Research Databases (Your Fort Vancouver Regional Library card number is needed to access these resources from home.)
Infotrac Business & Company Resource Center: Provides up-to-date business information in these categories - company profiles, company brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals.
ReferenceUSA: Contains information on nearly 12,000,000 U.S. businesses, 1.3 million Canadian businesses and 102,000,000 U.S. residents.
Proquest: Magazine and newspaper database that includes local newspapers such as The Columbian and The Oregonian.
Morningstar.com Library Edition: Morningstar covers more than 20,000 securities. Provides access to analyst reports on stocks and funds as well as evaluation of investment portfolios.
Search Strategies
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If you wish to locate books on investing in a public library, you may want to try the following subject headings to search in the catalog or to browse the 332.6 section:
- Bonds
- Investment Analysis
- Investments
- Computer Network Resources
- Handbooks, Manuals, etc.
- Moral and Ethical Aspects
- United States
- Mutual Funds
- Securities
- Speculation
- Stock Price Forecasting
- Stocks
- United States
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Internet Sites
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Investment Information
- American Association of Individual Investors
- Lots of good information focusing on education, research and communications among members. Also provides links to stock and mutual fund searches. A very useful resource for individual investors.
- Investools
- Known for its investment newsletters, this website also provides company profiles, detailed historical stock charts and investment advisors.
- InvestorGuide
- A wonderful site full of all kinds of useful information and hot links. Offers links to a multitude of services such as quotes, EDGAR SEC filings, brokers, exchanges, venture capital, currency, as well as a Questions & Answers section, personal finance, stock analyses on selected companies and links to investment club websites all over the world.
- MoneyCentral
- MSN's MoneyCentral is rated as the top investment website by Barron's. (See “The Best 10 Websites for Investment” in Barron's October 23,2000)
- National Association of Investors Corporation (NAIC Online)
- Focuses on investment education for individuals and clubs.
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
- The Edgar database contains complete lists of company filings required by the SEC. Find quarterly and annual reports plus the very useful “management discussions” and “insider stock purchases and sales.”
- Yahoo!Finance
- Loaded with financial information. Sign up with “My Portfolio” to create your own profile.
- Stock Quotes
- American Stock Exchange
- BigCharts
- Provides stock charts from several days to a decade's worth of information. Also good for historical quotes.
- Nasdaq (Over-the-Counter)
- New York Stock Exchange
- Quote.com
- Contains access to a variety of charts (5 minute, 15 minute, daily and weekly), news, and a wide array of links to research resources.
- Socially Responsible Investing
- Social Investment Forum
- A national nonprofit organization promoting the concept, practice and growth of socially responsible investing. The site includes an introductory guide to Socially Responsible Investing, Financial Advisors Directory and news.
- Investment Glossary
- Investment Glossary from Baystreet.ca
- Investorwords
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