Investing Links

A-MARK PRECIOUS METALS, INC.
Lots of information and data about gold and silver.

Annual Report Service
Offers hundreds of free annual reports for companies, exchange-traded funds and closed-end funds.

BigCharts
The site has excellent charts.

bizjournals
Business news from 41 metropolitan areas.

Bogle Financial Markets Research Center
John Bogle founded The Vanguard Group, the large mutual fund company. He has written many essays about the mutual fund industry. He is an vocal proponent of low-fee index funds.

Bureau of Economic Analysis
Economic data about the United States.

BuyandHold
You can buy and sell stocks, build a portfolio and reinvest dividends.

Efficient Frontier
William Bernstein, a physician and the author of The Four Pillars of Investing, maintains this site that promotes buying low-fee market indexes.

Elliott Wave International
Lots of information about interpreting charts and comments about the stock and commodities markets.

FOLIOfn
You can buy and sell stocks, build a portfolio or choose from numerous ready-made portfolios and reinvest dividends.

Fund Info Service
Offers free prospectuses and other information on hundreds of mutual funds.

Google Finance
The site includes Includes stock and business news, charts, quotes and historical prices.

Indexfunds.com
All about index funds.

Investment Directory
Information for investing, including stock trading, forex, mortgage and financial planning.

InvestorIdeas.com
Lists stock directories for many sectors including gold mining, cleantech, China and India.

MarketVector.com
The site has historical macro economic data and historical gold prices.

Morningstar.com
Rates mutual funds. A must site for mutual fund investors.

Motley Fool
The site includes lots of basic investing advice and tips for beginning investors.

PrecisionAlert™
Offers a free email notification service that announces specific events for companies, funds and industries.

Robert J. Shiller - Home Page
The author of Irrational Exuberance maintains an online database of stock market prices, price/earnings ratios and dividends. The data are very useful for constructing long-term charts.

SEC Mutual Fund Calculator
Use the calculator to compute the effect of fees on total return.

Smartmoney.com displays stocks of different industry sectors in very interesting maps.

StockCharts.com
The site has excellent charts and includes an historical gallery of long-term charts for the DJIA, S&P 500, Nasdaq, bonds and gold. The site includes the Market Carpet tool that lets you visually map the performance of the market and market sectors.

The Vanguard Group
Offers low-fee index funds.

Traders Nation
Financial talk radio.

United States Census Bureau
Population and economic data.

What You Need to Know About Mutual Funds
An excellent mutual fund site for beginning investors.

Yahoo Finance
The site includes Includes stock and business news, charts, quotes and historical prices.

Updated November 30, 2007.