Company Information and News

Bloomberg News Service
An excellent resource for financial experts and novices alike, Bloomberg Personal offers easy access to breaking business news, market activity reports worldwide, and profiles of industry movers.

Business and Industry News
This excellent site from the library at Louisiana State University provides links to many sources for economic and corporate reports (domestic and international).

CNN Financial Network
The CNNfn.com home page always reports the Dow Jones industrial average, the NASDAQ composite and the 30-year Treasury bond in the upper right corner, updated every three minutes. Other features include hot stories, expanded market coverage, technology news and personal finance information.

Daily Stocks
This full-featured stock site includes market commentary, news headlines, earnings, tech stocks, IPO filings and much more.  Users can enter a company name or ticker to get reams of company information.

Hoover's Online
Hoover's Online provides access to a variety of company information including a searchable database of over 2800 firm web sites, company capsules for over 10,000 corporations, company profiles (fee-based), and IPO Central. You can access some of Hoover's company profiles via the Time Warner Pathfinder Site. Includes current SEC filings.

Market Guide
The Market Guide Investment Center provides timely and accurate company reports, quotes, news, price charts, stock screening tools, and industry, sector and company rankings on over 9,800 equities trading on the NYSE, Nasdaq, AMEX, and OTC Bulletin Board. Many features are free and some require a fee.

Microsoft Network's Investor Resources
Although some of this site is subscription-based, you can access many resources free including stock quotes (historical information), company profiles and news.

Quotes and News
Daily business headlines and summaries from Reuters news service, plus links to related stories from the previous seven days' news.

PR Newswire
Up-to-date news releases from hundreds of public companies from PR Newswire.

Standard & Poor Index Information
Access information about stock indexes maintained by Standard & Poors. Includes current statistics, total return figures, and news as well as alphabetical and grouped by industry lists of the companies included in the various indexes. (S&P 500, Midcap 400, Smallcap 600, etc.)

Stockprofiles.com
Access a variety of information on publicly held companies including snapshot profiles, annual reports, stock quotes and more.

Technology News
Access an online service entirely devoted to technology news.

The Web 100
The Web100 lists the largest U.S. and international corporations on the Web today, along with hyperlinks to their sites. It also gives you informative insight into the rapidly changing world of business on the Web.
 

Tip: You can often guess the address for a company home page. The standard format is usually http://www.nameofcompany.com. For example if you are trying to find IBM's home page, try http://www.ibm.com .

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