BUSINESS AND EMPLOYMENT

Business SuperSites

• A Business Researcher's Interests
  Provides access to hundreds of full-text articles & papers, magazines & journals, case studies & tools.
  http://www.brint.com/interest.html
• Wall Street Research Net
  http://www.wsrn.com/index.html
• Business 2.0 Webguide
  http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/
• Business and Economy from Yahoo
  http://dir.yahoo.com/business_and_economy/index.html
• Access Business Online
  http://www.bizwiz.com
• Business Information Sources on the Internet by Sheila Webber
  http://personal.dis.strath.ac.uk/business/index.html
• MBA Page at Ohio State
  http://fisher.osu.edu/departments/fin/mba.htm
• Streeteye
  A directory and search engine of Internet resources relevant to investors and investment professionals.
  http://www.streeteye.com
• Best's Ratings Online
  A database of 6,000 companies and their Best's ratings and financial profiles. You have to register.
  http://www3.ambest.com/ratings/Advanced.asp
• National Information Center of Banking
  "A balance sheet for every bank that the Federal Reserve keeps an eye on."
  http://www.ffiec.gov

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• Annual Report Gallery
  http://www.annualreports.com/
• 10-K Reports from the EDGAR server at the SEC.
  http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/srch-edgar
• Hoover's Online
  http://www.hoovers.com/
• Public Register's Annual Report Service
  Free, ships paper copy of the Annual Report to the requester.
  http://www.prars.com/

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• Better Business Bureau
  http://www.bbb.org/
• Commerce Net
  http://www.commerce.net/
• Financial Scandals
  A site devoted to background resources on scandals new and old (Barings Bank, BCCI) as well as groups dedicated to routing out fraud and corruption around the globe.
  http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/scandals/
• Current Business Headlines (Yahoo)
  http://news.yahoo.com/h/bs/
• Minnesota Technology
  http://www.mntech.com
• Moody's
  http://www.moodys.com/
• Standard and Poor's
  http://www.spglobal.com/index.html
• Yahoo Finance
  http://finance.yahoo.com

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• Stock Quotes
• StockMaster
  Gives current statistics, as well as a 52 week chart and links to news items.
  http://www.stockmaster.com/
• Quote.com -look up a stock quote.
  http://www.quote.com/quotecom/
• Yahoo Quotes
  http://quote.yahoo.com
• Zack's Free Stockwatch
  http://my.zacks.com/
• Mutual Funds
  • Bloomberg Mutual Funds
    http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/mutualfunds/index.html
  • Morningstar Mutual Fund Reports
    http://www.morningstar.net/
  • Mutual Funds Interactive
    http://www.fundsinteractive.com/index.shtml
• Investor Information
  • Motley Fool (Opinion)
    http://www.fool.com/
  • S&P Index Information
    http://www.spglobal.com/index.html
  • Streeteye
    http://www.streeteye.com
  • Wall Street Research Net
    http://www.wsrn.com/index.html
• Stock Exchanges
  • New York Stock Exchange
    http://www.nyse.com
  • American Stock Exchange and NASDAQ
    http://www.amex.com/ or http://www.nasdaq.com/
  • Chicago Stock Exchange
    http://www.chx.com/
  • Chicago Board of Options Exchange
    http://www.cboe.com/
  • Chicago Mercantile Exchange
    http://www.cme.com/

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• Occupational Outlook Handbook
  http://www.bls.gov/oco/
• Dictionary of Occupational Titles (Just an index to the 1977 edition. DOT has been superseded by O*NET.)
  http://www.wave.net/upg/immigration/dot_index.html
• O*NET (replaces DOT). An interactive database of Occupational definitions.
  http://online.onetcenter.org/
• Minnesota WorkForce Center
  http://www.mnwfc.org/
• JobSmart: Salary Survey Info
  http://jobstar.org/tools/salary/index.htm
• AIER Cost-of-Living Calculator
  The American Institute for Economic Research has created this calculator using the Consumer Price Index to convert the cost of living from 1913 to today.

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• School of Industrial Labor Relations at Cornell University. Great site for full text of reports from both U.S. Government and international organizations. For Example:
  • Guarding America: Security Guards and U.S. Critical Infrastructure Protection Congressional Research Service (November, 2004 ).
  • Affirmative Action and Diversity in Public Education from the Congressional Research Service (2003).
  • The Glass Ceiling Commission
• Labor Links: compiled by the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library.
  http://www.leg.state.mn.us/lrl/links/labor.htm
• U.S. Department of Labor Links: compiled by the Winona State University Library.

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• IdeaList: nonprofit organizations
  http://www.contact.org/

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• Tax and Accounting Sites Directory
  http://www.taxsites.com/

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