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Business and Financial Links
- All Business Network - "The Net's
Most Complete Authority on Business"
- AllPages.com - US Business Directory /
Yellow Pages
- AMEX - American Stock Exchange
- B2B Yellowpages.com - Business to
Business (B2B) search engine and yellow pages. Allows buyers and sellers to easily
search, locate or advertise companies for their product and service needs.
- Bank
of America's Market and Research Center
- Better Business Bureau of Western Michigan
- BigCharts - A "comprehensive and
easy-to-use interactive online charting service giving free and unlimited access
to charts, reports, indicators, and quotes on 47,000 stocks, mutual funds, and major
market indices."
- Brokers Online:
- A-1 Financial - Online trading of stocks,
options, bonds and mutual funds.
- Ameritrade, Inc.
- Charles Schwab & Co, Inc.
- Datek Online
- DLJdirect Discount Broker - Online trading,
free realtime quotes, mutual funds, S&P news, Zack's earnings estimates and more.
- E*Trade
- Fidelity Investments
- Morgan Stanley Dean Witter - "A global
financial services firm and a market leader in securities, asset management, and
credit services."
- Morningstar: Stocks and Mutual Funds Investing
Made Simple - Helps investors with every stage of the investment process. Use
daily news, quotes, financial market commentary, analysis, stock and mutual fund
data, investment tools and ideas, and portfolio tracking for better investment decisions.
- Mr. Stock: The Options Expert - "Online
broker that specializes in options trading"
- Netstock Direct Inc. - Direct common
stock purchasing and investment site.
- Quicken.com
- TD Waterhouse
- CBS.MarketWatch.com - Your Eye on the
Market.
- Chicago Board of Trade - The World's Largest
Futures and Options Exchange
- CNNfn - Financial News Network
- Commodity Futures Trading Commission - Regulatory
Agency for Furtures Trading
- CompaniesOnline - Information on
over 100,000 private and public companies.
- Corporate Information - Learn
more about any company, public or private, located anywhere in the world. Extensive
links to sites offering corporate information in over 80 countries.
- Credit Cards:
- Credit Report Related
- General:
- Annual Credit Report.com
- You are entitled by federal law to one free credit report per year. "This
site allows you to request a free credit report once every 12 months from each of
the nationwide consumer credit reporting companies: Equifax, Experian and TransUnion."
- myFICO - FICO Credit Scores, Online Credit
Reports and Identity Theft Protection. Find out your FICO score and learn how to
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- Credit Reporting Agencies
- Equifax (800-685-1111) - "Provides
consumers access to their personal credit information, including their credit report,
FICO credit score, and protects them with early warning of identity theft by email
notification within 24 hours of changes posted to their credit file. Equifax also
provides information solutions to the financial services, retail, credit card, transportation,
telecommunications/utilities, IT, and healthcare industries and government."
- Experian (888-397-3742) - "Uses the
power of information to help their clients target customers, manage relationships,
identify opportunities for growth, and conduct secure and profitable e-business."
- Trans Union (800-888-4213) - "A
leading provider of information and services. They serve both consumers and the business
world, providing accurate credit and fraud-prevention data and information-based
solutions."
- Currency Converters:
- Dialog Corporation - The world's largest
online information company with databases 50 times the size of the WWW. Business
news and information from many sources, including Dun & Bradstreet, Standard
& Poor's. amd Moody's.
- DMA Consumer Assistance - Provides
information and tips about shopping and your rights as a consumer. They take a proactive
stance in response to consumer problems.The Direct Marketing Association (The DMA)
is a trade association of businesses who advertise their products and services directly
to consumers by mail, telephone, magazine, Internet, radio or television.
- Email Preference Service
- Used to remove you name from member companies who wish to send unsolicited commerical
e-mail. Sign up with them (free) and reduce your junk email.
- DotCom Directory - Find information on any
compnay with a dot com ".com" Web address.
- Dow Jones University - online education center:
learn critical investing principles from
Dow Jones instructors with years of experience covering the financial markets.
- Dun & Bradstreet - Insight
for an evolving marketplace.
- eBay Auction Classifieds
- Exchange Rates and Currency Conversion
- F.D.I.C. - Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
- Federal Reserve Banks
- Financial Links (at
TCC)
- Financial Newsletter Network
- "Information on the financial newsletter industry. There are thousands of
financial newsletters currently published. The newsletters included in this network
are the cream of the crop."
- First Chicago NBD Investment Services, Inc. (FCNIS)
Online Brokerage - offers the tools you need to manage your investments, as well
as free real-time quotes, free news, free access to review your portfolio and online
trading of stocks, bonds, options & over 5,000 mutual funds.
- Fortune 500 - America's 500
largest companies.
- Gary Price's List of Lists -
A database of ranked listings of companies, people and resources freely available
on the Internet.
- Hoover's Online - The Business Network
- "A company information page links to approximately 14,000 companies for which
Hoover's Online provides FREE information, including a corporate description, financial
information, key officers, competitors and more."
- Inc. 500 - Inc. magazine's annual list
of America's fastest-growing private companies.
- Income Tax related sites
- Federal Income Tax related sites
- Michigan Income Tax related sites
- Intuit Inc. - Quicken, Quickbooks, MacInTax,
TurboTax, and more. See also: Quicken.com.
- Intuit’s Year 2000
(Y2K) Compliant/Ready Standard Page
- IAtlas Infolens - "Delivering the most
focused business information on the Web". A search engine for businesses, and
more.
- Investing Resources:
- Day Trading Resource - "Information
for active stock traders; online tutorials, daytrading publications, message boards,
and a chat forum for investors."
- Fortune.com
- InvestorWeb - For the thinking
investor.
- Money.com - "Your Financial Strategy
Center. News and information on markets, investing, real estate, insurance, autos,
retirement and taxes. Tools to help you define and meet your goals."
- MSN Investor - "Track your investments,
get new investment ideas, and do the research to make smart investment decisions."
- Onlinetradinginc.com
- SmartMoney.com - "Daily stock and
mutual fund recommendations, hourly market updates, personal finance investing research
tools and advice, and up-to-the-minute stock and mutual fund quotes and charts."
- Value Line Publishing, Inc. - "Provides
investment research on stocks, mutual funds, options and convertibles, and offers
a family of no-load mutual funds."
- ZDII Inter@ctive Investor
- Jobs / Employment:
- +Jobs - "A user-friendly, Internet job search engine determined to
make the best connection between employers and potential employees."
- AmericanJobs.com - Emploryment Services
- Free, searchable database of Hi-Tech Computer and Engineering jobs with Fortune
500 Companies and America's leading Corporations. Post resumes free.
- America's Job Bank
- CampusCareerCenter.com -- "The
World's Largest Campus Job Fair — Helps employers simplify the recruitment process
while offering university students direct access to career opportunities at leading
global companies."
- Campus Program: University and College Resources
- "Helps you to decide what to study and find a job. Ideal for high school,
university and college students, and professionals seeking employment."
- Career Network Inc.
- Provides assistance in getting the state or federal civil service jobs.
- CareerBuilder
- Careerjet - An employment search engine
for the United States. It allows you to search a large (and growing) selection of
job Web sites at once.
- CareerPath.com -Searchable database
of jobs from major US newspaper
- classifieds and employers. Also offers career info, resume posting, and recruitment
and employment services.
- CareerShop.com - Jobs, Careers, Resumes,
and Employment Opportunities. Free job searches and resume posting to all job seekers.
Job Fairs with employment opportunities in over 40 cities.
- ComputerJobs.com - "The Employment
Web Site for Technology Professionals"
- ComputerWork.com - "Computer Jobs
& Technical Employment in the US & Canada – Submit your resume to our computer
professional career job center for IT/IS computer programming professionals, including
Programmers, DBA
- s, Analysts, Network & matching skills to the best jobs nationwide."
- Dice.com - "Job search engine with thousands
of computer programming and highly technical employment opportunities in contract
and full-time positions."
- Education America Network - education
jobs, teaching jobs, teaching
positions, jobs
- Employment911.com - Search over 3,000,000
jobs on 35+ sites, all in one easy search.
- EmploymentSpot.com - "Information
portal for job seekers and human resource professionals."
- Find A Job Online
- A great collection of sites you can search in order to find a job. Many of these
sites offer help with resumes, interviews, searching for
the job you want.
- FlipDog.com - Free job search find employment
careers, free postings, resume builder, Flipdog.com searches for you.
- Headhunter.net -- "FREE Job Searching
and Resume Posting. One of the largest Internet sources of employment information
for job seekers, employers and recruiters, with 140,000+ current job listings and
over 340,000+ fresh resumes."
- HotJobs.com - "The Experienced Professional's
Job Board. Top jobs in companies around the world. No Headhunters will see your resume."
- Interim Services, Inc. - Provides consulting
and staffing solutions in human resources, search, outplacement, career counseling;
as well as technology, legal, accounting, clerical, administrative and light industrial.
- ISHunter.com - Provides a easy-to-use,
nationwide job search engine for computer programmers, engineers, systems analysts,
Web developers, network administrators, and other high tech and IS/IT professionals.
Over 16,000 computer jobs are currently listed (March 2001).
- JobDirect - Specifically designed to
help college students and recent graduates find internships, part-time jobs, and
"real jobs".
- JobEngine - Matchmakers for computer
industry professionals
- Jobnet.com - Your online job connection
- JobOptions - Job Database, Private Resume
Builder and Recruitment Resource.
- JobsOnline.com
- Jobs.com - Find a job, write your resume,
negotiate your salary. Job opportunities and qualified job seekers matched up.
- Manpower - "Submit your resume, Manpower
news, Manpower Investment, Global Learning Center, Job and local office search."
- Michigan:
- Michigan Career Portal - Find work,
explore careers, get training and education. Find employees. And much more. From
the Michigan Dept. of Career Development.
- Michigan Job Shop - "Michigan's
complete online career and relocation information center."
- Michigan Talent
Bank - Serves employers and job seekersin Michigan to ensure that employers have
the skilled workers they need and workers have good jobs that provide economic self-sufficiency.
- Northwest Michigan Works! - "Provides
employment, employer-related, education and training services to businesses and individuals.
It is a partnership of several northwest lower Michigan non-profit, governmental
and educational agencies, and accesses a multitude of publicly-funded programs."
- Monster.com - Job Search, Career Advice,
Post a Job, Store Your Resumé, and more.
- MyJobSearch.com - "Free job-hunting
supersite. Catalogs all online resources."
- Nokri.com - Jobs in all industries and job
functions. Intelligent Job Search Engine. Career Services offered include Resume
Distribution, Resume Writing Services, Employer / Recruiter Finder, and Web Resumes.
- Techies.com - "A career source providing
job opportunities for Information Technologist. Find career management, training
resources, job fairs, and tips." All free and confidential.
- Wanted Jobs - Job meta-search
tool, that queries many job sites and gives access to over 2.5 million jobs throughout
North America. Free resume sending.
- WantToTeach.com - Teaching and administrative
positions from over (at present) 575 districts.
- Workinpr.com - "Designed to offer
the global public relations industry a cost-effective customized jobsite, in addition
to providing PR professionals with strategic, credible resources and information."
- LendingTree - "Online loan center
that quickly connects you to a network of lenders who compete for your business.
Find a mortgage, home equity loan, credit card, personal loan, auto loan or debt
consolidation loan now."
- Manufacturing Marketplace - offers
industry information, including news, magazine articles, associations, tradeshows,
stock tracker, user surveys, jobs, Manufacturing Yellow Pages directory, products,
and industry communities to engineering, design, purchasing, logistics and distribution
professionals."
- Melissa Data Corporation - Provider
of data quality solutions to help you achieve the highest level of quality contact
information, such as Zip code, area code, mailing software, NCOA, address tools,
phone append, mailing lists and more.
- MetaStock Online - Chart the daily price
action of securities and plot sophisticated technical indicators – such as moving
averages – against the charts.
- Michigan Credit Union League - A Michigan
Credit Union Resource Guide. This site is packed with information about credit unions,
government, business, and fun and educational stuff, too!
- MortgageLoan.com - Mortgage Rates,
News & Advice - Find the best mortgage loans, refinancing rates, and home equity
loans across the nation. Since their lenders compete for your business, you will
get the lowest rates possible.
- Motley Fool - Finance and Folly.
- MSN MoneyCentral - Source for all
your personal finance needs. Get quotes, stock research, portfolio tracking, news,
and online bill payment. Keep informed and plan for retirement, college, taxes, insurance,
real estate, savings and more."
- NASDAQ
- NYSE - New York Stock Exchange
- Online Business Consumer Information Sites - Learn
more about an online retailers (good and bad) at these sites:
- BBB OnLine, Inc. -- "Promoting Trust
and Confidence on the Internet." A subsidiary of the Council of Better Business
Bureaus. Dispute resolution and self-regulation. Help Web users find reliable, trustworthy
businesses online, and to help reliable businesses identify themselves as such.
- BizRate.com Ratings
Guide - "Let the experience of actual buyers guide you to the best places
to shop online."
- Gomez.com - "The mission of Gomez Advisors
is to be the single best source of insight for consumers when selecting e-commerce
services. Look here before you buy, sell, or trade anything on the Web."
- The Complaint Station - A free,
central location to file your complaints or research previous complaints. You can
complain about or look into issues related to companies products, services, medicine,
employment, get rich quick scams, or any issue you can think of.
- Online Money Transfer Systems
- PayPal –
- Personal: Pay anyone by email for free! "Send money to anyone using your
existing credit card and bank account. You can settle debts, borrow cash, divide
bills or split expenses with friends all without going to an ATM or looking for your
checkbook.
- Merchants: see their Business Account and also Web Accept feature to "accept
one-step credit card payments from anywhere on the Web." You are only charged
1.9%, versus the typical 2.5% or more with credit cards companies.
- Western Union Money Zap - "Send,
request and receive funds online. Pay for online auction purchases, email a quick
gift of cash or split the cost of concert tickets online."
Yahoo! PayDirect - Consumers can send and receive money, at home or overseas,
via email. Put money into their PayDirect account from a checking account or credit
card. After the funds clear, the money can be sent to a person, retailer, or other
entity.
- Phone Companies:
- Quicken.com - A bit of everything for those
managing their money. Also, information on Quicken, Quickbooks, MacInTax, TurboTax,
and more. See also: Intuit Inc.
- Standard & Poor's ComStock on the Net
- Securities Industry Association
- Stock Quotes:
- The Scannery - Gather inforamtion from
companies all over the world... Search engine that covers the Web sites of more than
20,000 public companies in over 65 countries.
- TheStreet.com - "Hard-hitting financial
journalism. Irreverent and insightful market commentary."
- ThomasNet.com - Combines all the capabilities
of the ThomasRegister (comprehensive source of industrial purchasing information
on 480,000 manufacturers, distributors, and service companies) as well as offering
national manufacturing search, CAD search, brand search and more.
- TRW Information Systems - Credit reports.
- U.S. Department of Commerce
- U.S. Savings Bonds
- Utility Companies:
- Wallstreet E Online Trading Services:
- Western Union Financial Services -
Money transfers, sending money, receiving money, money wire, bill payment, telegrams,
emergency money.
- Yahoo's Finance Site - Stock Quotes, Financial
and Market News, and more.
- Yahoo! Yellow Pages
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