Links from The Investment FAQ: Timely Information Sources

• Quote, chart, and news providers for US markets
• Quote, chart, and news providers for non-US markets
• Historical data providers (including end-of-day reports)
• Newspapers and on-line media

Quote, Chart, and News Providers for US Markets

• Afexco offers free market analysis, news, real time quotes, charts, etc. for the Foreign Exchange market.
  http://www.afexco.com

• Barchart Market Research offers stock quotes, stock charts, sector analysis, technical analysis, email quotes, and more.
  http://equities.barchart.com

• BigCharts offers a huge selection of graphs, reports, etc. on stock market data.
  http://www.bigcharts.com/

• Briefing.com delivers the latest information for the U.S. stock and mutual fund investor.
  http://www.briefing.com/

• Capital Management Sciences-InSite offers services for institutional investors (real-time market data, news, and research) via the Internet.
  http://www.insite.dbc.com

• The Chicago Mercantile Exchange provides free real-time quotes for its currency, emerging markets and futures contracts. Registration is required.
  http://www.cme.com/dta/rt/

• DBC Online offers real-time quotes, news, access to on-line trading, and much more. Users must register; some services require a subscription fee. They also offer services aimed at institutional investors.
  http://www.dbc.com

• Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities offers an on-line investment service with free and paid services, including real-time quotes, etc.
  http://www.dljdirect.com/

• EODData.com offers free end-of-day stock quotes and historical data. They also sell services such as daily email with end-of-day prices.
  http://www.eoddata.com/

• Farcast.Com sells stock quotes and press releases, and delivers them via e-mail. About $20/month. Send e-mail to info@farcast.com

• FierceFinance offers a free daily email service, with must-read banking, brokerage, and capital markets news. Sign up at http://www.fiercefinance.com/

• First International Financial offers free real-time quotes from their web site. Registration is required, but just electronically, and there's (currently, anyhow) no limit on the number of quotes you can retrieve daily.
  http://www.freerealtime.com

• FuturesQuotes.com provides daily and historical prices for commodities such as corn, crude, and currencies.
  http://futuresquotes.com

• FX Street is a forex portal with real-time exchange rates and charts, forex software, currency converter, latest forex news, market commentaries, trends and forecasts, brokerage firms, and more.
  http://www.fxstreet.com/

• Fox News and Thomson Investors Network on the Fox News web site offer 50 free real-time quotes per day. Exchange rules requires users to print out a registration form, sign it, and mail it in.
  http://rtq.newscorp.com/fox/index.sht

• GrowFolio bills itself as the world's first online investment, finance, business, and lifestyle magazine.
  http://www.growfolio.com

• Infotec Ltt, a Swiss software company Infotec, offers financial applications and technology solutions for the global banking and financial community, including market information and trading software. Covers US and other markets.
  http://www.infotecnet.com/

• Insider News Wire highlights the largest dollar value insider trading each day. Maintained by Bruce Carleton.
  http://insidernewswire.com/

• InvestorSquare offers charts, quotes, news, and especially active market tools. This site will allow you to profile and explore mutual funds according to various criteria.
  http://www.investorsquare.com

• InvestorsUniverse.com is a completely free service that allows pro-active investors to use a large number of investment tools for free, receive stock information, analysis information, discuss investments with other investors, etc.
  http://www.investorsUniverse.com

• InterQuote offers interactive access to real-time and delayed quotes, as well as end-of-day updates via e-mail. Call them at +1 (414) 697-7770 or send e-mail to support@interquote.com.
  http://www.interquote.com/

• JavaTicker offers a fully customizable stock and/or news ticker. Users can create free home pages with personalized financial information and portfolios.
  http://www.javaticker.com

• MarketVolume provides real time volume of S&P 500, Nasdaq 100, S&P 100 and other indexes. Volume-based technical analysis. Market timing of QQQ, SPDRs, Diamonds.
  http://www.marketvolume.com

• Mercury Mail sends news and information tailored to your particular interests via email at no charge.
  http://www.merc.com

• Nordby International educates and entertains business information enthusiasts by offering essential investing tools, such as broker reports, stock splits, stock quotes, personal portfolios and stock contests.
  http://www.nordby.com/

• One Source For Stocks is your free online source for stock market investing! Profit from our profiles, stock picking strategies, recommendations, education and research. From penny stocks to large cap, we’re your source.
  http://www.1source4stocks.com

• Paracel offers a custom, real time news service delivered via the web, email, or Lotus Notes.
  http://www.online.paracel.com

• PC Quote offers free delayed quotes including a real-time DJIA quote.
  http://www.pcquote.com/

• Power Stocks International offers news of the week, charts, links, etc.
  http://www.powerstocks.com

• Quicken.Com is a comprehensive resource for individual investors. They offer help with finding information relevant to personal investing and financial management on the Web, detailed information about mutual funds, free quotations, etc.
  http://www.quicken.com/

• QuoteCom sells financial market data via the net and e-mail. Registered users may request 5 free quotes daily; paid services include portfolio tracking, S&P reports, and more. Call them at 800 261-7740 or +1 (702) 324-7129, or send e-mail to info@quote.com.
  http://www.quote.com/

• Reuters' MoneyNet offers quotes, portfolio tracking, news, etc.
  http://www.moneynet.com

• The Stock Room is a collection of graphs based on data from George Holt's reports and other sources.
  http://www.stockroom.org

• StockSmart lets you follow the markets in real time.
  http://www.stocksmart.com

• StockVue displays data on your portfolio using an internet feed to update the information constantly.
  http://www.stockvue.com/

• StockWizard offers advanced stock charting and analysis for experienced traders and technical analysts.
  http://www.stockwizard.com

• StreetInsider.com helps you get inside Wall Street. Access real-time, market-moving news and rumors. Two week free trial.
  http://www.streetinsider.com

• The Financials.com offers financial analyses, charts, breaking news, real-time quotes, futures research, and historical data, primarily for the forex and commodities markets.
  http://www.thefinancials.com/

• Timely.com has charts and quotes on over 17,000 U.S. securities.
  http://www.timely.com

• Tomorrow's Wave offers intraday charts projecting the movements of the S&P500 index during the next trading session. The 'Distant Waves' section provides a longer term analysis projecting market movements during the next 1-2 weeks.
  http://www.tomorrowswave.com

• Trading Systems Analysis Group offers Commitments of Traders (COT) data prepared for most popular charting software. Learn how to apply technical analysis principles to COT data formatted for use in MetaStock and Tradestation technical analysis software.
  http://www.tsagroup.com

• UpTick.com is your source for financial market data and featured company profiles, with a strong focus on small and micro-cap issues.
  http://www.uptick.com/

• ViaCentrix offers SnapTerminal, which serves up real time market information such as streaming quotes, fundamentals, stock upgrades and downgrades, the professional Reuters news feed, charts, etc. in an online terminal ($25/month). They also offer SnapAlerts, which allows the customer to set up an unlimited number of alerts using various criteria on stock prices ($7/month). Alerts can be delivered via email to a PC, pager or other wireless device.
  http://www.viacentrix.com/cgi-bin/at.cgi?a=227000

• Wall Street Courier offers technical indicators for market timers, option traders and commodity traders like NYSE member trading and traders commitments, odd-lot short sales and put/volume ratio, call/put ratio and high-low index. Also market behaviors, indicators, techniques and strategies for day traders.
  http://www.wallstreetcourier.com

• WallStreetWeb is an online trading service that's totally built in Java. The features include interactive charting, custom lists of your own stock favorites, portfolio management, stock searching, e-mail alerts, alpha-pager alerts, trading stats and more.
  http://www.wallstreetweb.com/

• Yahoo Finance offers quotes, news, charts, and much more.
  http://quote.yahoo.com

Quote, Chart, and News Providers for Non-US Markets

• CorLine offers data and commentary for the Russian stock markets.
  http://eng.corline.com

  Chartware.de offers quotes, charts, technical analysis including buy/sell recommendations that support the user to select profitable stocks. Our financial service includes all international indices, stocks and currencies as well as options software. Please download our free options calculator.
  http://www.chartware.de

• CurrencyPro is a forex portal with free financial information and news, data, charts, real-time currency prices, WAP currency converters and charts, and a chat forum for FX professionals.
  http://www.currencypro.com/main.php

• European market information is maintained by students at the University of Frankfurt, Germany. Most text is in German.
  http://www.wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de/AG/JWGI

• EuropeanInvestor covers the major European markets and offers quotes, news, currency prices etc.
  http://www.EuropeanInvestor.com

• FAIT Stock/Option Analysis provides buy/sell recommendations for major stock markets based on technical methods as well as options software. http://www.fait.at

• The Financial Information Warehouse offers quotes for German stocks, in German-language of course (überhaupt kein Problem, oder?).
  http://www.financial.de

• InTechTra offers the Hong Kong Stocks Report with charts, news, etc.
  http://www.asiawind.com/pub/hksr/

• Interactive Investor Asia is a free site that provides investment information about Asian countries, including stock quotes, fund performance figures on the 6000+ funds available in Asia, daily investment news, a discussion forum, and a unique portfolio to track all your investments.
  http://www.iii-asia.com

• InvestIndia offers quotes for companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange, also market indexes and daily business news reports.
  http://quark.kode.net/india

• LiveCharts offers live index charts, commodity charts, FTSE 100, Dow Jones charts, Brent oil chart, and historical stock data downloads.
  http://www.livecharts.co.uk/

• The Royal Bank of Canada offers a daily currency and credit market report, Canadian and U.S. interest rates, and an exchange rate table.
  http://www.royalbank.com

• Rye, Man and Gor Securities, a Russian brokerage firm, offers fundamental information about the Russian equity market, the daily main indicators, stock quotes, and latest events on the market.
  http://www.rmg.ru

• Valorimage offers detailed quotes for French small-cap stocks, in French-language of course (sans aucun problème!). Send email to info@smcaps.com for information about subscriptions.
  

• The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration offers data for the Vienna Stock Exchange.
  http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/cgi-bin/boerse1.pl

• The Virtual Stock Market offers quotes for companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, also market indexes.
  http://www.hayato.com

Historical Data from US Markets

• Anderson Investor's Software, Inc. sells market data as well as the finance and investment software you need to analyze that data. A catalog is available on-line.
  http://www.invest-soft.com

• DataStream International offers daily closes and charts for world stock market indexes, also monthly key economic indicators.
  http://www.datastream.com

• Economagic offers free, easily available economic time series data useful for economic research, in particular economic forecasting.
  http://www.economagic.com

• Pacific Brokerage Services offers free access to much historical data.
  http://www.tradepbs.com/

• Premium Data is a data downloading program for stock and futures markets in USA, Australia, and Singapore. All data is fully adjustment for splits, renames, etc. and can be examined either alphabetically or by sectors/index participation. Supports Metastock and ASCII formats.
  http://www.premiumdata.net

• Ed Savage (egsavage@email.com) collects equity data. Stated purpose: "To collect publicly available market data in one place so people can FTP it easily." Users are invited to donate *freely redistributable* data or access same. This is NOT a real-time or 15-minute delay quote server. It does have a limited number of close-of-day quotes.
  ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/archives/misc.invest/

• TeleSys offers free access to day-old data from stock exchanges around the world. They have data on over 60,000 different stocks.
  http://www.teleserv.co.uk/stock/

• The Age offers daily Australian business headlines.
  http://www.theage.com.au/

• Bloomberg Financial Markets
  http://www.bloomberg.com

• ClariNet's business briefs
  http://www.clarinet.com

• The Cable News Network, aka CNN
  http://www.cnn.com

• The CNN financial network, aka CNNfn
  http://www.cnnfn.com

• The Financial Journal covers the NASDAQ.
  http://www.law.cornell.edu/nasdaq/

• Britain's Financial Times
  UK site: http://www.ft.com
  US site: http://www.usa.ft.com

• The Globe & Mail offers articles from recent issues.
  http://www.globeandmail.ca/
  

• The Jerusalem Post
  http://www.jpost.co.il

• The Nando Times offers business news headlines.
  http://www2.nando.net/nt/biz/
  

• The New York Times Online Edition. Registration is required but access is free for North American readers.
  http://www.nytimes.com/

• The New York Times offers a free, daily summary edition online.
  http://nytimesfax.com/

• USA Today offers leading business headlines with some full articles.
  http://www.usatoday.com/

• The Wall Street Journal offers much of the daily edition to paying subscribers. The free ride ended on 21 Sep 1996.
  http://update.wsj.com/

• Die Welt Online offers complete daily German stock prices.
  http://www.welt.de/