Sources of Financial Information The Internet www.bloomberg.com http://money.cnn.com www.fool.com www.quicken.com www.sec.gov http://finance.yahoo.com Newspaper coverage of securities transactions Common and preferred stocks Bonds Mutual funds Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved
Reading Stock Quotations Source: Wall Street Journal, October 28, 2008, p. C9. Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved
Reading Bond Quotations Source: The Yahoo! Finance bond website at http://bonds.yahoo.com, accessed October 28, 2008. Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved
Reading Mutual Fund Quotations Source: Wall Street Journal, October 28, 2008, p. C11. Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved
Sources of Financial Information Other sources of financial information Investors’ services Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s, Mergent, Value Line, Morningstar, Lipper Analytical Services, Wiesenberger Investment Companies Brokerage firm analysts’ reports UBS PaineWebber, Smith Barney, Merrill Lynch Business periodicals Business Week, Fortune, Forbes Advertising Age, Business Insurance U.S. News & World Report, Time, Newsweek Money, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine, Consumer Reports Corporate reports A security average (security index) is an average of the current market prices of selected securities Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved
Sources of Financial Information (cont’d) Security averages An average of the current market prices of selected securities Dow Jones Industrial Average 30 leading industrial corporations Standard & Poor’s 500 Stock Index New York Stock Exchange Composite Index American Stock Exchange Index Nasdaq Composite Index Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved