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• American Stock Exchange
  Includes profiles of Amex-listed companies, with delayed stock quotes, stock price charts, and links to company news and EDGAR filings.

• BizRefdesk
  Provides statistics, surveys, trends, other blogs, alphabetical by industry.

• CNBC.com
  Stock market news, earnings, financial, world market news and information. CNBC's official site.

• CNN Money
  This site provides breaking news, stock quotes, government resources, and CNN reference desk.

• Chicago Board of Trade
  The Chicago Board of Trade is the world’s oldest derivatives (futures and futures-options) exchange. Find price quotes, charts, and other data.

• Chicago Mercantile Exchange
  Futures and options contracts traded at the CME include currencies, interest rates, stock indexes and agricultural commodities.

• Entrepreneur.com
  Includes Business Blog, Slideshows, Podcasts, Business Forms, Resource Centers, Startup Guides, Business Bookstore, Opportunity Finder, Franchise Consultation, Classifieds, Products & Services. Click on Tools and Services for a wide range of business startup topics.
  See Entrepreneur magazine's link to business forms and plans.

• Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
  Provides useful, timely information about the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, the Federal Reserve System, and the regional, national and global economies.

• Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED)
  FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data), is one of the nation's largest databases of economic time series. FRED provides Federal Reserve Board statistical releases, the Beige  Book, working papers, historical data file series (monthly monetary data, interest rates, reserves, CPI, exchange rates).

• Finance Commission of Texas
  The Finance Commission is responsible for overseeing and coordinating the Texas Department of Banking, the Department of Savings and Mortgage Lending, and the Office of the Consumer Credit Commissioner.

• Financial Data Finder (Ohio State University)
  This is a site of financial and economic data available on the Web and elsewhere.

• Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA -- formerly NASD) 
  This is the largest non-governmental regulator for all securities firms doing business in the United States (Formerly National Association of Securities Dealers, NASD).

• Futures and Options Resources on the Web (via the Office for Futures and Options Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
  Covers U. S. and world stock & options exchanges; commodity prices and outlook; research in commodities; government resources (including Federal Reserve Bank websites); other futures, options, and related sites.

• International Monetary Fund
  The IMF is an organization of 184 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty.

• Internet Resources for Finance (Georgia State University) 
  Contents: general financial sites, analysis, bonds, corporate financials, earnings estimates, exchange rates, exchanges (stock and commodity exchanges), indices, mergers and acquisitions, mutual funds, personal finance.
  URL:Georgia State University Research Guides are located at the following home page:
  http://www.library.gsu.edu/research/ 

• Morningstar.com 
  Information on stocks, mutual funds, variable annuities, closed-end funds, exchange-traded funds, separate accounts, hedge funds, and 529 college savings plans.

• MSN Money
  Includes market report, breaking news, stock research, quotes, charts & news, analyst ratings, advisor FYI, stock screener, mutual fund research, fund directory, 401(k) planner, banking & bills, retirement & wills, taxes, insurance, saving & spending, family & college, and mortgages & loans.

• NASDAQ Web Site
  Quotes, intraday and historical daily close and volume charts going back 72 months, news, and company facts on all NASDAQ companies.

• New York Stock Exchange
  Daily market summary, links to listed companies' Web pages, and summary statistical information of NYSE trading activity.

• Office for Futures and Options Research (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
  Contents: Working Papers, OFOR Publications, Web Resources, Simulations (HedgeSim; TradeSim).

• Quote.com
  Includes delayed stock and bond quotes, charts, mutual fund data market updates, analysts' changes, and news from CBS MarketWatch.

• Reuters.com Business
  Business news, international business, and financial news. Includes banking, consumer products, retail, health, technology, media, telecom, transportation, and other industries.

• Reuters.com/Finance
  Breaking news, business, financial and investing news, including personal finance and stocks.

• Reuters.com Stocks Information
  This site provides financial ratios of industries in addition to market news and company and industry figures. To find industry ratios, enter the stock symbol of a public company. You will then go to a summary page about that company. If you then select (on the left side) Comparison, you will get comparisons of some of the company's financial performance ratios against the industry. Registration is required to use the site but registration is free.

• SEC EDGAR Database
  SEC EDGAR provides searchable US Securities and Exchange filings for public companies.
  The SEC makes quarterly and annual reports from public companies available to the public via the EDGAR system (Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval).
  URL: http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml

• Securities Investor Protection Corporation 
  Funds from the SIPC reserve are available to satisfy the remaining claims of each customer up to a maximum of $500,000. This figure includes a maximum of $100,000 on claims for cash.

• Texas Department of Savings and Mortgage Lending
  Regulating State Chartered Savings Banks with combined assets of over $9 billion. Regulating over 24,000 Mortgage Brokers and Loan Officers throughout Texas. Regulating over 400 Mortgage Banking Companies.

• Texas Department of Banking
  Regulates in Texas: banks and holding companies, foreign banks, trust companies, money services businesses, prepaid funeral contracts, perpetual care cemeteries, and private child support enforcement agencies.

• Texas State Securities Board
  The Board registers securities offered or sold in Texas and oversees the firms and individuals selling securities or providing investment advice to Texans.

• University of Michigan Survey Research Center
  Includes the Consumer Sentiment Survey. The Center provides interdisciplinary social science research involving the collection or analysis of data from scientific sample surveys, including economic behavior and family & demography. Covers the Survey of Consumer Attitudes, the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, the Health and Retirement Study, and the Retirement Research Center.

• VIVA Statistics Page [University of Virginia Library]
  Provides U.S. and international economic  statistics. This web page is an attempt to link to some of the current statisitics included in StatUSA (no longer published).  The site includes links to: economic indicators, daily Treasury statements, energy statistics, foreign trade data, CPI, BEA data, country profiles, country commercial guides, Market Research Reports.

• World Development Indicators (The World Bank) 
  Contains statistical data for over 700 development indicators and time series data from 1960–2006 for 226 economies. Data includes social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators. Data export options in standard formats such as Excel.  To access the full WDI, visit the World DataBank.
  URL: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator
  

• Yahoo! Finance
  Has Open, High, Low, Close and Volume going back 20 years or more for most of the major exchanges. Furnishes quotes, financial news, stock market statistics, bond market statistics, industry statistics, and personal financial planning information.
  

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1. Websites
2. Researching old stock certificates in the UNT Libraries

Websites: researching old stock certificates

• Google results: "Old Stock Certificates"
• OldCompany.com
• Prudential American Securities Pricing
• Scripophily.com
• SEC.gov -- Old Stock Certificates
  An old stock or bond certificate may still be valuable even if it no longer trades under the name printed on the certificate. The company may have merged with another company or simply changed its name. You can use the resources on this site if an old stock or bond certificate has value. Even if you learn that a certificate has no value, you may find that the certificate itself has value as a collectable.
• What to do with an old stock certificate (Enoch Pratt Free Library)
  This site covers getting started, company histories, corporate records, what is Scripophily, and fee-based services.

Researching old stock certificates in the UNT Libraries:

• Security owner's stock guide (Standard and Poor's Corporation) HG4915 .S67 
  CURRENT UNBOUND ISSUES IN BUSINESS REFERENCE, WILLIS LIBRARY, 3RD FLOOR, call number HG4915 .S67; for bound copies, click this link to the UNT Libraries' Online Catalog to get a complete list of years and locations.
• Moody's industrial manual [microform].
  Moody's Investors Service.  UNT Library Has MICROFICHE: 1954-2000
  Click this link to the UNT Libaries' Online Catalog to get a complete list of years and locations.
• The Value line investment survey.
  UNT Library Microforms Department has on Microfiche in WILLIS LOWER LEVEL the years 1980-current.
  The Microfilms Department, WILLIS LOWER LEVEL, also has v.24(1969)-v.35(1979), CALL NUMBER: Film J1128. 
  Remote Storage has the years 1966 - 1982.  For a complete list of years and locations, please click this link to the UNT Libraries' Online Catalog.
• Standard & Poor's register of corporations, directors and executives.  Standard & Poor's Corp., c1973-
  The current edition is located in Business Reference, 3rd floor, Willis Library, call number HG4057 .A41. The Previous editions start in 1973.  For a complete list of years and locations, click this link to the UNT Libraries' Online Catalog.
• Predicasts F & S index of corporate change 1979-1992.
  UNT Libraries has in REMOTE STORAGE: v.15(1979)-v.28(1992).
  Click this link to the UNT Libraries Online Catalog for a complete list of years and locations.
• Walker's manual of unlisted stocks, 1996 - current.
  The latest edition is in Business Reference, 3rd floor, Willis Library, call number HG4501 .W26. For a complete list of years and locations, click this link to the UNT Libraries' Online Catalog.

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The Trading Room

• Location: Business Leadership Building.

Important Documents

• SPRING 2012 SCHEDULE (Sunday, Feb. 5-Thursday, May 3)
• Trading Room Mission and Policies
• How to Create a Bloomberg Account

Trading Room Policies

• The Mission of the Trading Room is to facilitate finance education and research through experiential learning. The Mission is accomplished by providing a state-of-the-art facility with cutting edge technology.
• The Trading Room supports the Student Investment Group and the research of faculty and students in the College of Business.
• The Trading Room is open on the same schedule as the Computer Labs in the BLB. The Trading Room can be scheduled according to the priorities established below. To determine availability, check the Trading Room calendar on the COB web site.
• The Trading Room is equipped with 11 computer terminals and one lap top computer with Bloomberg Professional access on all 12 computers. The room is equipped with stock tickers with 15 minute delay to actual market trading data.  The room is surrounded by stock tickers to allow users to view real market data as it becomes available.
• Faculty members in the Department of Finance, Insurance, Real Estate and Law and other departments in the College of Business schedule class meetings and laboratory times in the Trading Room.
• Faculty members can also request that certain hours in the Trading Lab be restricted to use by their students.
• By completing the Bloomberg Essentials Online Training Program, students can earn an Acknowledgment in Equities, Fixed Income, Foreign Exchange, and/or Commodities.
• From Noon to 2 p.m. on Sundays, the Trading Room will be restricted to persons who are seeking the Bloomberg Acknowledgement. Terminals will be available on a “first come, first served” basis during this time.  Activity in the room will be limited to ensure that those studying and testing for the Bloomberg Acknowledgment have a quiet place to study and take the exams.

Bloomberg Professional

• Bloomberg Professional is utilized by political and economic leaders for up to the minute information.
• Bloomberg Professional is a service that allows users to monitor and analyze real-time financial market data and trades.
• The system is a secure, proprietary network that provides information from over 129 countries and 250 exchanges. 
• Bloomberg also provides “real time” access to an amazing variety of news and information sources from around the globe.
• For more information about Bloomberg's financial services, please view this web site: http://www.bloomberg.com/professional/.
• Information on Bloomberg/Faculty cooperation is on the Bloomberg For Education site.
• For today's market news: see the Bloomberg.com site.
• Bloomberg Businessweek.
• Bloomberg Guide: learn how to use the Bloomberg Professional service (designed by the University of Florida).

UNT College of Business

• Department of Finance, Insurance, Real Estate, and Law home page.
• College of Business home page.
• Information and Learning Technologies Center home page (covers the various computer labs, facilities, and lab hours).

Other Resources in the College Of Business & the UNT Libraries

• COB Tutor Labs | Find a COB Computer Lab | COB Virtual Lab Hours | CILTC
• Wharton Research Data Services in the College of Business (contact Cengiz Capan for specifics including password).
• Research Databases & Applications in the College of Business.
• Financial Research Databases in the College of Business.
• UNT Libraries' Electronic Resources / Business and Economics.
• UNT Libraries' Electronic Resources / Physical Sciences and Engineering.
• UNT Libraries' Title Search for Electronic Journals: search either the Serials Solutions database or the Online Catalog.
• Extra portal to get into the Libraries' system: Virtual Personal Network (VPN) https://vpn.unt.edu.
• UNT Libraries: Research Toolkits (Libraries' services for faculty & students), including Interlibrary Loan, putting material on Reserve, document delivery, off campus access, email alerts, style manuals, literature review techniques, database tutorials, journal acceptance rates, electronic dissertations, schedules of workshops. 

College of Business - Library Cooperation

• "The College of Business appreciates the support by the Libraries in helping the College of Business and the FIREL Department enhance the tools and information available to our students. We are delighted to add Bloomberg to that 'tool box' and to be able to share it with our colleagues."
  -- Dr. Marcia Staff