Business and Investing

Companies	Investments	Business Magazines
Calculators	Business Advice	Patents

• Annual Report Gallery
• The Big List - Insurance Company Home Pages - Insurance Industry
• Business - LibrarySpot.com
• CEOExpress: Business portal for executives created by a CEO
• EDGAR Database 
  Contains submissions by companies required to file forms with the SEC, including 10-K reports
• Hoover's Online 
• NAICS -- North American Industry Classification System
• Researching Companies: LibrarySpot.com Feature
• Thomas Food Industry Register  "On this site, food service and food processing professionals can search our database of more than 22,000  U.S. and Canadian suppliers of food products, ingredients, equipment, and supplies listed under 5,800 product categories.  You'll also find free, up-to-date information on trade shows, government resources and trade boards around the world."
• Thomas Global Register "TGR is a directory of 500,000 manufacturers and distributors from 22 countries, classified by 10,500 products and services categories. Its mission is to bring industrial buyers and sellers together on the web to facilitate the purchasing process." (free registration required)
• Thomas Register of American Manufacturers

Investments, Banking, and Credit

• 411Stocks
• American Association of Individual Investors
  "Our purpose is to arm individual investors with the tools and knowledge to manage finances and investments effectively and profitably."
• American Stock Exchange (AMEX)
• Bankrate.com
• BigCharts - Includes historical stock quotes.
• Bloomberg.com financial markets commodities news
• Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
• Business Wire
  "Business Wire is a leading source of news on major US corporations, including Fortune 1000 and NASDAQ companies. We electronically disseminate full-text news releases for public and investor relations professionals simultaneously to the news media, on-line services and databases, the Internet and the investment community worldwide." 
• CBS.MarketWatch.com
• Choose to Save Education Program
• CNN Money 
• Daily Stocks - Stocks Search Engine
• Economic Time Series Page 
• FinanCenter - Education, Calculators & Planners
• Financial Calculators
• FT.com Globalbusiness news search and analysis from the Financial Times
• Fool.com: Finance and Folly
• FundAdvice.com
• Historical Currency Table
• Investopedia.com - The Investing Education Site
• Minnesota Public Radio's Sound Money
• Money-Rates
• Morningstar.Com
• MSN Money - CNBC
• Mutual Funds - CNN Money
• The Nasdaq Stock Market Home Page
• New York Stock Exchange
• PC Quote - Provides online stock quotes.
• Prime Interest Rate; Monthly NSA, Percent
• RiskGrades
• Quicken Financial Network 
• Quote.Fool.Com - Includes Historical Quotes
• Red Herring Online
• Savings Bonds Calculator
• Securities and Exchange Commission
  The primary purpose of the SEC site is "to provide the investing public with a reliable source of investment guidance, advice, and information so that they may make wise investing decisions." 
• TheStreet.com
• Thomson Investors Network
• WebEc: WWW Resources in Economics
• Yahoo! Finance

Business Magazines on the WWW

• Advertising Age 
• Bizjournals
• Black Enterprise 
• Business Week 
• Commerce Business Daily
• The Economist 
• Entrepreneur Magazine -- The Online Small Business Authority
• Forbes 
• Fortune
• Inc.com
• Kiplinger Online 
• Smartmoney.com
• WAHM:  The Newsletter and Online Magazine for Work at Home Moms

Calculators

• Bankrate.com
• Consumer Price Index Calculator (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis) - What's A Dollar Worth?
• Cost-of-Living Calculator - AIER
• Domestic Per Diem Tables Effective October 1, 2003
• Homebuyers' Fair Relocation Salary Calculator 
• Hugh's Mortgage and Financial Calculators
• Java Financial Calculators

Business Advice and Assistance

• Advancing Women's Business Center
• Business@Home: Making A Life While Making A Living
• target="_new"Business Owner's Toolkit | Resources for the Small Business Owner (Includes model business documents, financial spreadsheet templates and checklists on a variety of topics, including starting your business, marketing, recruiting and hiring, and finance.)
• Business Resources (from the Wilton Library Association)
• CEO Express: Executive Gateway to the Internet
• EntreWorld.org
• The Franchise Handbook Online
• Idea Cafe, the Small Business Gathering Place 
• Minority Business Development Agency
  General information on Federal government management and technical assistance programs to assist minority-owned businesses. 
• MoreBusiness.com - sample business plans, contracts and marketing plans
• Online Women's Business Center
• Quicken.com - Small Business: Start a Business
• Resources for the small business owner or entrepreneur (from the Wilton Library Association)
• Small Business Administration (SBA) Online - State Small Business Profiles :
  Infformation on SBA programs and publications on starting, financing, and expanding a small business. 
• U.S. Business Advisor
  One-stop shopping for government resources
• U.S. Chamber of Commerce 

Patents, Trademarks, and Copyright

• The Copyright Website 
• Index to Manual of Classification of Patents 
• Invention Dimension
• NCIO Homepage: Inventing 101: Patentability: Patent Search
• Patent Dater
• United States Copyright Office 
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office 
• Wacky Patent of the Month