Investor Tools - Financial Websites: Business News

This Web site review is organized to help you find areas that interest you. The focus is on financial and investment sites. We have also included several other sites. The sites listed here were chosen because of their ease of navigation, clarity and organization, quality of content and pricing.

For news junkies only. This is probably the most comprehensive business news site and serves as a source of news for many other sites. The news is organized logically, for example by company or sector. Real-time quotes are available for a monthly fee; charting is also available. Research is mainly based on technical analysis.

This site is a product of merger of CBS and data provider DBC. It provides breadth and depth in news and financial data with research and links to other sites. Market indexes automatically update every 60 seconds.

A Bloomberg box for the masses, this site provides current data on market indexes, currencies, and fixed-income yield curves. A 10-stock monitor tracks stocks and news all day on your desktop and refreshes automatically; the advanced version includes streaming audio/video. The site also features historical charting capability and tools such as financial calculators and gives users the ability to calculate total return for any stock in any time period, including the tax liability of an investment.