Investor Tools - Financial Websites: Economic Information

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.

The site of the chief global economist of Deutsche Bank Securities, it includes and abundance of free information and data on financial markets, economics, and demographics.

Want to know when the long bond traded in 1978? This site offers dozens of data series on interest rates and monetary aggregates that can be downloaded.

This site, which provides weekly reports of layoffs across the country, can be a valuable prospecting tool, since people in transition often need investment advice. The site also provides workplace and labor statistics, Internet demographics, listings of job fairs, and top recruiting markets for various industries.

The IMF may draw the scorn of some politicians but it should win kudos for having a pretty substantial Web site. The site offers economic data and academic working papers in abundance as well as a version of the semiannual World Economic Outlook that can be downloaded.

This site is for economic junkies only. It features business, trade, and economic data Commerce Department as well as current and historical data on major economic indicators such as the CPI.