Investment Software
Investment SoftwareStudents may download Leading Market Technologies' financial analysis software for investing from LMT's homepage. This is a powerful package, used by many analysts. There are also links to many data files for stocks, bonds, mutual funds, commodities, etc. This is a tremendous site for financial and economic analysts.If you are interested in sophisticated analytical tools, check this one out!
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to CompaniesThis site is provided by Dun and Bradstreet and Lycos with links to many American businesses. They claim there are more than 100,000 public and private firms you can link from this site. Powerful search engines allow you to zero in on the firm you are looking for.
Here are links to many interesting sources of financial resources for students of finance. If you are interested in finance or investing, you are sure to find several sites to bookmark from this location. Some of the information they link to requires subscriptions, but much of it is available at no charge. Some of the data is also provided through Valparaiso University's subscription to Disclosure Global Access.
A commercial site has prepared articles with information on stocks, indices, bonds, options, futures, etc. Includes glossaries of financial terms, introductions to investing, and many other things. Check it out! The site also has many investing type computer programs available for download, some of them at no charge.
This page maintains links to most things of interest to finance. It has worldwide links. It is primarily oriented toward professionals in the finance world.
Wall Street Research Net consists of over 190,000 links to help professional and private investors perform fundamental research on actively traded companies and mutual funds and locate important economic data that moves markets. They claim they are the most comprehensive site for investors on the internet.
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Reserve BanksThe FRB have provided links to all the regional banks, with access to research, data and economic commentary.
Two of the more impressive sources of interactive US social and economic data are the University of Virginia Social Sciences Data Center and the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Selective Access Data site.
Showing the tremendous potential of the web as a source of data retrieval, both these sites allow the user, through forms-based interfaces, to extract data in specific formats. A recent enhancement to the University of Virginia site is the availability of selected National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA) from 1959 to the most recent available. These accounts "show the value and composition of the nation's output and the distribution of incomes generated in its production." Users can select data sets and time periods, and the site returns a graph and table of the data. The table can then be downloaded to the your client computer.
BLS Selective Access allows users to specify exactly what data they would like from a large selection of its databases, including local area unemployment statistics, consumer price indexes, and producer price indexes, among others. By interacting with the system four or five times, a user can retrieve a customized table of historical data. For example, it is a relatively simple procedure to retrieve a monthly or semi-annual, seasonally or non-seasonally adjusted compilation of the all urban consumer CPI, at 1982-84=100 or 1967=100 base, for the entire length of the series using this system. This data can then be formatted in various ways for output to statistical analysis programs or spreadsheets.
FAIRMODEL is a computer-based model of the United States economy, made up of 131 equations and reams of actual and predicted economic data covering the years 1952 to 2001. Users can experiment on a scale even politicians only dream of: For instance, they can adjust the income-tax rate and see how the Gross National Product and other measures of economic activity are affected.Prof. Ray C. Fair of Yale University has made his FAIRMODEL economic forecasting software available on the web. "FAIRMODEL involves 131 interrelated equations that, taken together, approximate how the economy works. The model consists of 30 stochastic equations, 101 identities, and about 100 exogenous variables. It has been estimated using two stage least squares." Users can estimate changes in the economy based on interactive input of different assumptions for policy variables (for example, how an increase or decrease in government spending might affect unemployment.)
Note: this is not a site for the casual user. Your browser must support frames and Javascript in order for FAIRMODEL to work. Users are strongly advised to read both the "Getting Started" section and the "FAIRMODEL Workbook," (which by itself is an excellent introduction to macroeconometric modeling and contains the 30 stochastic equations) before delving into the program itself.
Professor Fair says models like his required powerful mainframe computers to crunch the numbers. Now all the computation can be done right on the Internet -- in a matter of seconds.
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