financial tactics: QED

Thursday, April 1, 2010

sites

• NASDAQ - real-time (including pre- and post-market) quotes & charts (US markets): follow easily up to 25 stocks per browser
• Bloomberg.com - financial news, streaming Bloomberg News live TV. And The Baltic Dry Index, if you're looking for it (or didn't find it on InvestmentTools.com)
• Yahoo! Finance - financial news, stock, commodity, and currency quotes. Various editions, including a Canadian one
• Report on Business - The Globe and Mail's financial pages. Set up a portfolio or a list of stocks to track at globeinvestor.com. Rob Carrick's columns may give you an idea or two
• BNN - get inspired or confirm your investment contemplations with the daily TV clips of Market Call and MarketCall Tonight (and their Top Picks segments)
• CNBC - its pre-markets data is a good read with the morning coffee
• Reuters, the business & finance pages
• Financial Times, the US edition
• The Wall Street Journal - excellent reading (unless item is locked). From the top bar go to Barron's, AllThingsDigital, SmartMoney, etc.
• CNN Money - CNN's business pages
• Financial Post - Canadian and world investing and finances

• Investopedia - dictionary, tutorials, articles
• StockCharts.com - see / create financial charts of all sorts
• OSC's Investor Education Fund - Canadian financial information
• Canada Revenue Agency - taxes, the Canadian friendly way
• Canada Benefits - federal and provincial benefit programs
• Canadian Mortgage Trends - all mortgage news fit to display
• Larry MacDonald and Canadian Capitalist - two popular Canadian blogs on investing, markets, and personal finance