Guides: Finance and Investment: Encyclopedias & Handbooks

How to Tell if a Company Is Still Active

What to Do with an Old Stock Certificate
Directory of Obsolete Securities
Brief profiles of banks and companies whose original identities have been lost through merger, acquisition, dissolution, bankruptcy, or name change since 1927. Each company listing indicates how the company became obsolete, the new name of the company (if any), and the date the action occurred. When possible, an indication is made if the stock still has some value.
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The Goldsheet Obsolete Securities Page
Old mining companies and their stock certificates.

Glossaries

Finance

Investopedia.com
Investopedia provides a lot of information on investing and allows users to look at it based on where they are in their investing life: as a beginner, experienced investor, active trader or preparing for retirement. There are tutorials, an investment game, a dictionary, research material and more.
Investor Information
Created by the Securities and Exchange Commission Office of Investor Education and Assistance, this page has links to SEC tips and publications that will help users to "invest wisely and avoid costly mistakes and fraud." It also has suggestions on doing research, interactive tools to look at mutual funds and publicly traded companies, information on filing complaints, and links to other investor education sites.
Yahoo Finance
This source is great for finding publicly traded company information. It contains chart, competitors, financial statements, historical prices, insiders, news, ownership, profile, and SEC filings. Organized by Yahoo, this meta site also links to information on U.S. markets, world markets, data sources, finance references, investment editorials, financial news, and other helpful Web sites.
Barron's Finance & Investment Handbook
A comprehensive glossary of investment terms and a financial dictionary of more than 5,000 terms. Also provides a thorough overview of almost every type of investment (including bonds, annuities, life insurance, etc.) and an analysis of many current investment opportunities.
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Finance Tutorials

Study Finance: Fundamentals of Applied Finance
Several web-based tutorials on topics such as reading financial statements, leverage, dividend policy, and more. From Prof. Sharon Garrison, formerly of U. Arizona.
Lynda.com Finance Tutorials
Several videos from Lynda.com on finance. Mostly personal finance, but topics include M&A, financial ratios, reading financial reports, and more. (Log in to watch a particular video.)

Economics

Qfinance
This webpage is trying to capture all things finance and economics.

New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online This link opens in a new window
Designed for economists, this encyclopedia's articles read like those in economics journals. This is a continuously updated edition. It retains the descriptions of economic methods from earlier editions and adds more information on the findings of those methods. It also offers a new emphasis on advances in microeconomics, Bayesian theory, game theory and behavioral, international and experimental economics.

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AIE's Investor Education
Includes links to information about bonds, financial planning, futures, investing basics, mutual funds, older investors, options, scams, stocks, teachers, and young investors

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