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5)- Business publications

The prototype of business publications are the daily newspaper (Wall Street Journal) and the magazine (Barron's) published by Dow Jones Company. They contain all the essential statistical data described above, as well as industry analysis, articles on specific companies and articles on issues related to the financial community. Similar information appears in most of the other publications listed below with greater emphasis on one or another aspect, and a style appropriate for its own audience. It is clearly impossible to read every publication. To locate the information that is useful for a given research, there are indexes that quickly point to the right source.

a)- Daily newspapers:
- Wall Street Journal on line at http://bis.dowjones.com/ and Dow Jones News and Retrieval Service with its Telnet.
- New York Times Business section on line at http://www.nytimes.com/
- Financial Times and web site at http://news.ft.com/
- Journal of Commerce on line at http://www.JOC.com/
- Investor's Daily on line at http://ibd.infostreet.com/

- Daily Commercial News
- Business sections of most important newspapers

b)- Weekly, bi-weekly or monthly magazines
- Fortune on line at http://www.fortune.com/fortune/.
- Barron's on line at http://www.barrons.com/ (part of the Dow Jones Corporation).
- Forbes also on line at http://www.forbes.com/
- Money Magazine and web site at http://www.money.com/money/
- Worth Magazine on line at http://www.worth.com/
- Business Week and web site at http://www.businessweek.com/
- Wall Street Transcript on line at http://www.twst.com/
- Commercial and Financial Chronicle
- Dun's Review
- Institutional Investor on line at http://www.iimagazine.com/
- Trust & Estates
- Market Chronicle
- Weekly Bond Buyer
- Stock Market Magazine
- Nation's Business
- Euromoney on line at http://www.euromoney.com/
- World Business Weekly
Also business sections of numerous important magazines have many useful and occasionally ground-breaking articles: for instance, Newsweek, Time and U.S. News and World Report.

 

c) Other media
- World Markets of CNN on the web at http://www.cnnfn.com/
- CBS Market Watch at http://cbs.marketwatch.com/

- Econoday at http://www.econoday.com/

- Reuters at http://www.reuters.com/
- Bloomberg Personal web site at http://www.bloomberg.com/

- On Line Investor at http://www.theonlineinvestor.com/

- Best Calls at http://www.bestcalls.com/

- First Call at http://www1.firstcall.com/

- Investor's Guide at http://www.investorguide.com/

- Wall Street View at http://www.wallstreetview.com/

- Yahoo Finance at http://quote.yahoo.com/

d)- Publication indexes
- Business Periodicals Index includes all business articles, not just for finance and investment in all business periodicals.
- F&S Index of Corporations and Industries is more specialized for investor's needs, and is assembled for different regions of the world, products and industry into two volumes called Predicast and Worldcast, which are also available on-line.
- New York Times Index covers all articles, not just business, but only in the New York Times.
- Wall Street Journal Index covers all articles of the Wall Street Journal, which obviously are almost all written for finance and investment purposes.

See review questions Q-1D5.1 to Q-1D5.4

See research assignment R-1D5.1.

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