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MARKET SUMMARIES

  • Market Summary from MSN. Gainers, losers, most active for NYSE, NASDAQ, AMEX. Updated daily.
  • Big Movers from Bloomberg.
  • Investor's Edge Gainers, losers, most active for NYSE, NASDAQ, AMEX.
  • Most Active from MSN Investor.
  • Widely Held Daily, from IDD.
  • Largest (by market cap) Daily, from IDD.
  • The Holt Report (also here and here). Daily market stats: most active, indexes, averages. There is an archive of previous reports. You can also get it emailed to you automatically each day.
  • Standard and Poor's Today's Headlines (specific stocks).
  • Trendvest Daily summary. Technical focus.
  • CNNfn if you enjoy extra clicking.

    • Quick Business News Headlines-More News Links Available Below

    Today's Business News Headlines/Summaries

    Economic Releases
    Market Update
    News Update

    Updated throughout the day

    GENERAL

  • JAG Notes Yesterday's analyst comments. Free. Excellent.
  • Bloomberg World Markets Most active stocks, treasuries, world equities, municipal bond yields, futures, international yield curves. Also, Bloomberg World Markets News.
  • Briefing Market Report Very good.
  • Newspage Market News
  • Morgan Stanley
  • Market Summary from Security APL.
  • Market Watch from Hooked and Quote.com. Intraday charts, market watch, indexes, and industry groups.
  • Nando Stock Market Report
  • Wall Street Net New issues.
  • Wall Street News
  • Market Summary
  • Market Summary from Telescan.
    • World Summaries

    MARKET SUMMARIES

  • World Markets Snapshot from Bloomberg.
  • World Equity Indexes from Bloomberg. Twice daily.
  • Daily Global Economic Forum from Morgan Stanley.
  • CNN end of day World Markets
  • World from USA Today.
  • World from World Bank.
  • Japan from USA Today.
  • Asia from Asia Online. Daily market close.

    • MONEY RATES

  • USA Today Daily. Treasury securities, savings rates, mortgage rates.

    • MARKET COMMENTARY

  • Prudential Market Commentary: Stocks pre-opening, mid-day, and close, and Bonds pre-opening, mid-day, and close.
  • Gruntal's Weekly Market Summary
  • Online Investment Week News, feature articles and world markets. Archives.
  • The Benham Group's Market Outlook on NETworth.
  • Piper Jaffray Fixed Income Market Comments Daily (or Economic Commentary Monthly).
  • PAWWS Financial Market Outlook
  • Weekly Economic Commentary from Wells Fargo.
  • Daily Newsletter from Bankers Trust.
  • Weekly Economic Memorandum from First Fidelity Bank.
  • Financial Market Strategies Weekly, from Norwest Banks.
  • Weekly Economic Briefing from Bank of America. (also, an International version).
  • Commentary from Morgan Stanley analysts.
  • Dreyfus Weekly Market Commentary
  • Prudential Daily market commentary.
  • Email list Money Daily. Market commentary each day from Money Magazine. To subscribe, send the message subscribe moneydaily yourfirstname yourlastname to listproc@pathfinder.com.
  • Market Beat L.A. Times column.
  • Grant's Interest Rate Observer Economic commentary.
  • The Economeister Market News Service Presents articles from Market News Service, a premier real-time financial information provider covering macroeconomic indicators, monetary policy, U.S. Treasuries and other bond markets, foreign exchange, and derivatives.

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    Indexes
    Charts
    Futures, Options, Commodities
    International
    Bonds and Money Markets
    Currency Converters
    Desktop Tickers
    Portfolio Tracking

    STOCKS AND MUTUAL FUNDS

    Stocks are on 15 minute delay, and mutual funds are daily NAVs. These are all free, and most of them have ticker symbol lookups. Most are slow, especially in the first hour after the market closes.

  • PC Quote 20-minute-delayed stock quotes from the major U.S. exchanges, with ticker symbol search, 5 at a time.
  • CNNfn Stocks, mutual funds, money markets. Good additional data. Very good.
  • Money Magazine from Pathfinder and Quote.com. 5 at a time. Price, change, daily and 52-week highs and lows, volume, P/E ratio, EPS, and dividend per share.
  • DBC Stocks, mutual funds, money market funds, U.S. and world indexes. 7 at a time.
  • Schwab Stocks, mutual funds, options. Quotes, intraday and daily and weekly charts.
  • Security APL
  • Hooked Courtesy of Quote.com.
  • Virgil StockCenter
  • StockMaster Commercial successor to MIT's AI Lab Project.
  • StreetNet Pretty good. 7 at a time. Stocks, mutual funds, money markets, indexes.
  • DBC (also via USA Today) Stocks, mutual funds, money markets, indexes.
  • Wall Street Online
  • Bank Rate Monitor Stocks, mutual funds, money market funds, indexes, commodities.
  • IGuide Stocks and mutual funds.
  • U.S. News and World Report Stocks, mutual funds, indexes.
  • Bulletproof 2 at a time.
  • Disclosure Stocks, charts, indexes, and industry groups.
  • Pacific Brokerage Services
  • E*Trade
  • Merrill Lynch Also market indicators.
  • Lombard Registration required. Stocks, options, charts.
  • QuoteCom Registration required.
  • Investor's Edge 1 at a time. Mediocre.
  • NETworth Registration required. 1 at a time. Also has some portfolio tracking.

    • INDEXES

  • Dow Industrials on 5 minute delay (also here). Stock by Stock breakdown.
  • Dow Transportation Stocks on 5 minute delay (also here). Stock by Stock breakdown.
  • Dow Utilities on 5 minute delay (also here). Stock by Stock breakdown.
  • S&P 500
  • S&P 100
  • MSN Investor Daily.
  • CNNfn Indexes updated every three minutes.
  • Investor's Edge Various indexes.
  • Charts for Dow Industrials, Transportation, Utilities and Composite (end of day).
  • Indexes from Security APL.
  • StockCenter Technology Indexes: Internet, Software, Red Herring 100, Red Herring 250.

    • CHARTS

  • Schwab Stocks, mutual funds, options. Quotes, intraday and daily and weekly charts.
  • S&P 500 from NETworth.
  • S&P 500 from Security APL.
  • S&P 500 Futures from Remedies.
  • Nasdaq Composite from Security APL.
  • Mudit's Trading Desk (also here) Technical analysis charts. Dow, OEX, SPX, and Nasdaq.
  • Lombard Requires registration.
  • Quote.com Requires registration.
  • Currencies from Investment News Online.
  • Commodities Futures from Investment News Online.

    • End of Day

  • InvesTools Stocks, mutual funds, indexes.
  • The Stock Room Graphs and quotes of U.S. and foreign stock indexes, bond yields, metals, currencies, interest rates, technical indicators, and custom graphing options.
  • Futures and Indexes from Remedies.
  • Nasdaq Composite from Security APL.
  • Teleserv charts of 60K stocks.
  • InvestSIG Technical charts.

    • FUTURES, OPTIONS, COMMODITIES

  • Futures and Options from the Chicago Board of Trade.
  • Chicago Mercantile Exchange Currency Prices (10-minute delay), Flash Quotes, and Settlement Prices.
  • Options from DBC Online.
  • Options from Lombard.
  • Robert's Online Option Pricer
  • Commodities from Investment News Online.
  • Commodities from Investor's Galleria.
  • Commodities and Precious Metals from CNNfn.
  • Commodities, Futures and Options from STA Research.
  • Futures from Bloomberg. Twice daily.
  • Futures Daily close from Ira Epstein.
  • Futures Daily close from Jack Carl Futures.
  • Futures Daily close from the Futures and Options Trading Group.
  • Futures Daily close from PitStar.
  • Futures Daily close.
  • Precious Metals
  • Metals Daily close.

    • INTERNATIONAL

  • International Stock Quotes
  • Yahoo International Quotes
  • PC Quote Europe Stocks, futures, indexes.
  • CNNfn World Markets daily closes.
  • Morgan Stanley World Market Indexes daily closes.

    • BONDS, MONEY MARKETS

  • Monetary Quotes
  • CNNfn Currency Markets.
  • CME Currency Futures and Options Up-to-the-minute.
  • Treasury Yield Curves from Bloomberg. Twice daily.
  • Treasury Yield Curve from StockTrader. Updated daily.
  • Treasury Notes and Bond Quotes Daily U.S. bond prices.
  • T-Bill Quotes
  • CNNfn Treasury Market Numbers
  • Municipal Bond Yields from Bloomberg. Twice daily.

    • CURRENCY CONVERTERS, EXCHANGE RATES

  • Cross Currency Rates from Bloomberg. Twice daily.
  • Current Currency Exchange Quotes
  • J. P. Morgan Currency Indexes
  • Daily Currency Rates from the Federal Reserve Bank.
  • Xenon Currency Converter
  • GNN Koblas Currency Converter Updated weekly.
  • Olsen & Associates Currency Converter Recent and historical rates.
  • Foreign Exchange Rates
  • Foreign Exchange Rates from Investment News Online.
  • United Nations Exchange Rates gopher.

    • DESKTOP TICKERS

  • WinStock Excellent. $20 shareware created by Michael Goldsmith. Free unlimited delayed quotes and portfolio management in spreadsheet format. Handles stocks, bonds, mutual funds. Also has alerts.
  • Quote Ticker Bar Free. Similar to WinStock.
  • Desktop Quote Ticker $20.
  • Corel
  • Wayfarer's StockWatcher
  • PointCast Free, but has highly intrusive ads. Delayed.

    • PORTFOLIO TRACKING

  • StockTracker from Virgil Corporation. Portfolio management tool for Windows. Continuously updated delayed quotes. Manages up to 12 different portfolios and up to 200 stocks, and saves intraday historical pricing. Free trial period, free after market closes, fee-based (about $10/month) intraday. Also alerts you if a price reaches a predefined level. U.S. markets only.
  • Net Profit (also here) They will email you custom portfolio of up to 10 stock and mutual fund quotes with the daily close each evening. Up to 35 quotes is $20/year.
  • WallStreetWeb from BulletProof. Java applet. They also have Edge, a Windows program that provides portfolio tracking and alerts, and works with Motorola paging products.
  • ProStream Software that delivers quotes directly to your desktop.
  • Investor's Edge Free, up to 15 stocks and 15 mutual funds.
  • MSN Investor
  • DBC Free, up to 7 (stocks, mutual funds, money markets, and indexes), fractions or decimals. Saves you from typing in the symbols every time you visit the site.
  • CNNfn Portfolio Tracker
  • GrayFire Portfolio tracking. Also have quotes, investment information and news.
  • WebQuote Custom portfolio quotes emailed to you twice a day.
  • WallSt.com Free portfolio tracking.
  • Mercury Mail Closing Bell End-of-day delivery of custom market news and quotes via email, or in spreadsheet-ready format. Free trial offer.
  • International Data Broadcasting Their WatchDog service provides constant real-time monitoring of your investments, and alerts you via alphanumeric pager when targets are triggered.

    • FEE-BASED

  • PC Quote Real time quotes start at $23/month.
  • DBC Real time quotes, $30/month.
  • InterQuote Real time, continuously updated for $70/month. 15-minute delay for $20/month, end-of-day for $45/year. 15-day free trial offer.
  • PAWWS
  • MoneyLine Corporation Free trial offer.
  • Quoteline
  • QuoTrek
  • Daily Close Stock and Mutual Funds in Quicken Format.

    • Tip: In general, all you get for free is a couple delayed quotes at a time. If you own or follow many stocks, you may want to consider getting a basic portfolio tracking package. If you are an active trader, or have a large portfolio, you may want to consider paying for real time quotes. If you find that you're paying a lot for real time quotes, consider opening an online trading account with Schwab, Fidelity or Lombard, and get them free.

  • MSN Business News from Reuters
  • Yahoo's Business News from Reuters.
  • Business Wire Headlines Very complete, but includes many less-than-noteworthy events. Also available on Yahoo.
  • PR Newswire Very complete, but includes many less-than-noteworthy events. Also available on Yahoo.
  • USA Today Money Also the Front Page of the Money section.
  • Investor's Business Daily Very good. Requires registration.
  • Top Business and Finance News from Bloomberg (also here).
  • Investor's Edge
  • NewsPage's Financial Services and Investment Section
  • ClariNet Top 10 Business Stories from Reuters. Concise.
  • Reuters Business Summary
  • Deseret Business News
  • CNNfn News in a Hurry
  • CNN Financial Network (also here) from Knight-Ridder.
  • Data Broadcasting Headlines (also here).
  • Merrill Lynch News
  • US News & World Report Money page.
  • LA Times Business
  • New York Times Financial Section Requires registration.
  • Financial Times News in Brief
  • Fortune Business Report
  • Wire Reports from Trib.Com. Also, their Money section.
  • Knight-Ridder Financial News
  • LeadStory from AT&T Business Network. Mediocre.
  • Others: NandoNet, Pathfinder Business News, Reuters Business News Summary.

    • Updated daily

  • Motley Fool's Evening News Excellent.
  • Money Magazine Daily Recap (requires RealAudio)
  • Nando Times Daily financial report.
  • Newsbytes
  • UPI Business News
  • InternetMCI Business Update.
  • Standard and Poor's Today's Headlines
  • Wall Street Journal Each night, tomorrow's front page. Requires registration.
  • Bank Rate Monitor Daily news. Mediocre.

    • WORLD BUSINESS NEWS

  • WWW World News Today - Business Daily.
  • Business Monitor (UK) International.
  • Knight-Ridder World Headlines. (also, from Tokyo and London).
  • Yahoo International Business News
  • USA Today Money World News.
  • Asia-Pacific Financial News
  • Asian News
  • Asian Business News Daily.
  • Singapore Times
  • Singapore Business Times
  • Nikkei Net Business
  • Newsbytes Pacifica

    • Even More Business News