Click on the Learn tab and you will find numerous short videos on different finance topics.
Bloomberg is a very important source of market information for many finance professionals. While full access to Bloomberg is by subscription, the free website is still a great source of market information.
The CBOE is the primary exchange for trading options on major stocks. The VIX determines the implied volatility of the S&P 500 based on the price of traded options.
The Chicago Board of Trade is the primary exchange for the trade or commodities and commodity related derivatives contracts.
CME describes its electronic trading system as: The CME Globex platform, the first global electronic trading system for futures and options, has evolved to become the world's premier marketplace for derivatives trading. With continual enhancements, the platform has effectively enabled CME, already known for innovation, to transform itself into a leading high-tech, global financial derivatives exchange."
This is CNN's finance website. On this website CNN reports both financial news and market data.
This is Professor Aswath Damodaran's website. He is a finance professor at NYU. His website is full of great resources for finance students, including webcasts of his classes and several excellent books on finance, which he has authored. You can download his books at no charge.
The Financail Times is a well respected London based source of world economic and financial information.
Professor Jim Mahar of St. Bonaventure University has created this website for finance students. Among other materials, he has included podcasts of several classes in which he covers numerous topics.
This is the website, which acompanies the book entitled The Flaw of Averages. This website provides information on common statistical mistakes made by businesses, and also provides information on the use of computer simulations, which use probability distributions rather than specific numbers as the basis for simulations.
This website specializes in information relating to derivatives markets and related news.
Google has put together an excellent resource for locating financial information of publicly traded corporations.
This is a very important organization in the derivatives industry. The website decribes the organization as follows:
ISDA, which represents participants in the privately negotiated derivatives industry, is the largest global financial trade association, by number of member firms. ISDA was chartered in 1985, and today has over 850 member institutions from 56 countries on six continents. These members include most of the world's major institutions that deal in privately negotiated derivatives, as well as many of the businesses, governmental entities and other end users that rely on over-the-counter derivatives to manage efficiently the financial market risks inherent in their core economic activities.
This website is an excellent source of data on GOLD prices.
For a free website, this site offers incredibliy detailed market information, including implied and historical volatilities for stock options.
Taleb is the author of two well know books: Fooled by Randomness and Black Swans. Taleb is good at pointing out some of the serious flaws in finance theory. The made his money by betting that extreme events happens more often than finance models generally predits.
NYMEX provides markets for the trading and clearing of crude oil, gasoline, heating oil, natural gas, electricity, propane, coal, uranium, environmental commodities, softs, gold, silver, copper, aluminum, platinum, and palladium. Many different types of options are also available for most of these products, including options on the price differentials between crude oil and its products (crack spreads), various futures contract months (calendar spreads), and European- and Asian-style options.
This does much more than simply provide you with the price it also allows you to analyze option in several different ways and provides a graphical view of the results.
From the people who gave us RealClearPolitics, we have RealClearMarkets. This is a great source for articles on finance related issues. It is also a great website for monitoring world financial markets (click on Market Data).
Reuters is a well known and well respected source of financial news and information.
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Exchange Commission (SEC)
EDGAR is the SEC's online search engine for all filings with the SEC. This is a very important source of information on publicly traded corporations.
Good investing website. It is also the source or great articles on economics and finance.
This is a good source of economic and market news. Although you are likely to encounter some subscription only pages on the website.
This is Paul Wilmott's website on Quantitative Finance. Paul Wilmott is a well known author in this area. The website includes articles, videos and forums on quantitative finance.
Great source for current exchange rates. It will also allow you to create charts showing changes in exchange rates over time.
Yahoo has a well deserved reputation for providing access to large amounts of finance related information.