American Finance Association, "The American Finance Association (AFA) is the premier academic organization devoted to the study and promotion of knowledge about financial economics." From their website.
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, "The mission of the SEC is to protect investors; maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets; and facilitate capital formation. The SEC strives to promote a market environment that is worthy of the public's trust." From their website.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation- Bank Financial Reports, Bank data & Statistic.
Investment Company Institute, provides information regarding research and data on trends in the investment company industry.
Complete World Development Report Online, From the World Bank Group; The WBG Data section offers access to approximately 2,000 indicators in Arabic, English, French, and Spanish. Users may view data for The World at a Glance and by country, topic, and indicators.
North American Industry Classification System, NAICS was "developed jointly by the U.S., Canada and Mexico to provide new comparability in statistics about business activity across North America."
The Public Register, From Bay Tact Corporation, provides free annual reports, prospectuses, and 10Ks for public companies. See also Annual Reports Service above. For both services submission of an order to view the annual report means that users are consenting to their data being transferred to the provider of the selected annual report.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, The Federal Reserve, the central bank of the United States, provides the nation with a safe, flexible, and stable monetary and financial system.
International Monetary Fund: Country Information, Choice Highly Recommended site; information on 188 countries.
U. S. Department of the Treasury, Choice Outstanding site; the main organizational scheme does an admirable job of streamlining navigation of this vast organization. The six horizontal menu items directly mirror the Treasury's primary areas of focus: Coins and Currency, Economy, Illicit Finance, Financial Markets, International, and Taxes. The horizontal menu bar provides ready access to supporting information and popular links. A search box is consistently located throughout the site and provides advanced search options as well as the ability to sort results by relevancy or date. Material is reliably dated, a particularly helpful feature for researchers.
World Bank Open Data, a completely new Open Data initiative which for the first time allows Web access to the bank's vast collection of economic, social, population, and development data with no restrictions and at no cost.
World Trade Organization, The World Trade Organization is the only global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations.