Starting
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REFERENCE BOOKS -
Available for your use in the library, these books cannot be
checked out. |
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On Financial Desk |
Directory of
Obsolete Securities |
Brief profiles of banks
& businesses whose names have
been lost due to name change, mergers and acquisitions,
dissolution, reorganization, & bankruptcy. |
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On Financial Desk |
Mergent Industrial Manuals
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Company histories including name changes
& dates. Use the
blue index. Contains information on transfer agents, auditors,
shareholders and annual meetings. |
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At Reference Desk |
Hoover’s Handbook of Private Companies |
Profiles of 900 major non-public companies, including in-depth
histories for 200 of the largest or most influential. |
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International Directory of Company Histories |
Detailed narrative
histories of hundreds of companies (including name changes)
along with side-barred contact information, sales figures,
company perspectives, key dates, and more. Cumulative index
included in latest volume. |
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At Reference Desk |
New York Times – Year-End Closing Prices;
Wall Street
Journal - Year-End Closing Prices |
Closing
figures for the last day of trading for the previous year.
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On Financial Desk |
Standard & Poor’s
Monthly Bond Guide
Standard & Poor’s Monthly Stock Guide |
Monthly stats for thousands of bonds.
Monthly stats for thousands of stocks. |
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On Financial Desk |
Standard & Poor's Stock Market Encyclopedia;
Mergent's Handbook of Common Stocks |
Quarterly detailed overviews on thousands of stocks. |
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On Financial Desk |
Value Line Products |
The Library subscribes to Small and Mid-Cap Edition, Mutual Fund
Survey, Investment Survey, and Investment Survey Selection & Opinion
newsletter. |
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FINDING BOOKS AND OTHER LIBRARY MATERIALS/
Dewey Decimal browsing numbers:
332.6 |
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In
addition to reference books, you may want to search for other books
and materials (videos, audiobooks, etc.) on your topic. The best way
to find good sources of information is to do a subject search
in our Library catalog. You can
access the Library’s online catalog from the Library or home by
going to our Web page (www.wppl.org),
then to Search Our Catalog.
Good
subject headings for this topic are big
business – history; bonds; investments;
securities; stocks.
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eBOOKS
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You may also
want to check out the collection of thousands of online books (eBooks)
the Library offers, located on the Web site
www.netlibrary.com. Initially, you must open an account from Library computer terminals,
but you will then be able to use the account from home as well. See a reference librarian for more details.
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FINDING ARTICLES
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The following sources can be used to find magazine articles dealing
with your topic:
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The Readers’ Guide to
Periodical Literature - Adult Reference
R 050 R
Search for articles on a subject within any given year.
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EBSCOhost
and
InfoTrac
OneFile
- Access from the Library or at home using
your library card number at
www.wppl.org.
Search for full text articles on these online databases using your
choice of keywords. You can limit your search to a certain year
or even a certain magazine.
The following database may be
particularly helpful:
Business & Co. Resource Center
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Detailed company performances, industry events
& trends, management, economics and politics, broker research reports, trade
publications, newspapers, journals and company directory
listings with full text and images available.
See also
New York Times – Historical Online for stock
quotes and/or other financial information, 1851 to 2003.
The New York Times 1985-present can be accessed via
Orlando Sentinel & America’s Newspapers. |
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WEBSITES
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Big
Charts |
Includes quotes, news,
industries, markets, historical quotes, big reports and more. |
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Edgar
(SEC Filings and Forms) |
Registration
statements, periodic reports, and other forms of all foreign
and domestic companies. |
| Stocks & Bonds |
A stocks and bonds primer and the basics
of investing. |
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See also WPPL’s
Business & Personal Finance Page. |
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cmoore@wppl.org
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Updated:
December 11, 2007 Copyright (C) 2008 Winter Park Public Library. All rights reserved.
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