Business Information Module 2: Seeking for business information – Web-based information resources Part C: Financial information International Summer School on Information Literacy, funded by CEI, 10 -14 September 2007, Fermo, Italy Sabina Cisek, Ph. D Associate Professor Institute of Information and Library Science Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland isabina@inib. uj. edu. pl, sabina. cisek@gmail. com 1
Financial information • Financial information ≠ company finance • Financial information = investment information • Financial info: stock exchanges, quotes, charts; financial instruments – securities, bonds, shares, etc. ; investment funds; bank products, credits; currencies, money, rates of exchange; insurance, retirement • To understand financial information one needs to know specialized, technical terminology – importance of glossaries! 2
Financial information in general-purpose search engines • Google Finance: http: //finance. google. com/finance • MSN money: http: //moneycentral. msn. com/home. asp • Yahoo! Finance: http: //finance. yahoo. com/ 3
Securities, stock exchanges, quotes • NYSE, New York Stock Exchange http: //www. nyse. com/home. html • Quote. com http: //new. quote. com/ • U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission – Investor Information http: //www. sec. gov/investor. shtml • World Federation of Exchanges http: //www. worldexchanges. org/WFE/home. Asp 4
Currencies, currency converters • OANDA, The Currency Site http: //www. oanda. com • FXConverter – multilingual currency converter for over 164 currencies and 3 metals http: //www. oanda. com/convert/classic • Universal Currency Converter http: //www. xe. com/ucc/ 5
Dictionaries, glossaries and investor education • Investopedia http: //www. investopedia. com/ • NYSE – Glossary http: //www. nyse. com/glossary/Glossary. h tml • NYSE – Investor Education: http: //www. nyse. com/about/education/102 2630233386. html 6
Assignment – understanding basic financial information jargon. Work individually or in pairs. • Find and read definitions of: – – – bond FOREX mutual fund quote stock ticker symbol • Are you able to find definitions of financial terms in your language? How would you do this? What would be your search strategy? 7
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