News, Sports, and Reviews

Sports

• ESPN SportsZone
• Fox Sports
• Sports Information Server
• Nando Sports, and their 49er page and Giants page
• Italian and European Soccer

Newspapers

• International Newspapers
  • El Pais, News from Spain (in Spanish)
  • La Vanguardia More news from Spain (in Spanish)
  • La Stampa, News from Italy (in Italian)
• National Newspapers
  • PBS Newshour
  • Nando Times
  • USA Today
  • Chicago Tribute, impressive
  • New York Times
• Capital District Newspapers
  • Times Union, Albany, NY
  • The Gazette, Schenectady, NY
  • The Record, Troy, NY
• Bay Area Newspapers
  • SF Chronicle
  • San Jose Mercury News, good, but much requires money
  • San Francisco Free Press
  • Gina Smith's silicon valley gossip
  • Bay Area Newspapers, Magazines and Newsgroups
  • Palo Alto Weekly has local movie and restaurant reviews
• Others
  • The Utne Lens, best of alternative press
  • Progressive news services

Business News

• Stock Screening Sites (free services) - [From Business Week 9/22/97]
  • ALPHACHART Good variables for technical analysis; screens yield only ticker symbols (5,000 stocks, 19 vars.)
  • HOOVER'S STOCKSCREENER Good choice of variables; easy to use; results come in non-exportable spreadsheets (8,000 stocks, 22 vars.)
  • I.Q. NET Only basic service is free; few free variables; mixes technical and fundamental criteria (10,000 stocks, 100 vars. - premium service)
  • MARKETGUIDE Easy links to complete company reports; measures growth only over three year periods (9,800 stocks, 20 vars.) periods.
  • MARKETPLAYER Past and projected profits; arcane search terms (3,600 stocks, 75 vars.)
  • MORNINGSTAR.NET Intelligent variable selections - few vars. (8,000 stocks, 12 vars.)
  • QUICKEN NETWORTH Some unusual variables, such as insider holdings; many crude vars; prices updated monthly (12,000 stocks, 19 vars.)
  • RESEARCHMAG.COM Portfolio analyzer; tricky to use (10,000 stocks, 21 vars.)
  • STOCKTOOLS Large number of stocks; less historical price data (36,000 stocks, 12 vars.)
  • WALL STREET RESEARCH NET searches by key market indexes; few vars. (8,000 stocks, 17 vars.)
  
  
• Cool Web Tools (according to Newsweek 8/11/97)
  • Getting motivated
  • Getting Money for College
  • Morningstar Finding the right fund
  • Stock shopping
  • Checking charts Design your own chart
  • Stock shopping
  • Tracking a portfolio
  • Social Security Get an estimate of your benefits
• NETworth, Mutual Funds, advice, and their Stock Quotes and graphs, my favorite.
• Lombard investment center, also
  • Lombard public quotes, including options (only option quotes I've found)
  • on-line trading
• Schwab web trading
• Chicago Tribute Stocks and Exchange Rates
• Exchange Rates
• Hoover's Online, business and stock info
• Mutual Funds Charts
• Mutual Funds Markets
• Stock Quotes, 1 usual symbol for preferred. Slow.
• Money & Investing,Wall Street Journal
• Mutual Funds Magazine
• Fidelity, 401(k) and 403(b) retirement plans with interactive retirement planning worksheets
• Vanguard Mutual Funds

Specialized News

• Pathfinder, Time, Sports Illustrated, and Money Magazines
• Men's Issues
• Next time the ground shakes, look here for the latest Earthquake Info, or Hot USGS News on Earthquakes.
• ZIff-Davis PC publications.

TV News

• CNN Interactive, their Political coverage for the primaries
• NBC
• CBS Television Home Page

Medicine

• National Committee for Quality Assurance, rates HMOs
• Alternative Medicine Homepage, Univ. of Pittsburg
• Homeopathy Home Page
• Gerson Therapy

Author: Piero P. Bonissone bonissone@crd.ge.com