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Business InformationModule 2: Seeking for business information
– Web-based information resourcesPart C: Financial information
International Summer School on Information Literacy, funded by CEI, 10-14 September 2007, Fermo, Italy
Sabina Cisek, PhDAssociate Professor
Institute of Information and Library Science Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
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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!
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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/
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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.world-exchanges.org/WFE/home.Asp
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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/
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Dictionaries, glossaries and investor education
• Investopedia http://www.investopedia.com/
• NYSE – Glossary http://www.nyse.com/glossary/Glossary.html
• NYSE – Investor Education: http://www.nyse.com/about/education/1022630233386.html
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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?
