Business Resources: Finance

Value Line

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Whether you’re a student learning about investing or a veteran investor looking for high-impact investment ideas, Value Line offers reliable, unbiased business finance and intelligence information.  Analysis data, investor intelligence tools, industry rankings, and analyst reports are available in this resource.

Federal Reserve System

The Federal Reserve System is the central bank of the United States. It performs five general functions to promote the effective operation of the U.S. economy and, more generally, the public interest:

• conducts the nation’s monetary policy to promote maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate long-term interest rates in the U.S. economy
• promotes the stability of the financial system and seeks to minimize and contain systemic risks
• promotes the safety and soundness of individual financial institutions and monitors their impact on the financial system as a whole;
• fosters payment and settlement system safety and efficiency through services to the banking industry and the U.S. government that facilitate U.S.-dollar transactions and payments; and
• promotes consumer protection and community development through consumer-focused supervision and examination, research and analysis.

Bloomberg

This resource offers quality and trusted financial news content with some free access to the following general financial market information:

• commodities
• stocks
• interest rates and bonds
• currencies
• stock futures
• economics
• fixed income securities
• ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds)