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CONSUMER AFFAIRS * ADVERTISING & PUBLIC RELATIONS * INVESTMENTS
Better Business Bureau - includes the to check out a company or charity.
Class Actions (CENTRAL NOTICE) - Listing of Class Actions and Lawsuits to Recover Money and Protect - Your Rights By Private Citizens and Government Agencies
Consumer alerts - on financial fraud, including pyramid schemes, loan fraud, and other scams (Florida Comptrollers' Office)
Consumer Information Center - Those free federal government consumer publications
Consumer Reports Buying Guide Online
Consumer.TheLinks.com - Consumer and Consumer Protection
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Consumer World - Links to all sorts of web sites with consumer information, including news, agencies, directories, buying guides, bargains, scams, etc.
Food and Drug Administration - latest official FDA information, including weekly recall information, seizure items, prosecution actions, injunction actions, health fraud notices, complete text of the Drug and Device Product Approvals lists, responses to current questions arising as a result of news stories, ...
Internet Advocacy Center (California Alliance for Consumer Protection) - Links to hundreds of consumer and lobbying groups around the country
National Fraud Information Center
Weiss Ratings, Inc. - consumer advocate for financial safety. Ratings (most updated quarterly) on the financial strength of more than 16,000 institutions -- nearly all life, health and annuity insurers, property and casualty insurers, HMOs, Blue Cross/Blue Shield plans, banks, and savings & loans plus most large brokerage firms.
Product Recalls etc (CENTRAL NOTICE) - class actions, auto recalls, product recalls, financial notices, consumer help.
Public Citizen - Formed by Ralph Nader in 1971 to support the work of citizen advocates - Site contains information about health care, energy, trade, and legislative issues
U.S. Consumer Gateway: Home Page
Children and the Media - Threats to Children from Online Marketing, Center for Media Education
PR CENTRAL REPUTATION MANAGEMENT - great source for finding organizations that have primary data for reporters.
A Public Relations Paradise - PR Web
CNN / Money Magazine - News, and investment aids.
COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION (CFTC)
Douglas Gerlach's Links - A Financial Web Directory - "new, interesting, helpful, offbeat, or essential web sites related to investing and personal finance" (formerly Invest-o-Rama)
Initial Public Offerings Glossary
International Federation of Stock Exchanges (FIBV) - Member Exchanges' information includes address, phone, fax, logo, Web site link, trading hours, market holidays, representatives, and trading halts
Investment Adviser Public Disclosure - SEC- and state-registered investment advisor firms' most recent Form ADV, containing info on the firm's operations, personnel, and disciplinary actions. There are also links to related sites, such as state regulators and the Central Registration Depository Public Disclosure on the Internet.
Investopedia.com - Investment Education for Everyone - dictionary and encyclopedia to understand investment basics.
InvestorLinks - One of many comprehensive investor research sites, with links to brokers, commodities/futures info., company info., exchanges, global markets, mutual funds, options, quotes and charts, research and data, stock talk, ...
The Investor Relations Information Network (IRIN) - PDF annual reports (currently limited to small number of companies)
InvestorWords - Investing Glossary
IPO Central - The Ultimate Source of IPO Information (Hoovers) - Beginners guide, news, scorecard, filings, ... Some features are for subscribers only.
IPO Maven - site tracks Initial Public Offerings (U.S. companies) 1995 to present. Also has interviews with CEOs
Kiplinger Online - publication
Morningstar.net - Unbiased help for successful investing - "leading provider of mutual fund, stock, and variable-insurance investment information." Site has news and information on stocks, mutual funds, market quotes and analysis, plus 401(K) news and advice and information on the newest investment package, ETFs.
The Motley Fool: Finance and Folly - As seen on AOL
The Mutual Fund Investor's Center
Mutual Funds Interactive(sm) -- THE Mutual Funds Home Page(sm)
National Association of Securities Dealers - Info. about the NASD and NASDAQ, press releases and speeches, stock quotes, link to NASD Regulation, Inc., including info. about the broker/dealer Public Disclosure Program, and more. The Central Registration Depository database is not available online, but you can request a report
NASD Regulation-Recent Enforcement Actions
North American Securities Administrators Association - Trade association for state and provincial securities administrators/regulators, includes press releases, enforcement statistics, speeches and testimony, investor alerts, and more.
SocialFunds.com - Socially responsible investing information concerning corporations, mutual funds, ...
Stockz.com: Money, Markets, and More...
Wall Street Research Net - News for investors. Some areas are for members only.
Yahoo! Finance - Ticker Symbol Lookup - Site provides listings of insider trading
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