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, PhD Associate Professor Institute of Information and Library Science Jagiellonian University , Krak o w, Poland [email_address] , [email_address]

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!

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!

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/

Google Finance: http://finance.google.com/finance

MSN money: http://moneycentral.msn.com/home.asp

Yahoo! Finance: http://finance.yahoo.com/

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

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

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 /

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 /

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

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

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?

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?