3pco's Guide to Business Resources

General

• 1-800 Directory
  
• Business News from Reuters at Yahoo
  
• BigYellow
  Nynex's phone directory, searchable by yellow page heading, company name or phone number. Contains approximately 16 million listings.
• Council of Better Business Bureaus, Inc.
  Provides information on marketplace ethics, alternative dispute resolution, advertising self-regulation and more.
• The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation
  Information Services.
• Federal Express Corp.
  The home page for FedEx. If you have your airbill number, you can track your package here, 24 hours a day.
• Hoover's Online
  Hoover's MasterList Plus database provides useful information on thousands of companies.
• Mass. Office of Consumer Affairs
  Has some useful consumer credit information, among other things. Some of the information pertains to the state of Massachusetts only.
• MicroPatent
  Obtain patent information on a free and fee basis.
• Nolo Press
  Nolo publishes books and software on consumer law subjects, and also provides legal information to small business.
• Small Business Administration (SBA)
  Information about starting, financing, and expanding your business.
• The Thomas Register
  The Register is currently offering a free trial subscription to their database containing information on 150,000+ U.S. and Canadian manufacturing companies.
• UPS and UPS Package Tracking
  
• U.S. Business Advisor
  
• U.S. Postal Service
  Hopefully this site will develop more interactive features, such as the ability to purchase stamps online and make address changes.
• Zip+4 Lookup
  Very handy for looking up zip codes.

Banks and Banking

• BankAmerica Corp.
  
• Citicorp/Citibank
  
• Credit Union Land - A searchable index of credit unions.
  
• First Union Corporation
  Offers secured online credit card applications for the bank's Gold Mastercard.
• First Virtual Holdings
  The world's first electronic merchant banker. FV is a financial services company created specifically to enable anyone with Internet access to buy and sell information (anything that can be delivered electronically) worldwide using the Internet.
• MasterCard International Inc.
  
• Sanwa Bank California - Full electronic banking on the Web.
  
• Security First Network Bank
  The first full-service Internet bank.
• U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
  
• Visa International Inc.
  
• Wells Fargo & Co.
  Oct. 18: Merger with First Interstate Bank announced.
• World Bank - for an international perspective..
  

Finance and Investments

• AMEX
  The American Stock Exchange was the first U.S. stock market on the Web.
• Briefing
  A financial market analysis service, providing market, economic and political forecasts.
• Charles Schwab Online, well-known discount broker.
  
• CNNfn
  Get the past 48 hours worth of stories from CNNfn, including market numbers, and much, much more.
• Dana Commercial Credit Corporation
  A major leasing and credit company, DCC is a subsidiary of Dana Corp., one of the nation's 100 largest businesses.
• Digital Ink - Free stock quotes and financial information.
  
• Fidelity Investments
  
• FinanceNet
  This Federal Government site is filled with useful information. It has links to other federal and state government sites. This is a keeper - a top Web site!
• Financial Services Technology Consortium (FSTC)
  The FSTC is a consortium of financial services providers, national laboratories, universities, and government agencies working to develop electronic checks and electronic commerce.
• FINWeb
  Another valuable resource for locating financial information available on the Net.
• Fortune Magazine
  
• GNN/Koblas Currency Converter
  
• InvestorWEB
  Provides a comprehensive index of all publicly held companies with an Internet presence.
• Merrill Lynch
  Information on investments and personal and business financial strategies.
• Money Magazine Online
  
• Mutual Funds Online
  
• NAFTAnet
  News and information about electronic commerce, electronic data interchange (EDI), international trade, NAFTA and the Americas.
• PC Quote - Free stock quotes.
  
• QuoteCom Home Page - Free (for limited use) stock quotes
  
• SEC - Free access to thousands of documents.
  
• Security APL Inc. or directly to their Quote Server for more stock quotes.
  
• Smith Barney Wall Street Watch
  This brokerage firm provides historical stock prices, price/earnings ratios, weekly investment headlines and feature articles.
• TIPnet
  Services for professional and individual investors, including real-time stock quotes. Members can access financial data for stocks, mutual funds, industry groups, market indexes, options, bonds, futures, and commodities. Subscription rates range from $9.95 to $34.95 per month.
• WSJ Money & Investing Update
  The Wall Street Journal's online publication offers continuously updated news and analysis of the world's markets.
• Yahoo - Economy - if all of the above isn't enough...