Web links

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Blogs

• 24/7 Wall St. Analysis and commentary for the US and global equity investor.
• AdAge Power150: Todd Andrlik ranks the top media and marketing blogs
• The Business Ethics Blog
• Canadian Capitalist
• The Dividend Guy. "One Guy's Journey to Passive Income Through Dividend Investing"
• Footnoted.org Reviews the notes of company filings.
• Fortune 500 Business Blogs . A directory of Fortune 500 companies that have active blogs written by company employees.
• Harvard Business Blogs
• Infectious Greed by Paul Kedrosky. Technology, finance, venture capital and the money culture.
• TechFinance.ca
• Trader Mike
• Wall Street Journal. Deal Journal

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Careers and interview tips

• Best employers for recent graduates
• Canada's Top 100 Employers
• Case Interview Tools and Resources for Job-Seekers. “Tools and resources for case interviews, where the job-seeker is asked to analyze a situation in a short timeframe.” Includes links to company sites with information about case-interview preparation, and practice and interactive cases.
• GlassDoor.com. Position specific salary details, and reviews for more than 26,000 companies, including some in Canada. User contributed information.
• Globe & Mail - Careers
• mbajobs.ca - "MBAjobs.ca caters to employers who are looking for highly skilled and educated professionals who have expertise in areas such as finance, accounting, operations, project management, business development, HR, marketing, public policy management, engineering...etc."
• The Riley Guide
• Wall Street Journal - Careers
• Wetfeet Career Resource Site

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Companies, stocks, investing and pensions

• Alacra Pulse. "analyst comments from the news and combines them with commentary from influential bloggers, credit and industry analysts"
• Barron's
• Bloomberg.com
• BusinessWeek. Companies.
• Company Directories. Industry Canada.
• Company Insights. BusinessWeek. Includes information for 42,000 public and 322,000 private companies worldwide. (Enter company name in search box in upper right-hand corner).
• EDGAR . SEC Filings & Forms
• Financial Post Magazine
• FT.com Marketsdata. "Markets Data provides the latest stock market research information, including the latest data and charts for equities, commodities, currencies, bonds and rates. Dig deeper into the news with comprehensive data, analysis and advanced tools" for 35,000 companies from around the world.
• globeinvestor.com (Globe & Mail)
• Google Finance Canada. Canada's newspaper for investment advisors.
• Pensions & Investments. The international newspaper of money management.
• Rotman International Journal of Pension Management
• SEDAR . Canadian Company Filings.
• US Private Companies: Research and Analysis

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Country information

• CIA World Factbook
• Country Insights. "Go beyond the do's and don'ts". Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada.
• Country and 'doing business' guides. Deloitte.
• Country Commercial Guides. Also market research guides. United States and Foreign Commercial Service.
• Country Risk Ratings Select a country to view its business climate, credit rating, statistics and comparisons. Country reports can be downloaded.
• Doing Business. Rankings. Economies are ranked on their ease of doing business, from 1 – 181. The rankings are from the Doing Business 2010 report, covering the period June 2008 through May 2009.
• Federation of International Trade Associations . More than 8,000 annotated and indexed links to international trade, import and export sites.
• LABORSTA Internet. Labour statistics for more than 200 countries. International Labor Office, Department of Statistics.
• World Bank. Data, statistics and reports for more than 100 countries.

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Dictionaries, glossaries and encyclopedias

• Business Directories. Free access to the following Gale directories: Business Plans; Encyclopedia of Business; Encyclopedia of Business and Finance; Encyclopedia of Major Marketing Campaigns; Encyclopedia of Management; Encyclopedia of Small Business; International Directory of Business Biographies; International Directory of Company Histories; and The Oxford Dictionary of Economics.
• Investopedia. Forbes. Database of over 7,000 terms.
• InvestorWords.com
• Martindale's Business, Management and Economics Center. Calculators, Spreadsheets, etc.
• Online Glossary. Canadian Bankers Association. Click on 'Glossary' from top menu.

Historic newspapers

• Google News Archive. Search digitized, historic newspaper pages, including the New York Times, some dating back more than 200 years.

Markets & industries

• Business information by industry for Ontario. Service Ontario.
• BusinessWeek. Industry News.
• Google Finance Canada
• Google Finance - Domestic Trends. Track Google search traffic across specific sectors of the economy.
• International Market Research Reports (IMRR) . Reports from the U.S. Department of Commerce. Industry Canada.
• Investopedia (Forbes). Stock simulator, articles,articles, dictionary, variety of investment and finance calculators and exam prep (including the Canadian Securities Course).
• Market Research by Industry. "..detailed market research for a range of industries for key markets around the world". Reports include Canada. New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE).
• Market Research Library. U.S. Commercial Service. Market research report for countries around the globe.
• Marketing Charts. Approximately 2,500 charts and data files related to marketing. Data can be downloaded in Excel format.
• Marketplace. American Public media.
• ResearchWikis Market research, from U.S. government sources and public domain sites,for hundreds of industries and topics.
• Statements. Articles of interest to accounting and finance professionals. Certified General Accountants of Ontario.
• ThomasNet "find manufacturers, distributors and service providers - from Actuators to Zirconium and everything in between" for Canada and the United States.
• Toronto Industry Profiles Economic Development Division of the City of Toronto

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Rankings

• Doing Business. Economies are ranked on their ease of doing business, from 1 – 181. The rankings are from the Doing Business 2010 report, covering the period June 2008 through May 2009.
• Forbes Lists. Including 400 Best Big Companies, World's 2,000 Largest Companies, World's Top 50 Microfinance Institutions.
• Fortune 500. Fortune's annual list of America's largest corporations. (2010)
• Fortune's 100 Fastest Growing Companies. (2008)
• Global Powers of Retailing 2011. Includes listing top 10 companies by geographic area.
• Investor 500. Canadian Business. Can sort list by rank, or alphabetically. 2010
• Good for businesss: Corporate Social Responsibility report 2010
• Profit 100 Canada's Fastest-Growing Companies. 2010.
• The Tech 100. BusinessWeek. 2010.
• The Tech 100. Canadian Business. 2009.
• Top 25 IT Multinationals. 2010.
• World's Most Admired Companies. 2010. Fortune.
• The World's Most Innovative Companies. 2010. FastCompany.

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Statistics

• 2012 Statistical Abstract. U.S. Census Bureau. "statistics for the world as a whole and for many countries on a comparative basis with the United States. Data are shown for population, births and deaths, social and industrial indicators, finances, agriculture, communication, and military affairs."
• American FactFinder. U.S. Census Bureau.
• Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Includes economic research, data and statistics. Banking information and regulation, Federal Reserve Bulletin, and monetary policy information, reports and board updates.
• Bureau of Economic Analysis. U.S. Department of Commerce.
• Canadian business patterns. 1988-2010
• The Daily. Statistics Canada.
• Economic Research & Data. Statistics, including historic data. Can download custom datasets for spreadsheet use. Federal Reserve Systems.
• Economic Research. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Economic data and statistics, including historic, research, working papers and articles.
• European Union statistics.
• Industry Snapshots. U.S. Census Bureau. "New 2007 Economic Census data are featured in Industry Snapshots for 2- and 3-digit NAICS and for selected detailed industries."
• National Bureau of Economic Research . Macro, industry, international trade, demographic, patent and other U.S. data, including historic.
• Statistical Yearbook for Asia and the Pacific 2011 (PDF)
• Statistics Canada Online Catalogue.
• Statistics by Subject. Statistics Canada.
• UNdata. A world of information.
• U.S. International Trade Statistics. U.S. Census Bureau.
• World Development Indicators 2010 People, Environment, Economy, States and Markets

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