1. 1 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, Krakow, Poland isabina@inib.uj.edu.plisabina@inib.uj.edu.pl, sabina.cisek@gmail.comsabina.cisek@gmail.com

2. 2 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!

3. 3 Financial information in general-purpose search engines Google Finance: http://finance.google.com/finance http://finance.google.com/finance MSN money: http://moneycentral.msn.com/home.asp http://moneycentral.msn.com/home.asp Yahoo! Finance: http://finance.yahoo.com/ http://finance.yahoo.com/

4. 4 Securities, stock exchanges, quotes NYSE, New York Stock Exchange http://www.nyse.com/home.html http://www.nyse.com/home.html Quote.com http://new.quote.com/http://new.quote.com/ U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission – Investor Information http://www.sec.gov/investor.shtml http://www.sec.gov/investor.shtml World Federation of Exchanges http://www.world- exchanges.org/WFE/home.Asp http://www.world- exchanges.org/WFE/home.Asp

5. 5 Currencies, currency converters OANDA, The Currency Site http://www.oanda.com http://www.oanda.com FXConverter – multilingual currency converter for over 164 currencies and 3 metals http://www.oanda.com/convert/classic http://www.oanda.com/convert/classic Universal Currency Converter http://www.xe.com/ucc/ http://www.xe.com/ucc/

6. 6 Dictionaries, glossaries and investor education Investopedia http://www.investopedia.com/ http://www.investopedia.com/ NYSE – Glossary http://www.nyse.com/glossary/Glossary.h tml http://www.nyse.com/glossary/Glossary.h tml NYSE – Investor Education: http://www.nyse.com/about/education/102 2630233386.html http://www.nyse.com/about/education/102 2630233386.html

7. 7 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?