A Brief Guide to Investing: Resources

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EMMA is the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board's database for all information pertaining to municipal bonds.

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority is dedicated to investor protection and market integrity through effective and efficient regulation of broker-dealers. Their website provides resources concerning oversight as well as investor education.

This is the National Association of U.S. Investment Companies. Here you can get statistical data on retirement plans and investors in the investment company industry as well as news releases and information on the fund industry (closed-end funds, mutual funds, ETFs etc.)

The SEC's website, with regulatory information, news, and the EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval) database of filings for public companies.

This comprehensive tool was created to connect investor's with the tools they need. This resource provides data, which is powered by Morningstar, on equities and options, bonds, and mutual funds. The bonds portion have the center contains descriptive data on U.S. Treasury, Agency, Corporate and Municipal Bonds, Credit Rating Information from major rating agencies, and price information with real-time transaction prices for Corporate and Agency Bonds (TRACE), Municipal Bonds (MSRB) and end of day prices for U.S. Treasury Bonds.

Yahoo! Finance contains free stock quotes, historical stock prices going back to the 1970s, up-to-date market news, and mortgage rates for investors managing their portfolios.
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This resource from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commision is designed to teach people about the basic tenets of investing. This site has resources for everything from understanding how the markets work to asset allocation and understanding your risk.

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