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Sabina Cisek, PhD Associate Professor Institute of Information and Library Science

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

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Sabina Cisek, PhD Associate Professor Institute of Information and Library Science

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  1. Business InformationModule 2: Seeking for business information – Web-based information resourcesPart C: Financial informationInternational 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.pl, sabina.cisek@gmail.com

  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. 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/

  4. 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

  5. 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/

  6. 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

  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?

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