Biznar (http://biznar.com/biznar/) is a free business search engine - "a publicly available business research website." According to the description, "Biznar scans the best business websites on the internet, including blogs, news sites, patent sources, search engines, and deep web sources, returning the most relevant results to one, easily navigable, ranked page."
Since this searches deep web (invisible web) sites, and is specific to business, it will return more relevant information than a Google search.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
The Stock Market
The stock market has certainly been in the news a lot lately! But what is the stock market? How does it work? What do the numbers mean?
Here are some answers.
How stocks and the stock market work: http://money.howstuffworks.com/personal-finance/financial-planning/stock.htm
How does the stock market work? http://life.familyeducation.com/personal-finance/lifestyle-and-home/47414.html
The stock market: what does it do and how has it performed? http://mailer.fsu.edu/~dmacpher/garnet-dmacpher/teaching/ECO2023/Lectures/10_S04.ppt
Dow Jones Industrial Average: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average
Standard and Poor's 500: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S&P_500
NASDAQ: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASDAQ, http://www.nasdaq.com/
Russell 2000: http://www.russell.com/Indexes/characteristics_fact_sheets/US/Russell_2000_Index.asp
Monday, November 10, 2008
The Global Economy and the Group of 20
This article is from today's New York Times:
"The Group of 20 finance ministers and central bankers met over the weekend here with the intent of laying the groundwork for a critical meeting of world leaders in Washington next Saturday to tackle the global financial crisis."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/business/worldbusiness/10g20.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin
"Instead, Mr. da Silva and Mr. Mantega sought to assert the role of the Group of 20 in discussions typically dominated by the Group of 7 organization of advanced economies — Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States. The Group of 20, formed in the aftermath of the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s, is composed of the Group of 7 and 13 developing countries."
The countries in the Group of 20 (also known as the G-20) are the Group of 7 countries, named in the paragraph above, and Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, and the European Union. These are not the top 20 economies in the world, but together they account for 90% of global gross national product, 80% of world trade, and 2/3 of the world's population (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G20_industrial_nations). Individual members of the G-20 are the finance ministers and central bank governors of these countries, the president of the European Union (if the president's country is not already a member), and several other global economy leaders such as the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the president of the World Bank.
Brazil, Russia, India and China are collectively known as the BRIC countries. They are four of the world's fastest-developing nations, and would like to have more input into the issues facing the global economy. The head of the IMF agrees, saying that the only global growth that will occur next year will come from these countries and others like them.
The G-20 countries are facing economic problems because of the problems of the G-7 economies. The problems of one country, or a few countries, cannot be isolated to just those countries. The global economy is too integrated for that.
For more information:
G-20: http://www.g20.org/G20/
International Monetary Fund: http://www.imf.org/external/index.htm
BRIC countries: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=a92MjLFTwrkg&refer=asia
The World Bank: http://www.worldbank.org/
The global economy: http://wage.wisc.edu/
"The Group of 20 finance ministers and central bankers met over the weekend here with the intent of laying the groundwork for a critical meeting of world leaders in Washington next Saturday to tackle the global financial crisis."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/business/worldbusiness/10g20.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin
"Instead, Mr. da Silva and Mr. Mantega sought to assert the role of the Group of 20 in discussions typically dominated by the Group of 7 organization of advanced economies — Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States. The Group of 20, formed in the aftermath of the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s, is composed of the Group of 7 and 13 developing countries."
The countries in the Group of 20 (also known as the G-20) are the Group of 7 countries, named in the paragraph above, and Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, and the European Union. These are not the top 20 economies in the world, but together they account for 90% of global gross national product, 80% of world trade, and 2/3 of the world's population (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G20_industrial_nations). Individual members of the G-20 are the finance ministers and central bank governors of these countries, the president of the European Union (if the president's country is not already a member), and several other global economy leaders such as the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the president of the World Bank.
Brazil, Russia, India and China are collectively known as the BRIC countries. They are four of the world's fastest-developing nations, and would like to have more input into the issues facing the global economy. The head of the IMF agrees, saying that the only global growth that will occur next year will come from these countries and others like them.
The G-20 countries are facing economic problems because of the problems of the G-7 economies. The problems of one country, or a few countries, cannot be isolated to just those countries. The global economy is too integrated for that.
For more information:
G-20: http://www.g20.org/G20/
International Monetary Fund: http://www.imf.org/external/index.htm
BRIC countries: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=a92MjLFTwrkg&refer=asia
The World Bank: http://www.worldbank.org/
The global economy: http://wage.wisc.edu/
New format for blog
The format for this blog will be changing; it will now include business news from various sources, with suggestions for research on the given topic, as well as new books, useful links, and other new library resources. It will combine this blog, the New Books and Business Resources blogs into this blog.
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