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Recommended Links: Personal Finance
- Money and Banking
- Investments
- Insurance
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Money and Banking
Bankrate.com
Find banking rates for mortgages, home-equity loans, certificates of deposit and credit cards for more than 50 U.S. Cities, including select banks in the Des Moines area. A monthly payment calculator is available to help you compare rates and loan periods.
http://www.bankrate.com/
Consumer Price Indexes
Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI data for the current month and as far back as 1987. Data can be sorted and presented in a table that best meets your needs.
http://www.bls.gov/cpi/
Consumer Price Index Calculator
The Consumer Price Index calculator from the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank allows the user to input any year between 1913 and the current year along with a dollar value to retrieve the equivalent dollar value in a later year.
http://minneapolisfed.org/research/data/us/calc/
Currency Converter
View any exchange rates among 164 currencies for any day since 1 January 1990 through today. The currency converter is updated daily at 8:00 p.m. EST. Travelers can instantly create and print out a wallet-sized up-to-date currency conversion table.
http://www.oanda.com/
FDIC Institution Directory System
Makes available demographic data and financial profiles derived from quarterly reports filed with Federal regulators for FDIC-insured institutions. The ID system can be used to identify and list FDIC-insured institutions, and compare individual bank performance and condition ratios with statistics published in the Quarterly Banking Profile. This information can easily be printed or downloaded into Excel spreadsheets.
http://www.fdic.gov
Federal Reserve System Beige Book
This report by the Federal Reserve is published eight times a year and contains anecdotal information on current economic conditions for each of 11 districts through reports from bank and branch directors and interviews with key businessmen, economists, market experts, and other sources.
http://www.federalreserve.gov/FOMC/BeigeBook/2002/
New York Times BanxQuote Banking Center
As with all New York Times sites, you'll need to register before entering, but once in, you'll find daily quotes for interest rates on loans and deposits offered by financial institutions. It covers metropolitan, state-by-state, regional and national composite benchmarks for each banking product, as well as profiles of the banking institutions.
Investments
CNN Money
A source for business and investment news including U.S. and world markets, currencies, interest rates and commodities.
http://money.cnn.com/
Investment FAQ
Advice and links for investors at all levels. Provide "tours" for beginning, intermediate, and advanced investors.
http://www.invest-faq.com/
Investor's Business Daily
Online version of the popular newspaper. Read the current day's news or register and take part in an investor education course for beginners.
http://www.investors.com
Morningstar
Access the company's stock and mutual fund databases for daily updates of one-day to 10 year total returns.
http://www.morningstar.com/
TheStreet.com
Financial reporting, analysis, and commentary published entirely on the web.
http://www.thestreet.com/
Insurance
Complete Glossary of Insurance Coverage Explanations
The Lewis-Chester Group provides the information you need to understand your insurance policies.
http://www.coverageglossary.com/
Insure.com
This site attempts to provide factual and unbiased consumer information about auto, home and life insurance, including insurance company ratings from Standard & Poor's. Some state by state insurance news, statistics and links are among some other useful resources available here.
http://www.insure.com/
A M Best Insurance Services
http://www.ambest.com/
Medicare Consumer Information
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/
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