Forum Archive Index - July 2001

["G Stolwyk" <stolwyk@wave.co.nz>]

C: Company announcements/ data / profiles. E: Education. E/T: Education Technical. F/T: Funds or Trusts G: Government.

SE: Stock Exchange. SR: Share registrar. Unless one takes part in a discussion group, there is normally no need to register!

 

    < www.alltheweb.com >   A powerful, ultra fast commercial search engine. ( Rec. by G.S ).

   

    < www.globalbankinfo.com >   Gateway to international banking. Banks of the world and their web addresses.

 

    < www.brokerchoice.com.au >   Online trading prices charged by Australian brokers.( Rec. by B. Byork ).

 

    < www.clearstation.com >   Record of daily historical Dow and Nasdaq readings and other data.

 

    < www.lowrisk.com >    Historical Bull and Bear periods, market crashes, P/E ratios.

 

    < http://kitco.com >    Gold trading and news. Discussion of other precious metals.

 

C: < www.egoli.com.au >  ( Click on " News and views " ). Australian company news and comment being updated as trading proceeds. Note the important NAB forecasts on the last day of the month! Excellent site! ( Rec. by G.S ).

 

C: < http://stocknessmonster.com >  Australian and NZ share prices and sales; SE. company announcements, Aus. and NZ historical SE. announcements. A fast site to work with! ( Rec. by G.S ). 

 

C: < http://profiles.wisi.com/profiles > A massive world data base of some 300,000 company profiles and detailed analysis of over 20,000 companies and web sites. Recommended by Rini H. ( Com.: Some details of an analysis can be out of date: Check the relevant company's web site as well ). 

 

C: < http://investor.ninemsn.com.au > Australian prices, company balance sheets, announcements and commentary, historical financials. ( Rec. by P. Maiden ). A very good site and most info can be obtained without registration!

 

C: < http://globalregister.co.nz >   Share prices of NZ and Australian stocks including those of little known stocks. The shares are arranged in alphabetical order. Armstrong Jones Unit trusts.

 

E: < www.sharechat.co.nz > The top tool bar has a tab: " Education "; this also lists companies and their web sites. Students may peruse its many faceted contents. The site has many links to national and international newspapers and periodicals. The same applies to financial newspapers. It is building up a network of news items and announcements concerning companies. It now sells books as well.

 

E: < www.investors.com/learn/ >  Click on " IBD learning centre ". A good site. Some care is needed when some Dot.com companies are discussed. ( Rec. by D. O' Conner ). 

 

E: < www.investorwords.com/ >  This financial glossary has 5000 definitions and 15000 links between related terms. A "must have"

site! ( Rec. by Snoopy ).

 

E: < www.geocities.com/andrewychan/index.html > File name; " Economic Model V 16 ". PDF file. Philip Robinson strongly recommends this 33 page pdf called " The Mechanics of the Economic Model, ROIC, WACC, EVA, MVA and CAP defined".

 

E: < www.freecfm.com/a/ausinvest/FAQ.htm >  An Australian discussion group answers frequently asked questions and discusses definitions > ( Rec. by Snoopy ).

 

E: < www.ozestock.com.au >   Austalian company profiles, charts. It has  very active message boards.

 

E/T: < www.stanz.co.nz  >   The Society of Technical Analysts, NZ inc. This society meets regularly and meetings are addressed by well known speakers. The site als lists a number of recommended books.

 

E/T: < www.echarts.com/Learning/Library/ >  Learning technical analysis, trading terms and the interpretation of charts. A top site! ( Rec. by Phaedrus )

 

F/T: < www.funds-sp.com/win/en/ >   Rates funds/trusts and has a massive data base ( Rec. by T. Haddon ).

 

F/T: < www.trustnet.com >  Rates the dominant 1830 of the international unit- and investment trusts with up to five year's performance. Data can be rearranged to extract other comparisons. Top site! ( Rec. by G.S )

 

G:  < www.companies.govt.nz >  Companies' office.

 

G:  < www.stats.govt.nz >   Statistics, NZ.

 

G:  < www.rbnz.govt.nz >    Reserve Bank, NZ.

 

G:  < http://rangi.knowledge-basket.co.nz/gpacts/actlists.html > Lists of acts in the GP Legislation collections. It includes Hansard. The private company collecting this Govt. data is owned by two former librarians. Good site!

 

SE:  < www.nzse.co.nz >  The NZSE. This site provides information to the investor.

 

SE:  < www.tradingroom.com.au >   The Aust. SE. Note that " Stocknessmonster " site - see above - is often preferred.

 

SE:  < www.nyse.com >   The New York SE.

 

SE:  < www.nasdaq.com >  The Nasdaq.

 

SE:  < www.londonstockexchange.com >  The London SE.

 

SR:   < www.au.computershare.com >  The Computershare share registrar.

 

SR:   < www.registrars.aprl.com.au >  The Perpetual share registrar. 

 

 

Acknowledgement: I want to thank those contributors, named or not named, who gave this information to the Forum.

 

Gerry Stolwyk.