Research Guides: Financial Literacy: Investing

Investing

Puts your money to work

AAII Investor Classroom
The American Association of Individual Investors provides an overview of investment basics to help you get started.
Investor.gov
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Office of Investor Education provides an introduction to markets and investing "to help you make sound investment decisions and avoid fraud."

Morningstar Investing Center
Find a stock or fund to meet your needs, research current or prospective holdings or see how your investments work together. Morningstar's data reports cover more than 20,000 securities. Licensing restrictions apply. Subscription databases have licensing restrictions on the number of simultaneous users. This database has 4 users. If you are unable to access this database, please try again. Historical data back to 1996.
ValueLine.Com
Provides investment research on stocks, mutual funds, options and convertibles, and offers a family of no-load mutual funds.

Yahoo! Finance
Free website, provides stock quotes, current news, as well as a wide range of information important to making investment decisions.
Wishing Wealth Blog
Dr. Eric Wish is a professor at the University of Maryland College Park. He uses this blog to "share tools and methods that I have used of the past 40 years of trading, so that you may learn from them and adapt them to your trading style and needs."

Financial Literacy