Business Information Alert articles from March 2002

Business Information Alert archives from March 2002

The Competition Directorate of the European Union: Regulation of international mergers de-mystified.(regulation of mergers and acquisitions by European Commission)
March 1, 2002... The tentacles of globalization are beginning to affect almost every merger and acquisition of any size between companies, wherever their headquarters are based. Many require approval from both the U.S. and the European Union (EU), the two major...

From the editor.(issue content)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Economic globalization means that the fate of mergers is often decided by both U.S. and foreign regulators. Sylvia James gives us a primer on the European Union directorate that controls the fate of many U.S. company mergers. Terese...

Spring cleaning. (News & Trends).(stock price Web site list)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Is it really two years since I cleaned out my stock price niche? Well, pry open the windows. Out with the withered and link-rotted URLs! What's left? Sites with just today's quotes? Nowadays it's rare to find a financial web site that doesn't...

Finance.Lycos. (The Value-Added Sites).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... For intra-day prices, use Finance.Lycos (formerly Quote.com). You can also get the company profile by Market Guide, as well as the latest press releases for company or industry, Edgar Online filings, and a hot list of firms by industry. Almost...

Nighty Business Reports. (The Value-Added Sites).(www.nbr.com)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... (NBR) online has style and speed. NBR grabs the latest stock price quickly from Bridge Information Systems. With another click, the annual income statement, earnings estimates, and analyst ratings from Zack's Investment Research will pop up....

MoneyCNN is the result of merged Money.com and CNNFN. (The Value-Added Sites).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... MoneyCNN is the result of merged Money.com and CNNFN. It shows only today's prices and a five-year graph from Big Charts, but it warrants inclusion here because of its premium content and my flagrant bias. (The managing producer is my little...

Yahoo. (The Value-Added Sites).(business information services)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Yahoo's wonderflul, plain-and simple historical stock price service has added more back years. Yahoo now offers daily, weekly, and monthly closing prices (with open, high, low prices and volume) from 1962 as a spread-sheet, if you choose....

Big Charts. (The Value-Added Sites).(stock listings from MarketWatch.com)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Big Charts, a service of MarketWatch.com, continues its excellent daily stock price listings from 1970. (www.bigcharts.mar ketwatch. com) Terese Mulkern Terry is a business information specialist at the Lippincott Library of the Wharton...

Morningstar. (The Value-Added Sites).(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Morningstar posts daily prices from 1997 and a well-organized collection of company financial facts, including ratios, dividend history, and ownership data. You can compare up to 10 stocks at a time for growth and market capitalization. (www....

WallStreetCity. (The Value-Added Sites).(www. wallstreetcity.com)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... WallStreetCity shows prices from 1988 in your choice of daily, weekly, quarterly, or annual results. (www. wallstreetcity.com) Terese Mulkern Terry is a business information specialist at the Lippincott Library of the Wharton School,...

CorporateInformation.com. (The Value-Added Sites).(services information)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... International stock prices are harder to find. Corporatelnformation.com provides quarterly stock prices for exchanges in selected countries. Start date varies. The earliest I saw was 1990 for Turkey. (www.corporate information.Com) Terese...

Euroland. (The Value-Added Sites).(provides European stock prices on Web site)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Euroland (formerly European Investor) has current prices for European stocks. It also shows a list of component companies for all the European stock exchanges that can be sorted by industry. (www.euro/and com) Terese Mulkern Terry is a...

Nasdaq. (The Value-Added Sites).(services information)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Nasdaq, the youngster among stock exchanges, puts out a powerhouse of equity intelligence. Today's prices are upfront for NYSE, ASE, Nasdaq, and Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board (OTCBB). Historical prices? No, but look at what you do get --...

Stockpoint. (Recommended with Reservations).(services information)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Stockpoint has today's prices and profiles for companies in the U.S. (Market Guide) and 15 foreign countries (WorldVest Base, Inc.). At least a dozen other data sets are available, including Insider Trading Data from Vickers Stock Research...

Hemscott. (Recommended with Reservations).(services information)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Hemscott, a U.K. consultancy, provides intra-day prices, broker forecasts, company fundamentals, and more for British companies. Free registration is required. Unfortunately, it's agonizingly slow. (http://hemscott.net) Terese Mulkern...

World Investor Link. (Recommended with Reservations).(services information)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Do not fall for the free annual reports offer most of these sites present. They are usually from World Investor Link, which considers your request a life-long license to nag. (Use www. report gallery. corn instead.) Terese Mulkern Terry is...

Gimmick of the month. (News & Trends).(advice on business cards)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... This is for the info pro who has everything. Burn your business card! You can buy a kit to create your own interactive business cards for $100. They are about the size of a standard business card and look like a sawed-off compact disc. ...

Manual of online search strategies: Volume III - Humanities and Social Sciences. (Information Services).(manual information)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... 3d ed. C.J. Armstrong & Andrew Large, eds. 2001. Gower Publishing. 354p. ISBN 0-566-08305-1. $165. This new edition, updated from 1992, is part of a three-volume set. Volume 1 is tided "Sciences," and Volume 2 is titled "Business, Law,...

Protecting Library Staff, Users, Collections, and Facilities: A how-to-do-it manual for librarians. (Library Management).(manual from Pamela Cravey)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Pamela Cravey. 2001. Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc. Softcover. 169p. ISBN: 1-55570-392-5. $55. Pamela Cravey has taken on a formidable task in writing her library security manual. The topic of security is dry and uncomfortable for most...

The Facts on File Dictionary of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering. (Reference).(manual from Sharon D. Cosloy and Mark L. Steinberg)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Mark L. Steinberg, Ph.D. & Sharon D. Cosloy, Ph.D., eds. 2000. Checkmark Books. Softcover. 228p. ISBN: 0-8160-4274-8. $44. Biotechnology is the 21st century's new frontier. The impact of genetic research is not limited to the sciences, but...

Come on down, it's time for the price's sites! (Price's Posts).(Google search tools)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Any way you slice, dice, or search it, Google is a wonderful and essential search tool. What else is new? Type in a few words and very often get a solid list of hits of "on the Web" content ready to browse. Here are a few favorites from my...

Pink Sheets. (The Value-Added Sites).(stock price quotes)(Brief Article)
March 1, 2002... Can't find your stock anywhere? Try the Pink Sheets. What is Pink Sheets? Yes, like news, Pink Sheets is plural in form but is treated grammatically as a singular. A company named Pink Sheets LLC, formerly known as the National Quotation...