Outside Links
Teachers and students have found the following sites helpful to their Stock Market Game research. These sites are not operated by SIFMA or the SIFMA Foundation. Their content is not managed by SIFMA or the SIFMA Foundation. These sites may contain advertisements and commercial messaging. Please visit the Department of Justice's Project Safe Childhood for information on protecting your children online.
The links are organized alphabetically.
- Bloomberg - Bloomberg identifies itself as the leader in global business information. They deliver data, news and analytics that are helpful to financial professional and the interested public.
- EDGAR Database - EDGAR, the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system, offers real-time filings and other company information for publicly traded companies.
- Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis produces free, high quality classroom resources including lesson plans, children's literature, data and document sources, SMART and Promethean applications, and online courses.
- Investing in Bonds - The award-winning Investing In Bonds site for individual investors features daily updates and historical databases of municipal and corporate bond trades, treasury prices and a range of data and indices across bond markets.
- Investeens - Founded by high school teacher and Stock Market Game veteran, Tom Barrella, Investeens provides news written by students, a "plain English" financial glossary, and activities for teachers.
- Morningstar - Morningstar provides data on stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 8 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets.
- Museum of American Finance - The Museum of American Finance is the only brick-and-mortar museum dedicated to chronicling American financial achievement and development. Visit their Publications and Collections section for articles and glimpses at their collection.
- My Vocabulary.com - As noted in publications like The Reading Teacher, Stanford Magazine, Harvard Business School Magazine, My Vocabulary.com is an effective way to build vocabulary through grade level interactive word puzzles (Upper Elementary through College Prep). This link points to their glossary of finance and stock market terms.
- NASDAQ - The NASDAQ site allows you to compare multiple stock quotes, provides company descriptions, and includes investment information in their "Investing Insights" section.
- New York Financial Press - New York Financial Press is a leading provider of premium video content reporting throughout the day from the floor of New York Stock Exchange, the NASDAQ and Paris.
- NYSE Euronext Financial Literacy - In addition to company profiles and stock quotes, the NYSE Euronext website provides investor education resources and tools.
- SEC Historical - In their own words, Sechistorical.org is a “ virtual museum and archive of the history of Financial Regulation.” The site provides exclusive access to historical documents, videos, and audio recordings about market regulation.
- The Street - - The Street is a digital financial media company providing financial news and investment research. Of particular interest to Stock Market Game teams is their Investor Research tab.
- Yahoo! Finance - The Yahoo! Finance site is a virtual library of investment information. They provide investment research, basic investment guides, financial glossaries, economic news, company descriptions, ticker lookups and quotes.