Useful financial links

Here are some useful financial links for monitoring day to day markets and getting stock quotes. These are great and can be used by beginners and even advanced stock traders on a day to day basis to get a sense of the market and to find which way they should go for their investment strategy.

Useful financial links and websites

Link	Description
Google Finance	Google Finance: great for tracking stocks, looking up values and graphs and options. The Stock graphs/charts are flash based which is great.
Yahoo Finance	Yahoo Finance: great for tracking stocks and reading few top stories.
Bloomberg	Great for getting a general sense of the market around the world, before stocks open, Asian and European markets and current price of Gold/Oil/Natural Gas
Globe and Mail Business	The Globe and Mail Business Newspaper: has good global stock market and business news coverage.
BNN	Canadian financial TV channel: covers the world and mostly North America. (Toronto based TV station)
Forex Factory Calendar	Forex Factory Calendar: an excellent source of when and the outcome of global data/reports that can impact your stock holding on that time. The impact level is also shown which is very interesting.
Exchange Rates	Exchange Rates: the daily and historical exchange rates of major currencies and great tool to convert from one currency to another. This is great if you are doing USD/CDN for example trades and you want to convert.
What is ETF	What is ETF: What are ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds) and list of all the North American ETFs and other countries will be added soon.