Overview

Each day, investors all over the world use the Internet to locate critical financial data that will lead to major decisions on issues of concern to industry and government. This international guide, containing information about more than 3000 Web sites, and covering 216 countries, regions, and territories, responds to the challenge of quickly identifying the needed intelligence. Divided into six sections, the first part of the book offers global finance and investment resources and services, such as international trade associations, corporate and industry information, stock exchanges, market indices, research tools, and business and financial news. The next five sections provide, for specific countries in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Oceania, and Europe, a broad spectrum of Internet resources, including investment in stocks, bonds, and futures; banking; insurance; real estate; taxation; investment and securities law; trade regulations; and so much more. Three indexes assist with access.