Banking
- Quarterly Banking Profile -- The FDIC's report card on the banking industry. Published 75 days after the end of each quarter, it includes a comprehensive summary of financial results from all insured commercial banks and savings institutions.
Citrus
Companies
- EDGAR Database -- Retrieve company reports (quarterly, annual, proxy statements, etc.) submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission since January 1994. With few exceptions, all public companies are now required to file electronically with EDGAR.
- Hoover's MasterList Plus Company Database -- The basics on 10,000 companies: how to reach them, annual sales, number of employees and more.
- Hoover's Company Profiles -- In-depth information on more than 2,600 public and private companies in the US and the world. We have an annual subscription to this service, so you'll be prompted to give a user name (TIMES) and password (PROFILES) before you can retrieve the profile. Note that these should be typed in all caps.
Directories
- BigBook Directory -- Calling their service a "whole new kind of Yellow Pages," this company provides addresses, phone numbers and descriptions for 16-million U.S. businesses. Check the quality ratings shoppers assign to merchants.
Employment
Florida regulatory agencies
Patents
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office -- Search patents since 1976 for basic information about an inventor or invention. There is a lag period of several months before new patents show up here. For very new patents, for those issued before 1976 or for diagrams, ask a news researcher. Or try the new IBM Patent Server, which has patents dating back to 1971, as well as 10 years' worth of images.
People-finding
Rankings
Statistics
- Census Economic Briefing Room -- A selection of economic statistics including trade deficit, housing starts, durable goods, retail sales, etc. Great charts.
- Economy at a Glance -- Unemployment, earnings, consumer price index, etc. month by month for the past year in an easy-to-read chart produced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
- STAT-USA -- A giant information source of economic and business data from more than 50 federal sources, including daily economic news and statistical news published within minutes of their release. This is the central location for all federal information related to international trade, including the National Trade Data Bank. The News Library has a subscription that you're welcome to use. The user ID is "950yj," and the password is "3430."
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Last Modified: April 21, 1997