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Business and Economics

Library Databases -- 39 databases of reliable, in-depth, and current information, including Business and Company Resource Center, Business and Company ASAP, and more. Always the best place to start for quality resources. You will need to log in with your regular user name and password. Add " @qsbyin " to your user name.

U.S. Government Sites	*Business Sites*	Local Information
*Stock Market*	*Currency Rates*	*Legal Information*

*U.S. Government Sites*
U.S. Small Business Administration	I.R.S.	Statistical Abstract of the United States
Business.gov -- The official business link to the U.S. Government.	U.S. Chamber of Commerce	Consumer Price Index Calculator -- Find out what a dollar was worth from 1913 to the present. From the Minneapolis Federal Reserve.
Consumer.gov	Federal Reserve Bank of New York	Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
American Time Use Survey (ATUS) -- "Measures the amount of time people spend doing various activities, such as paid work, childcare, volunteering, and socializing."

Business Sites
CEOExpress -- "Designed to be the executive’s interface to the Internet."	Hoover's Online -- "Comprehensive company, industry, and market intelligence."	Forbes
Business Owners' IdeaCafe	ASBA -- The American Small Business Association.	Jim Blasingame: The Small Business Advocate
BusinessFinance.com	Online Women's Business Center	QuickBooks Payroll

Local Information
Adirondack Regional Chamber of Commerce	Warren County Economic Development Corporation

*Stock Market*
New York Stock Exchange	Nasdaq	American Stock Exchange
CBS Market Watch	Bloomberg.com -- For financial news.	Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition -- "Articles written by The Wall Street Journal's experienced staff of reporters, and selected with an eye toward the interests of today's teenagers."
Historical Quotes -- Historical stock prices from Yahoo!Finance.	Financials.com -- "A variety of tools that cover the spectrum from investment basics to company fundamentals and online portfolio management."	Symbol Lookup -- Find the symbol of a stock. From the Globe and Mail.

*Currency Rates*
FXConverter -- "A multi-lingual Currency Converter with up to date exchange rates provided from leading market data contributors ... filtered for validity." From OANDA.	XE.com - The Universal Currency Converter-- "Interactive foreign exchange (FX, or forex) rate calculations, using live, up-to-the-minute currency rates."	Measuring Worth -- Calculators compare the relative worth of things in different currencies and at different periods of history.

Legal Information
FindLaw -- "Web search utilities, cases and codes, legal news, and more."	FreeAdvice	Law Engine -- "The best online legal sources in a fast 'single-view' format."