Business and Economics: Web Resources

Search engine designed to locate government agencies or to find where specific services can be obtained.

Access to the full range of statistics and information produced by more than 70 agencies of the federal government.

Authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political and economic organization of the United States.

A list of current and upcoming announcements of various economic indicators from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requires public companies to upload required reports such as 10K (annual reports) or 10Q (quarterly reports) directly to its EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval) database, which is accessible to the public.

DataPortals.org is a comprehensive list of global open data portals. It is curated by a group of leading open data experts from around the world - including representatives from local, regional and national governments, international organisations such as the World Bank, and numerous NGOs.

Dataset Search enables users to find datasets stored across the Web through a simple keyword search. The tool surfaces information about datasets hosted in thousands of repositories across the Web, making these datasets universally accessible and useful.

Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences.

Select from fields such as Economics, Accounting or Finance

Good place to start a company search as it will provide an overall profile of the company, financial information, stock pricing, etc.

Click on the Market Data tab which allows access to stock pricing, bond information, indices, currencies and much more.

Access this to identify business or financial terms from over 8,000 entries.

National Association of Insurance Commissioners' Glossary of Insurance Terms and definitions that are commonly used in the insurance business.

Allows one to retrieve definitions of many business, economic or market terms.

ThomasNet, powered by Thomas Register® and Thomas Regional®, is an industrial search engine that provides one source for finding the exact product, service, or supplier –quickly and efficiently. ThomasNet provides direct access to the detailed information needed to make a purchasing or specifying decision, including line-item product details, CAD drawings, and more.

This web site can be a starting point for your discovery of the Bronx. So that you can further explore a variety of topics on the Bronx, this site also recommends interesting books and web site links.

The OOH can help you find career information on duties, education and training, pay, and outlook for hundreds of occupations.

From the U.S. Census Bureau

OurWorldInData is an online publication that shows how living conditions around the world are changing. It communicates this empirical knowledge through interactive data visualisations (charts and maps).

The publication is developed at the University of Oxford and covers a wide range of topics across many academic disciplines: Trends are empirically analyzed and visualized in this web publication. For each topic the quality of the data is discussed and, by pointing the visitor to the sources, this website is also a database of databases.

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