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Pathfinder: Stocks
Resources for Stocks
When you invest in stock, you buy ownership shares in a company—also known as equity shares. Your return on investment, or what you get back in relation to what you put in, depends on the success or failure of that company. If the company does well and makes money from the products or services it sells, you expect to benefit from that success.
The following resources are all available free online, or through SELCO libraries. Ask your local librarian if you have further research needs.
Subject Headings in the catalog
• Finance, Personal
• Stocks
Books
Cramer, Jim. Jim Cramer's Real Money: Sane Investing in an Insane World. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005.
Dalton, John M. How the Stock Market Works. How the markets work series. New York: New York Institute of Finance, 2001.
Kaye, Michael. The Standard & Poor's Guide to Selecting Stocks: Finding the Winners and Weeding Out the Losers. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2006.
Mladjenovic, Paul J. Stock Investing for Dummies. --For dummies. Indianapolis, IN: Wiley Pub, 2005.
O'Neil, William J. 24 Essential Lessons for Investment Success. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000.
• Orman, Suze. Ask Suze --About Stocks and Bonds. New York: Riverhead Books, 2000.
Siegel, Jeremy J. Stocks for the Long Run: The Definitive Guide to Financial Market Returns and Long-Term Investment Strategies. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2008.
• Slatter, John. The 100 Best Stocks You Can Buy 2007. Avon, Mass: Adams Media, 2006.
Uldrich, Jack. Green Investing: A Guide to Making Money Through Environment-Friendly Stocks. Avon, MA: Newton Abbot, 2008.
Magazines & Newspapers
• Investor's Business Daily.
• Wall Street Journal.
Databases
• EBSCOhost - Business Source Premier.
• ProQuest Newspapers. Includes Wall Street Journal & Barron’s.
Websites
All Smart Investing links are available at http://www.delicious.com/smartinvesting
