Data on stock market indexes can be found on:
www.djindexes.com (Dow Jones indexes) www.spglobal.com (Standard & Poor's indexes) www.msci.com (return data for MSCI set of indexes) www.barra.com (market indices with information on dividend yields, P/Es, etc.)
Chapter 7 provides an overview of long-term returns on stocks and bonds. You can find long-term securities price data on:
www.globalfindata.com www.econ.yale.edu/~shiller (Robert Shiller's home page)
In Chapter 8 we explain why risk can be measured by "beta." Equity betas for individual stocks can be found on Yahoo! (or you can download the stock prices from Yahoo! and calculate your own measures):
finance.yahoo.com
Chapter 9 looks at portfolio construction. Campbell Harvey's home page includes software to calculate efficient frontiers for portfolios of two or three assets:
www.duke.edu/~charvey
Software for project analysis (Chapter 10) is available on:
www.jaxworks.com (simple illustration of accounting break-even analysis) www.crystalball.com (demo of Crystal Ball™ simulation software) home.uchicago.edu/~rmyerson (Roger Myerson's home page provides downloadable software for risk analysis and simulation)
The Corporate Library is a very useful source of information on executive compensation. Business Week and Forbes produce regular reports on remuneration, and the Web site of Towers Perrin, the human resource consultancy, provides some extracts from its database:
www.thecorporatelibrary.com www.towersperrin.com www.forbes.com www.businessweek.com
Chapter 12 describes how performance may be measured by EVA. Stern Stewart's site provides articles and data on EVA:
www.sternstewart.com
PART 4
Chapter 14 provides an overview of corporate financing. Useful sources of data on financing for U.S. corporations include:
www.census.gov/csd/qfr (balance sheet and income data) www.federalreserve.gov/releases (flow of funds accounts; includes data on asset holdings by class of investor)
Chapter 15 discusses venture capital financing. Relevant sites include:
www.redherring.com www.nvca.org (Web site of the National Venture Capital Association) www.evca.com (Web site of the European Venture Capital Association) www.asianfn.com (Web site of the Asian Venture Capital Association) www.ventureeconomics.com (includes statistics on venture capital activity) www.pwcmoneytree.com (includes results of quarterly survey of venture capital activity) www.v1.com (includes statistics on venture capital activity) www.vnpartners.com/primer.htm (a useful primer on venture capital)
Dividend policy and leverage decisions may be influenced by tax rates. Here are some sites with information on tax rates:
www.taxsites.com (includes links to sites providing tax rates for a variety of countries) finance.yahoo.com (information on personal tax rates) www.quicken.com (information on personal tax rates)
The following sites are concerned with the real options discussed in Chapter 22:
www.puc-rio.br/marco.ind www.crystalball.com (also includes attractive software for Black-Scholes and binomial calculations)
PART 7
Part 1 introduced the basics of bond valuation and we listed several Web sites. Here are a few more sites:
www.fintools.com (has a somewhat more advanced bond calculator) www.loanpricing.com (includes data on bond issuance volumes)
Chapters 24 and 25 focus on risky corporate bonds. The Web sites of the rating agencies provide lots of information on default risk and corporate bond yields:
www.moodys.com www.standardandpoors.com www.fitchibca.com www.bondsonline.com (mainly a subscription service but includes data on bond spreads)
For material on the estimation of default probabilities, see:
www.moodyskmv.com (Moody's KMV) www.riskmetrics.com (includes a detailed description of Creditmetrics risk analysis)
Some sites that focus on project finance:
www.ipfa.org (International Project Finance Association) www.hbs.edu/projfinportal (maintained by Benjamin Esty with excellent links including links to specific large projects)
The following sites contain material on leasing, which is covered in Chapter 26:
www.elaonline.com (Equipment Leasing Association) www.chooseleasing.org
PART 8
Chapter 27 discusses futures markets. The major futures exchanges have useful sites that provide data and explain how futures markets work:
www.cbot.com (Chicago Board of Trade) www.cme.com (Chicago Mercantile Exchange) www.nymex.com (New York Mercantile Exchange) www.lme.com (London Metal Exchange) www.eurexchange.com (Eurex) www.liffe.com (London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange)
The site for the Bank for International Settlements includes periodic surveys of derivative and currency markets:
www.bis.org
ISDA is the trade association for swap dealers:
www.isda.org
There are numerous sites with spot currency rates. They include official sites and more user-friendly commercial ones:
www.federalreserve.gov www.stls.frb.org www.ny.frb.org (the New York Fed's Web site also includes a good description of the foreign exchange market) www.oecd.org (the OECD's Web site also includes "effective" or "real" exchange rates) www.bankofengland.co.uk (includes "effective" or "real" exchange rates and, for sterling only, forward exchange rates) www.ecb.int (the Web site of the European Central Bank includes nominal and "effective" or "real" exchange rates for the euro) www.oanda.com www.x-rates.com www. economist.com/markets/currency/map.cfm (map of the world allowing you to find cross-rates between two countries and change in rate) www.globalfindata.com (this marvelous site includes some very long-term exchange rate data)
The OECD Web site is a good source of short- and long-term interest rates by country:
www.oecd.org
The following sites provide useful financial information for a variety of countries:
www.corporateinformation.com (company data and links to finance-related sites for each country) www.emgmkts.com (data and commentary on emerging markets) www.securities.com (news on emerging markets)
For sample rankings of countries by political risk see:
www.prsgroup.com
For financial ratios see:
www.jaxworks.com (simple illustrations of the calculation and interpretation of some common financial ratios) edgarscan.pwcglobal.com (a very nice site that calculates company financial ratios. Use the Benchmarking Assistant to compare ratios across years and companies.)
Downloadable software for short- and long-term financial planning is available on:
www.crystalball.com www.jaxworks.com (has a number of simple spreadsheets for financial planning) www.toolkit.cch.com (another site with simple spreadsheets for financial planning)
The Web site of the Bank of International Settlements and the central banks provide material on payment systems:
www.bis.org www.federalreserve.gov www.ecb.int (for material on the European Central Bank's "Target" payments system)
GE's Web site contains information on sources and costs of short-term finance:
www.gecfosolutions.com
Central bank Web sites, such as those for The Federal Reserve and regional Feds, are generally good sources of reference for short-term interest rates.
www.federalreserve.gov (also contains results of the quarterly survey of the terms of business lending by banks) www.ny.frb.org www.stls.frb.org www.oecd.org (the OECD Web site contains interest rate series for different countries)
Dun and Bradstreet and the three main credit-reporting agencies have useful Web sites:
www.dnb.com (examples of Dun and Bradstreet credit reports, articles on credit management, and an introductory guide to understanding financial statements) www.equifax.com www.experian.com www.transunion.com
Fair Isaac Corporation is the leading provider of credit scoring for consumers. See:
www.fairisaac.com www.myfico.com finance.yahoo.com (Yahoo's credit analyzer allows you to estimate your personal credit rating)
Most Web sites that provide market commentary (see list at start of Part One) also contain material on recent mergers. Other sites concerned with mergers include:
www.mergernetwork.com (information on businesses for sale) www.mergerstat.com (some data on merger activity)