The Finance Sites We Actually Use
Somewhere between your tenth open tab and your third "best finance sites" listicle, the internet stops helping. This page is the fix — the sites we actually use, checked, grouped, and described in one line each.
Every external link opens in a new tab, and every one of them worked when we last checked. They're grouped by job, so jump straight to the kind of help you need.
Brand new to all this? Read what investing actually is and how to analyze a stock in five minutes first — the sites below will make a lot more sense.
Market News & Media
When something moves the market, these are the outlets that tell you what happened and why.
Barron's — A weekly investing magazine known for stock picks, fund rankings, and sharp market analysis.
Benzinga — High-speed market news and trading ideas aimed at active traders.
Bloomberg — Round-the-clock global markets, business, and economics coverage from one of the biggest names in financial media.
CNN Business — Mainstream business headlines plus the famous Fear & Greed Index.
The Economic Times — India's largest business daily, essential if you follow Indian markets.
Financial News — A Dow Jones title tracking the City of London's banks, funds, and dealmakers.
Financial Times — The London-based daily that's a standard read for global finance and economics.
International Finance — A magazine covering banking, business, and finance across global markets.
Investor's Business Daily — Growth-stock research built around IBD's ratings and the CAN SLIM method.
Marketplace — Public radio's daily business show, explaining the economy in plain English.
Markets Insider — Business Insider's markets arm, with quotes, movers, and fast news hits.
MarketWatch — Free market news and data from Dow Jones, with a strong personal-finance section.
NPR — Home of Planet Money and The Indicator, which make economics genuinely fun.
StockNews — Stock articles backed by the quantitative POWR Ratings system.
TheStreet — Market news and investing commentary from the site Jim Cramer co-founded.
The Wall Street Journal — America's flagship business daily for markets, companies, and the economy.
Yahoo Finance — Free quotes, charts, portfolios, and news, plus the personal-finance coverage that used to live at Yahoo Money.
Market Data, Charting & Research
Raw numbers, charts, and screeners for when you'd rather check the data yourself.
ETF Database — A screener and database for comparing ETFs by holdings, fees, and themes.
FinancialContent — The market-data pages behind many local news sites, with quotes and press releases.
Investing.com — Quotes, charts, screeners, and an economic calendar spanning global markets.
Market Chameleon — Options-focused data covering volatility, earnings moves, and trade screeners.
Seeking Alpha — Crowd-sourced stock research plus earnings-call transcripts that are hard to find free elsewhere.
StockCharts — Technical charting and scanning, with the free ChartSchool covering nearly every indicator.
Trading Economics — Macro indicators, forecasts, and calendars for nearly 200 countries.
TradingView — Best-in-browser charting plus a huge community publishing trade ideas.
Learning & Personal Finance
Where to build the knowledge before you put real money on the line.
AlgoTrading101 — Courses and guides for learning algorithmic trading with Python.
Analyzing Alpha — Data-driven articles testing what actually works in trading and investing.
The Balance — Plain-English guides to budgeting, saving, and everyday money decisions.
Corporate Finance Institute — Structured courses and certifications, like the FMVA, for aspiring financial analysts.
GeeksforGeeks — A programming-tutorials site that comes in handy once your investing turns quantitative.
Investopedia — The internet's finance dictionary, with clear definitions and tutorials for every term you'll meet.
NerdWallet — Compares brokers, credit cards, and bank accounts so you don't have to.
Communities & Commentary
Opinionated voices and trader chatter — useful for sentiment, not gospel.
The Market Ticker — Karl Denninger's blunt, no-frills commentary on markets and the economy.
Stocktwits — A social feed organized by ticker, so you can see what traders are saying about any stock.
Ticker Forum — The discussion forum that runs alongside The Market Ticker.
Exchanges, Regulators & Institutions
Straight-from-the-source information with no ad-driven spin.
BSE India — The official site of India's Bombay Stock Exchange, home of the SENSEX.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — The US consumer watchdog, with unbiased guides on loans, banking, and filing complaints.
Nasdaq — Exchange news plus free quotes, screeners, and an earnings calendar.
National Bureau of Economic Research — The research bureau that publishes working papers and officially dates US recessions.
New York Stock Exchange — The NYSE's official site for listings, market data, and IPO news.
Social Finance — A nonprofit that funds social programs through outcomes-based "pay for success" financing.
World Bank — Development research and one of the best free troves of global economic data.
Brokers, Banks & Asset Managers
The firms that actually hold and manage money — accounts, funds, and advice.
Ameriprise Financial — Advisor-led financial planning, from retirement through insurance.
Amplify ETFs — An issuer of thematic and income-focused exchange-traded funds.
Charles Schwab — A full-service discount broker, and the company that absorbed TD Ameritrade.
Davis ETFs — Actively managed ETFs from research-driven Davis Advisors.
International Finance Bank — A Miami-based bank serving both domestic and international clients.
John Hancock Investment Management — Mutual funds and ETFs from the long-running Boston asset manager.
Merrill Edge — Bank of America's online brokerage, convenient if you already bank there.
Prudential Financial — Insurance, retirement accounts, and investment products under one roof.
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