• AskAlex -- quick and easy, searchable directory of business addresses and numbers
• askFT -- enlist the help of research professionals to obtain business information, at a minimum price of £62.50 (August 2000)
• The Baltic Exchange
• The Bank of England
• Biz/ed -- business and economics information service aimed at students, teachers and lecturers, but useful to many more
• British Bankers' Association
• Business Day -- the Evening Standard's business news on-line
• Business News from Lycos
• BvD Suite -- includes subscription services like FAME, detailed financial reports for up to 460,000 UK and Irish companies
• Chartered Insurance Institute -- includes CII Library Online and a digital journal archive
• CMC Analysis -- free forex, futures and options information, courtesy of the Currency Management Corporation
• Companies House -- provides official information on companies, usually at a price, though the on-line list of disqualified directors comes free
• Corporate Watch -- researching transnational corporations
• Credit Reports -- Access (at a price) to the UK's largest credit reference agency database and credit reports on any UK business
• David Smith's EconomicsUK -- the Sunday Times economics editor deals with aspects of the UK economy in six sections: news, articles, UK policy, research, books and forum
• Direct Access Government -- access to regulatory guidance and forms published on government websites, provided by the Small Business Service
• eCommerce and IT terms -- an online glossary
• Economics of Tobacco Control -- a World Bank site. Select "All topics" and "United Kingdom" in the drop-down menus, check the box for a description of the data, and click on Generate Report for a comprehensive set of statistics and information about tobacco's influence on business and health in the UK
• Economist Country Briefings -- country profiles, which contain background information, forecasts and statistics, market updates, new headlines, Economist articles, and links to more information
• UK energy analysis by the United States Energy Information Administration
• The European Central Bank
• European Union/Monetary Union Banking Databases -- list of monetary financial institutions (MFIs) in the European Union and institutions subject to the Eurosystem's minimum reserve system
• European Union Market Access Sectoral and Trade Barriers Database
• ft.com -- the Financial Times on-line
• ft.com Global Archive -- search more than 10m articles from 2,000 publications, but you'll have to register first
• G8 Information Centre
• Hoover's Online UK -- company news and information
• individual.com -- business news and numbers, including a searchable news database
• Industry Research Desk -- tools for researching specific companies, industries, and manufacturing processes. For business researchers not yet familiar with the internet, a brief "Introduction to the Internet" is provided
• The Inland Revenue -- the home page features links to news, features, information and publications, and help for individuals and organisations
• Inomics: The Internet Site for Economists -- includes a search engine for economic information (EconSearch) as well as a directory (EconDirectory) of economics resources
• International Monetary Fund
• The International Petroleum Exchange
• A Journalist's Guide to Economic Terms -- Definitions of more than 200 terms reporters are likely to encounter as they cover economic news
• IW 1000 -- fill in the form for information about Industry Week's top 1,000 companies, including 62 from the UK (October 2000). See also:
  • 100 Best Managed Companies
• LIFFE -- The London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange
• Lloyd's of London
• The London Metal Exchange
• McKinsey Quarterly -- Register to access a searchable directory of McKQ articles since 1993
• Mergers and Acquisitions Involving UK Companies: 1st Quarter 2002 [.pdf] -- Office of Statistics report on acquisitions abroad by British interests, foreign acquisitions of British interests, and domestic mergers and acquisitions by British businesses
• News & Numbers -- lessons based on Victor Cohn's book, but you'll have to register first
• NewsEdge -- business news and information services
• News Review -- business news summary, clipping service, archive search, and a facility to search 16 business and finance publications (the "all publications" option did not work -- July 1999) and pay £1 for each story you want
• Penn World Tables -- economic data on the world's nations
• People Tracker -- this Forbes site claims to track (and sometimes link) more than 120,000 executives and rich and famous people
• PricewaterhouseCoopers -- includes the Press Room for contacts and news
• Report Gallery -- searchable and browsable directory of 2,200+ annual reports from "most" Fortune 500 companies (includes an International Gallery)
• Reports Europe -- company reports from CAROL (Company Annual Reports On Line)
• Research Index -- a database that indexes the headlines of news, views and comments on industries and companies worldwide, as reported in the UK national press and a range of business magazines
• Researching Companies Online -- a step-by-step process for finding company and industry information on the World Wide Web
• Resources for Economists on the Internet -- Bill Goffe's international collection of links to economics resources
• SCADplus -- up-to-date documentary references, legislation and European Union publications, articles from periodicals from all over the world, and positions of the two sides of industry
• Scoot -- finds UK business addresses and phone numbers
• The Stock Exchange
• Stock Exchanges Worldwide Links -- Aldas Kirvaitis' list of links
• Tax Links -- AccountingWEB's long list of British tax resources available on the Internet
• ThomWeb business finder -- searchable directory of UK business addresses and phone numbers
• UK Business Park -- searchable database of company information
• UK Equities Direct -- Hemmington Scott's company information pages
• Web-Agri -- searchable international index of 300,000+ pages focused on agriculture
• WebEc (WWW Resources in Economics) -- maintained by Lauri Saarinen
• Who owns Whom -- Dun & Bradstreet's guide to the corporate structure of more than 23,000 parent companies and their 400,000 subsidiaries and associates worldwide (about £30 per report in March 2000)
• The World Bank
• yell.com -- Yellow Pages online

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