++ FINANCE NETWATCH ++ 15 December 95 ++ The Internet Newsletter For The FINANCE Industry ***************************************************************** FINANCE NETWATCH is a fortnightly newsletter compiled by Numa Financial Systems to monitor financial and investment developments on the internet. ***************************************************************** Headlines: US EXCHANGE - MIDAMERICA COMMODITY EXCHANGE SWISS EXCHANGE - BOURSE DE GENEVE CANADA INVESTMENT - ANTILLA FINANCIAL MASTER US FUTURES - STRASSER FUTURES US FUTURES - TIME LEVERAGE CAPITAL AUSTRIAN FUTURES - FLOORTRADER INVESTMENTS US INVESTMENT - A1.MYAGENT.COM US INVESTMENT - CAPITAL GROWTH MID-ATLANTIC US TRADING SYSTEM - COMMODEX OFFSHORE FUND MANAGEMENT - LORNE HOUSE OFFSHORE FINANCE - INTERFACE MANAGEMENT LTD FINANCIAL NEWS - CNN NEWS US RESEARCH - SMITH BARNEY WALL STREET WATCH BOND RESEARCH - STRATEGIC INVETMENT CONSULTANTS US FUNDS - INTERNET CLOSED END FUND INVESTOR UK FINANCE & INVESTMENT - THE SQUARE MILE US RESEARCH - VESTNET US COMMODITIES - PATHWAYS TO PROFIT US ECONOMICS - BALANCED BUDGET PAGE FUTURES CHAT ON INTERNET - #FUTURES TECHNICAL ANALYSIS - CHART OF THE DAY COMMODITY CHARTS - POINT AND FUGURE CHARTS PORTFOLIO TECHNOLOGY - ROBERT'S ONLINE PORTFOLIO PRICER TOKYO EXCHANGE SAYS INTERNET'S TOO FAST -------------------------------- *FINANCIAL COMPANIES ON THE NET* US EXCHANGE - MIDAMERICA COMMODITY EXCHANGE A basic introduction to the world of futures trading. http://www.midam.com/ SWISS EXCHANGE - BOURSE DE GENEVE Stock market and information about the exchange. http://www.bourse.ch/ US PERSONAL FINANCE - MONEYSENSE FINANCIAL PLANNING Provides college funding advice and other family financial planning services. http://ns1.win.net/~moneysense/ CANADA INVESTMENT - ANTILLA FINANCIAL MASTER Provides individuals and organizations with comprehensive insurance, investment, venture capital, tax planning, and financial services. http://www.islandnet.com/~cvcprod/anttila.html US FUTURES - STRASSER FUTURES A research, trading, and educational company with seminars and courses in futures trading. Also provides books, tapes, and charting software for commodities. http://www.webcom.com/~galleria/strasser/ US FUTURES - TIME LEVERAGE CAPITAL Introducing broker with wide range of information about futures and options. http://futures.netstations.com/home2.htm AUSTRIAN FUTURES - FLOORTRADER INVESTMENTS Allows investors to participate in a diversified portfolio of long and short positions in a variety of futures markets, across seven major sectors. http://www.floortrd.co.at/floortrd/ US INVESTMENT - A1.MYAGENT.COM Information for private investors of stocks, bonds, and mutual funds in their portfolio emailed daily. http://www.myagent.com US INVESTMENT - CAPITAL GROWTH MID-ATLANTIC A journal of record for emerging growth financing, private equity, and debt investing in the Mid-Atlantic region. http://www.netsmarts.com/capgrowth US TRADING SYSTEM - COMMODEX Product and contact information for a daily futures trading system. http://www.commodex.com/ OFFSHORE FUND MANAGEMENT - LORNE HOUSE Located in the Isle of Man as a portfolio, trust and corporate management company. http://www.lorne-house.com/ OFFSHORE FINANCE - INTERFACE MANAGEMENT LTD An international offshore business management, finance and tax consultants based in the Channel Islands. http://www.interface-management.com/ -------------------------------- *FINANCE REFERENCE* FINANCIAL NEWS - CNN NEWS Business news and markets information, updated daily. http://www.cnnfn.com/index.html US RESEARCH - SMITH BARNEY WALL STREET WATCH Features research and analysis on selected stocks, investment information, and Tradeline pricing data. Products and services include bonds, mutual funds, retirement planning, and money management. http://nestegg.iddis.com/smithbarney BOND RESEARCH - STRATEGIC INVETMENT CONSULTANTS Provides fixed-income research and consulting services to institutional bond investors. The site contains over 200 reports, updated daily. http://www.well.com/user/tonydelo US FUNDS - INTERNET CLOSED END FUND INVESTOR Research information provided by internet and newsletter on US closed end funds. http://www.icefi.com/ UK FINANCE & INVESTMENT - THE SQUARE MILE A new source of information for finance and investmentprofessionals. Interests cover Foreign Exchange, Money Markets, Capital Markets and Derivatives - the markets, and the supporting technology. http://www.textor.com/markets/ US RESEARCH - VESTNET A free, new service for online investors which offers in-depth research, industry analysis, public company information, stock quotes, business news. http://www.vestnet.com US COMMODITIES - PATHWAYS TO PROFIT Lists investment opportunities in heating oil, gasoline, treasury bonds, stock indexes. Also free newsletter and cassette tape on options, commodities futures, speculation, and financial. http://ptpnet.com US INVESTMENT - INVESTMENT PROMOTION AGENCY NETWORK A subscription-based global information exchange, marketing and communications network on foreign, direct investment-related matters. http://www.ipanet.net/ US FINANCE - EDS FINANCIAL SERVICES DIV Financial Net "strives to be the premier provider of financial-industry information resources on the Internet" http://www.financial-net.com US ECONOMICS - BALANCED BUDGET PAGE Read the GOP balanced budget and try a hand at balancing the federal budget using the Budget Simulator. http://www.house.gov/white/budget/budget.html FUTURES CHAT ON INTERNET - #FUTURES Information on the internet relay chat channel #futures. Talk about various commodities and futures, trading systems and price trends http://www.netvoyage.net/~slappy/ TECHNICAL ANALYSIS - CHART OF THE DAY Provides technical analysis of a more or less randomly selected stock each market day. The analysis is presented as a set of sixteen graphs. http://www.ziggurat.com/tcotd/notices/intro.htm COMMODITY CHARTS - POINT AND FUGURE CHARTS Experimental web site with point and figure charts for about 30 futures contracts. http://www.teleport.com/~znmeb/pfcindex.htm PORTFOLIO TECHNOLOGY - ROBERT'S ONLINE PORTFOLIO PRICER Beta test site for a Java written portfolio program. http://www.intrepid.com/~robertl/index.html SURVEY - INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR Wall Street & the Internet Survey - Institutional Investor invites users to participate in a survey for an upcoming newsletter. http://edgar.stern.nyu.edu/survey.html -------------------------------- *INTERNET RESOURCES* TOKYO EXCHANGE SAYS INTERNET'S TOO FAST Because of "insider trading" restrictions that ban company officials and media representatives from dealing in securities for 12 hours after they learn earnings results, the Tokyo Stock Exchange wants companies to stop sending such results over the Internet right after they're announced in news conferences. MICROSOFT AND NBC ALL-NEWS CHANNEL Microsoft and NBC are near to agreeing to form an all-news network to challenge CNN and another new cable channel planned by ABC. PAY-PER-USE SOFTWARE British Columbia's Simon Fraser University has developed NCompass, which belongs to a new generation of software based on the idea that consumers will buy the right to use programs over the Internet on a pay-per-use basis. -------------------------------- *CAUGHT IN THE NET* UNGAME SOFTWARE A new software program finds and eliminates games on network servers and hard drives. It can identify 3,100 kinds of games, even when their file names have been disguised. DVD's president estimates game-playing at work costs the U.S. some $50 billion a year in lost productivity, assuming 40 million users spend 30 minutes a week playing games, at an average cost of $50 an hour. ***************************************************************** FINANCE netWATCH is produced by Numa Financial Systems Ltd, a specialist in technology and internet services for the financial industry. For more information please contact: zippy mail : netwatch@numa.com speaky mail : +44 1225 72 30 72 picture mail : +44 1225 72 30 72 snail mail : PO Box 1736, Bradford On Avon, Wilts, BA15 2YS, UK Copyright 1995 Numa Financial Systems Ltd *****************************************************************