++ FINANCE NETWATCH ++ 20 October 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: UK BANK - BANKNET US FUTURES - JOHN HENRY & CO INC CANADA BANK - CANADA TRUST SWISS INVESTMENT - MATTERHORN INVESTMENT CORP GREEK BANK - HELLENIC INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BANK US INVESTMENT - ZASKE, SARAFA and ASSOC. US INVESTMENT - WALL STREET ONLINE EUROPE RESEARCH - FRANKFURT MONEY STRATEGIST S AFRICA JOURNAL - SOUTH AFRICA FINANCE WEEK US INVESTMENT - MKTS.COM US STOCK ANALYSIS - EPS SURPRISE STUDY US FUTURES - BARCLAY TRADING GROUP US STOCK ANALYSIS - BILLINGTON'S STOCK FOCUS ORACLE PLANS "WEB TV" VISA HOME-BANKING SOFTWARE AT&T SIGNS WITH TURNER FOR BUSINESS CONTENT -------------------------------- *FINANCIAL COMPANIES ON THE NET* UK BANK - BANKNET An online banking service offering the facilities of a Secure Trust current account. http://mkn.co.uk/help/bank/info US FUTURES - JOHN HENRY & CO INC Variety of information about one of the largest managed futures advisors in the world, including links to other financial resources. http://www.jwh.com CANADA BANK - CANADA TRUST One of the largest financial institutions in Canada, with $37 billion in deposits and $167 billion in assets under administration. http://www.canadatrust.com SWISS INVESTMENT - MATTERHORN INVESTMENT CORP Information for wealthy individuals and entrepreneurs on Swiss banking, foreign exchange, portfolio management, life insurance, international trade support, and estate and tax planning. http://www.winnet.net/mattinvest GREEK BANK - HELLENIC INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BANK Promotes activities in industry, tourism, shipping, commerce, and other sectors. http://www.etba.gr/etba/etbae.html US INVESTMENT - ZASKE, SARAFA and ASSOC. Registered SEC investment advisor providing investment management services to institutions and individuals with minimum investments of $500,000. http://www.zsa.com US COMPETITION - inSight inFormation Weekly inSight inFormation Weekly Stock-Picking Contest http://avidinfo.com/CONTEST.HTM -------------------------------- *FINANCE REFERENCE* US INVESTMENT - WALL STREET ONLINE A collection of daily investment advisory services which include Prostock, Gabriel Advisory Service, the Seven Percent Solution, Instant Advisor, Fibond, and the IPO Outlook. http://www.wso.com/wso/ EUROPE RESEARCH - FRANKFURT MONEY STRATEGIST Reporting weekly on European money and politics, and offering a free copy to Internet subscribers. http://www.fmstrategist.com/fms S AFRICA JOURNAL - SOUTH AFRICA FINANCE WEEK South Africa's leading financial publication now publishes weekly lead stories. http://africa.com/mags/finweek/ US INVESTMENT - MKTS.COM Providing information, services, free home pages and a U.S.Treasury bond market overview. http://www.mkts.com US STOCK ANALYSIS - EPS SURPRISE STUDY A quantitative study by California State University at Northridge, Encino, CA of more than 400 stocks, examining the reaction when earnings come in above or below the consensus estimates. http://www.csun.edu/~hbfin007/EPSHOME.HTM US FUTURES - BARCLAY TRADING GROUP A research library and central meeting place for the free exchange of information about the managed futures industry. http://www.fairfield.com/barclay/index.html US STOCK ANALYSIS - BILLINGTON'S STOCK FOCUS An investment, venture capital, and stock information site with newsletter. http://www.billingtons.com US INVESTMENT - INVESTOR RESOURCE INDEX A comprehensive index of investment-related Web pages and forums online. http://www.csn.net/~johnhart/investor.html US SOFTWARE VIGA TECHNOLOGIES Investment education through software, providing retirement and investment planning solutions. http://www.viga.com/viga -------------------------------- *INTERNET RESOURCES* ORACLE PLANS "WEB TV" Oracle Corp. is developing a low-cost network computer designed to download video content from the Internet. Called "Web TV", the device should cost $500, and enable video-conferencing, news-on-demand and financial news. VISA HOME-BANKING SOFTWARE Visa International introduced its home-banking software that allows bank customers to balance checkbooks, pay bills and transfer money between accounts. AT&T SIGNS WITH TURNER FOR BUSINESS CONTENT AT&T has reached an exclusive agreement with Turner Broadcasting System to deliver its CNN financial news over AT&T's new online Business Network. INTUIT TO PROVIDE INTERNET ACCESS DIRECTLY FROM QUICKEN Intuit announced that they will bundle Netscape and internet access with their personal finance package Quicken. they also announced the launch of the "Quicken Financial Network". -------------------------------- *CAUGHT IN THE NET* >> Number of subscribers to Internet World magazine: 208,000 Number of subscribers to Cosmopolitan: 2.3 million Percentage of advertisements containing URLS, in the first 18 pages of the September, 1995, issue of Scientific American: 50 Percentage of advertisements containing toll-free telephone numbers, in the first 18 pages of the September, 1995, issue of Scientific American: 90 Number of SEC documents downloaded from the SEC's Edgar database on the Internet: 3.1 million Number of digits of pi available on the Internet: 3.2 billion Time taken to compute those digits: 37 hours << ***************************************************************** FINANCE netWATCH is produced by Numa Financial Systems Ltd, a specialist in technology and internet services for the financial industry. 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