What are the best websites for investors?


Question:
I am a university student with a decent understanding of the stock market. I have decided to invest some of my monies and would like to know where to go for research purposes. What are the best websites when it comes to business news, stock market tools, analysts ratings and everything else to do with the economy and both the domestic and international markets.

I am aware of CNNmoney, msnbc, yahoofinance. Please inform me of your favourites, preferably not any of the ones I mentioned above although you are free to advise me which one of those I mentioned are the best.

Answer:
OK -- big topic area...

Most comprehensive financial statements data:

-- http://www.advfn.com

Additional general data sites:

-- http://www.businessweek.com
-- http://moneycentral.msn.com
-- http://www.reuters.com/
-- http://www.zacks.com

Best charting tools:

-- http://www.stockcharts.com
-- http://www.prophet.net

Best stock screening tools:

-- http://www.investor.reuters.com/nscreen/...
-- http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/fin...
-- http://prosearch.businessweek.com/busine...
-- http://www.advfn.com/p.php?pid=usfilterx...

Best industry-related data:

-- http://www.prophet.net/explore/sectorper...
-- http://tal.marketgauge.com/
-- http://www.tscn.com/wscwin/industry_grou...
-- http://www2.barchart.com/secmoves.asp?wh...

Best Technical Tools:

-- http://www.stockfetcher.com
-- http://www.wealth-lab.com
-- http://quote.barchart.com/performance.as...

Best daily stock scans:

-- http://stockcharts.com/def/servlet/sc.sc...
-- http://www.investor.reuters.com/screenpe...
-- http://www.marketscreen.com/report/index...
Morningstar.com
excellent research tool

Investopedia.com
excellent knowledge base

Caps.fool.com
follow other investors
I have my list:

marketwatch.com (news)
321gold.com (gold, dollar, and metal stocks)
321energy.com (energy investing)
mineralstox.com (various sectors)
top10traders.com (interesting and good for learning via paper trading)
gmoolah.blogspot.com (my blog but not for the novice investor)
stockcharts.com. (great charts and nice lessons on chart reading)
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