Most of the financial sites on the Web are informative. The sites promising to save the Internet generation from financial disaster have made their case to technology trendsetters. The following list is intended to be a useful guide to what may or may not be an interesting resource for those with an interest in world financial markets, whether of general interest, or niche interest:

1. ICICI Direct.com

This is really a good site for those who are interested in purchasing and selling shares online In ICICI Direct.com, you can catch up with the latest trends in trading of stocks, shares and mutual funds. ICICI Direct.com recently announced the launch of stock market recommendation in Hindi for its customers.

There are various easily understanding and user friendly screens of icicidirect.com lets you do your transactions hassle free. That means if you want to buy equity share, then there is a trading window on the site. You have to click on that option. That populates all the tasks that can be done by the customer. You can click on the Buy link if you want to purchase stocks and fill up the require information and submit it. That’s it. Your transaction is completed

2. cbsmarketwatch.com

CBS MarketWatch, a leading publisher of business and financial news, offers users up-to-the minute news, investment tools, and subscription products. The editorial team contributes financial and economic reports to the CBS EVENING NEWS WITH DAN RATHER and CBS News’ THIS MORNING. In addition, its correspondents appear on CBS affiliated and owned stations nation-wide through CBS NEWSPATH. CBS MarketWatch account will benefits you to: manage your portfolio, virtual stock exchange, to set up your CBS MarketWatch alerts.

3. Mint.com Tracks

Mint.com Tracks is a money management site which lets you track all your physical assets. Surely, you have to register for on-line access to all your credit cards and banks. You will then provide your user name and password to them.  Mint’s security advisory is reassuring. They then get all your up to date statements and poll your financial institutions and download your transactions continuously. New transactions are categorized by an AI-like algorithm  and you set thresholds for alerts to be sent to you.

For security, Mint seems to have taken a page from PageOnce in letting you enable or disable mobile access from Mint.com. If your phone gets lost or stolen, you can simply cut off its access to your account, keeping any would-be identity thieves from taking a look at past purchases, or getting an idea of your net worth.

4.  The Motley

The Motley Fool is a web site devoted to helping average people make better investment and financial decisions.There are Fool books and articles and speeches about how active management seldom works, and how the best fund managers are the ones with long, consistent records and ultra-low costs. Essentially, CAPS is an aggregator of information about stock picks from Motley Fool employees and readers. It is completely free to browse the ratings and blog postings of the CAPS users, to join, and to make picks of your own.

5. SpendingDiary

SpendingDiary is a web service that provides you with a simple way to track daily expenses online. It aims to make this as useful as possible so new features are being worked on all the time. The site has a completely functional demonstration account available—a nice touch that makes it really easy to test drive without handing over an email address. SpendingDiary has a simple interface—for every entry you assign a name, a category, and the amount you spent. You can generate reports for the day, week, month, or a custom date range, and your expenses displayed in a slick pie graph, broken into the tags you’ve set up.

6. Money Manager Ex 0.9.4.2

Money Manager Ex is a simple, and very easy to use personal finance software that can be run directly from a portable device. Money Manager includes all the basic features that 90% of users would want to see in a personal finance application.  It can be used to track your net worth, income vs expenses etc.  It also supports 18 different languages.

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7. Yahoo! Finance

Yahoo finance presents a comprehensive picture of the current financial situation both at national and international levels. At national level it depicts the state of economy of the country that Yahoo serves. Yahoo! Finance offers information including stock quotes, stock exchange rates, corporate press releases and financial reports, and popular message boards for discussing a company’s prospects and stock valuation. It also offers some hosted tools for personal finance management.

8. Kiplinger

Kiplinger is trusted personal finance advice, business forecasting, investing advice, and financial management tools. Kiplinger answers the queries of its readers as a regular feature of their subscriptions, filling requests for additional information on any subject its publications covers, by phone, mail or email.

The pioneer of personal finance journalism, Kiplinger’s is the authoritative source on how to invest, manage, and spend money for more than one million affluent, educated, and self-directed readers each month. Whether your interest is in stocks, bonds, mutual funds, or real estate, you’ll find clear, concise, and unbiased information and advice from the most trusted name in personal finance journalism today

9. Zopa

Zopa is an acronym for ‘zone of possible agreement’    is another fruit of  Web 2.0. Zopa is the first international peer-to-peer lending company, with operations in the U.S., the United Kingdom, Italy. Wwhosoever in need of money, have to reports on the website zopa.com and announced how much is the requirement, for what period under, what interest he is prepared to pay. Bidders can participate (in English) with between 10 and 25,000 pounds or more if a licensing deal. Then they deposited the money into a special account in his name and under a pre-agreed annualized and then they also determine the amount of borrowing by the debtor.

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Thursday, March 26th, 2009 at 4:22 pm | by Kur-nia-one |