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CNNMoney.com - a collaboration of CNN, Fortune magazine, and Money magazine - provides market data, news, tools, and other resources in a personalizable format for senior executives, small-business owners, affluent investors, and technology leaders. The site offers content covering a wide variety of investment interests presented to users in various media formats, including graphs and videos. In addition to market news, CNNMoney.com provides index averages, industry sector data, personal finance and small-business topics, calculators, and ranking lists.
The home and main pages are designed for easy navigation, with a menu for the major subject areas: business news, markets, newsletters, economy, technology, personal finance, and small business. The bottom area of each page provides a table of contents that groups resources by the main menu categories, magazine access, and site tools. Allowing an even more flexible search approach, a detailed site map presents material organized into news, markets, personal finance, and magazine categories.
Users can sign up for free watch list alerts, including company financial data, mutual funds, exchange traded funds, and breaking news stories. They can view large amounts of summary market data with drill-downs to more detailed information. In addition, they can watch a demonstration video and sign up for a two- week free trial of a Fortune 500+ web application program that provides access to the underlying annual data summarized on the website.
Company and Market Data
The website presents an extensive, welldeveloped collection of data on Fortune 500 and Fortune Global 500 companies. Users can peruse the Fortune 500 rankings of the largest U.S. corporations dating as far back as 1955 and the Global 500 winners dating back to 2005. The company information, organized by a variety of sorting options, includes links to individual webpages for each organization, with information on key financial numbers, profit ratios, earnings per share, return on investment, and industry rankings. The companies are also segregated into several "top company" categories: most profitable or least profitable; best investment; largest (based on several criteria); and new arrivals and departures. The Fortune 500 information also includes its list of the best companies to work for.
Users can view the full list of Fortune 500 companies with their respective revenues and profits in rank or alphabetical order, as well...