Selected Web Sites: Business and Economics

Bizlink: Your On-Line Business Resource: Company/industry research, international business, marketing & demographics, taxes, business forms, starting a business, patents & trademarks, career corner.
Brint Company Search Resources: Excellent resource page for company information.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Dept. of Labor: "The principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics."
CNNfn: CNN Financial News Network.
Corporate Information Research Site: Meta site for researching a company (publicly-traded, privately-held, foreign or domestic). Includes business ratios.Extensive listing, points to financial and economic data on the web and elsewhere.
FINWeb: The objective of this financial economics web server is to provide substantive information concerning economics and finance-related topics.
Hoover's Handbook: Company profiles, searchable by name, ticker symbol, sales or products. Only basic information is available to non-subscribers.
The globalEDGE Resource Desk's International Business Directory: Maintained by Michigan State University's Center for International Business Education and Research (MSU-CIBER), this site provides links to many relevant resources.
Portland Business Journal: Portland Business News.
Purchasing Power Profiles: From the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee's Employment and Training Institute.
U.S. Dept of Commerce International Trade Administration: Information for doing business overseas.
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission: Includes access to EDGAR database of corporate information (10K's etc.) and information for small businesses.
Vancouver Business Journal: Local business Information.
Washington Economic and Revenue Forecast: Washington State Office of the Forecast Council.
World Bank: Source for international economic reports.