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• Bond prices
  • Corporates (from NASD TRACE)
  • Municipals (from NASD TRACE)
  • MBS (from Reuters)
  • U.S. Treasuries (from GOVPX)
• FASB
  • Like legal opinions, the dissents are frequently more interesting reading than the majority opinions.
• Federal Reserve links
  • Rates updated daily by the FED
  • Delinquency and charge-off information updated quarterly
  • Survey of Terms of Business Lending updated quarterly
• FMS Links page
• The Financial Managers Society (FMS) has well-thought out links to all bank regulators, FHLBs, and others, so we don’t need to duplicate the links.
• Interest rate links
  • National, local, and average rate information for a variety of products from Bankrate.com
  • Consumer, home equity, and mortgage rates from Banx.com
  • Bloomberg offers some market data at their website instead Bond market rates from Bloomberg.com
  • Hybrid mortgage rates from HSH Associates Financial Publishers
  • ARM indices from Mortgage-x.com
• Loan delinquency information
  • For keeping up-to-date on prime & subprime mortgage performance from the Mortgage Bankers Association
• Mortgage prepayment projection (consensus) from SIFMA.org
• Professional Organizations & Designations
• CFAI
• “A global membership organization that awards the Chartered Financial Analyst® (CFA®) designation, CFA Institute leads the investment industry by setting the highest standards of ethics and professional excellence and vigorously advocating fair and transparent capital markets."
• AICPA
• “Committed to member service and the public interest, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and its predecessors have been serving the accounting profession since 1887.”