Finance

A subscription service that provides business news and bond market news. It's included here because some content is available for free.
Among the items available are:

• Chart Builder, which allows the creation of custom stock charts.
  
• Fund Center, a ranking of international funds.
  
• Currency Calculator
  
• Current Market Data.
  

SIFMA is an organization that looks to the concerns of securities firms, banks and asset managers. Among the topics covered on the website are: Legislative news, conference information, research papers, comment letters, and regulatory issues.

This pages lists daily interest rates for U.S. Treasury and private money market and capital market instruments. Among these are: Treasury Bills, Interest Rate Swaps, Corporate Bonds (AAA and BBB) and State & Local Bonds and Conventional Mortgages.

U.S. Treasury, agency, corporate and municipal bonds as well as credit rating information and price information for corporate and agency bonds (TRACE).

U.S. and foreign government bonds with a Bond Spread Calculator that allows the rates of different countries to be compared.

Bond data with basic explanations of bonds and bond markets.

The MSRB publishes a municipal market statistics here and on the EMMA website.

An annual compilation of statistics about the municipal bond market.

EMMA is the official repository for information on virtually all municipal bonds, providing free public access to official disclosures, trade data and other information about the municipal securities market. A publication of the MSRB. (see above)

Basic information about the Moody's ratings of bonds is available here.
A subscription is required to view the full reports.

Detailed information about state & local finances.

Users can buy and redeem securities directly from the U.S. Department of the Treasury here.

From the U.S. Bureau of Public Debt, this website includes federal debt schedules, and daily, annual, and monthly debt data. Includes Public Debt Reports.

Provides information about transactions and holdings of foreign securities held by U.S. owners and foreign holdings of U.S. securities. Banking data and derivatives contracts are also reported.

Some publications are fee-based, but many of the industry statistics and public policy highlight reports are available for free.