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The following is a list of useful Internet links to economic and financial data and information from around the world.

CENTRAL BANKS

European Central Bank www.ecb.int
Bank of Japan www.boj.or.jp/en/index.htm
US Federal Reserve www.federalreserve.gov
US Federal Reserve Bank of NY www.ny.frb.org
Bank of England www.bankofengland.co.uk
Swiss National Bank www.snb.ch/e/index3.html
Reserve Bank of Australia www.rba.gov.au/
Bank of Canada www.bankofcanada.ca/en/

INTERNATIONAL

Bank of International Settlements www.bis.org
International Monetary Fund www.imf.org
The World Bank www.worldbank.org
International Finance Corporation www.ifc.org
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development www.oecd.org
The Institute for International Economics www.iie.com
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries www.opec.org
International Energy Agency www.iea.org/
Yahoo Finance biz.yahoo.com/ifc
Nouriel Roubini's Global Macroeconomic & Financial Policy Site www.stern.nyu.edu/globalmacro/
Giancarlo Corsetti's Euro Homepage www.econ.yale.edu/~corsetti/euro/Euroit.htm

REGION-SPECIFIC RESOURCES

US
US Treasury www.treas.gov
Bureau of Economic Analysis www.bea.doc.gov/bea/rels.htm
National Bureau of Economic Research www.nber.org
The National Association for Business Economists www.nabe.com
Financial Markets Center www.fmcenter.org
USA Fedstates A to Z www.fedstats.gov
American Stock Exchange www.amex.com
New York Stock Exchange www.nyse.com
NASDAQ www.nasdaq.com
New York Mercantile Exchange www.nymex.com
Chicago Board of Trade www.cbot.com
Chicago Board Options Exchange www.cboe.com
Chicago Board of Trade www.cbot.com
Chicago Mercantile Exchange www.cme.com
Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Exchange www.nybot.com
Kansas City Board of Trade www.kcbt.com
Mid-America Commodity Exchange www.midam.com
Minneapolis Grain Exchange www.mgex.com
New York Cotton Exchange www.nybot.com
Philadelphia Exchange www.philex.com

EUROPE

EUROSTAT europa.eu.int/comm/eurostat
Institute for Economic Research (Germany) www.ifo.de/orcl/dbssi/main_e.htm
German Institute of Economic Research www.diw-berlin.de
Confederation of British Industry www.cbi.org.uk
National Institute of Economic and Social Research (UK) www.niesr.ac.uk
Italy National Institute of Statistics www.istat.it
National Institution of Statistics and Economic Studies (France) www.insee.fr
Spain National Institute of Statistics www.ine.es
London Stock Exchange www.londonstockexchange.com
London Futures Exchange www.liffe.com
London Metal Exchange www.lme.co.uk
London Stock Exchange www.stockex.co.uk
Deutsche Bourse www.xetra.de/INTERNET/XETRA/index.htm
International Petroleum Exchange www.ipe.uk.com

ASIA

Japan's Ministry of Finance www.mof.go.jp/english/index.htm
Economic Planning Agency www.epa.go.jp/e-e/menu.html
Ministry of International Trade and Industry www.miti.go.jp/english/index.html
Japanese Statistics Bureau www.stat.go.jp/english/1.htm
Singapore Department of Statistics www.singstat.gov.sg
Hong Kong Futures Exchange www.hkfe.com
Singapore Exchange www.simex.com
Sydney Futures Exchange, Ltd. www.sfe.com.au
Tokyo Stock Exchange www.tse.or.jp/eindex.html