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Currency Exchange
Rates
Pacific Exchange
Rate Service fx.sauder.ubc.ca
A service for academic research and teaching provided by Prof. Werner Antweiler at UBC's Sauder School of Business. Historical daily exchange rates are available for 87 currencies,
some going back to 1971.
Oanda Currency Convertor www.oanda.com
Includes options for generating tables and graphs of historical data
some of which goes back to 1990. The tables can be formatted as HTML,
ASCII or CSV.
Global Financial Data www.globalfinancialdata.com
Current and Historical Data for the United States and over 150 countries,
including stock markets from 1690, exchange rates from 1590, interest
rates from 1700, commodities from 1500 and inflation from 1264. Data
are recorded daily, weekly, monthly, and annually. There are several
free annual data series including: inflation rates since 1264, interest
rates since 1700, commodity prices since 1257, exchange rates since
1800. Subscriptions to the priced service range from USD 25 for some
individual files to several thousand dollars for an annual subscription
to the entire database.
Libor Rates
BBA – British Bankers' Association - Libor Home
www.bbalibor.com
Provides access to current and historic Libor rates in Excel and text format and going
back to 1986.
The BBA provides free two month delayed bbalibor data in a monthly format going back to December 2008, Older data is available under license.
Bankhawk Banking Advisors - Historical Libor Rates
www.bankhawk.co.uk/financial-services/libor-rates/
Historical Libor rates going back to 2002.
Purchasing Power over Time
Current
Value of Old Money
www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/current/howmuch.html
Currency Abbreviations
World Currencies - Listed by ISO 4217 Currency Abbreviation
www.jhall.demon.co.uk/currency/by_abbrev.html
See also World Currencies - Listed by Currency Name
www.jhall.demon.co.uk/currency/by_currency.html and World Currencies - Listed by Country Name
www.jhall.demon.co.uk/currency/by_country.html
Countries in the Eurozone
Eurozone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurozone
European Central Bank: Map of euro area 1999 – 2009
www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/intro/html/map.en.html
VAT
VAT Number Validation ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/vieshome.do
Validate any EU VAT number by selecting the member state and entering the VAT number.
VAT Rates
Applied in the Member States of the European Community ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/resources/documents/
taxation/vat/how_vat_works/rates/vat_rates_en.pdf
PricewaterhouseCoopers:
Global VAT Online
www.globalvatonline.pwcglobal.com
Priced service only.
UK Base Rates /
Interest Rates
Bank
of England Monetary and Financial Statistics Division www.bankofengland.co.uk/statistics/index.htm
Links to detailed information on exchange rates and interest rates.
The Official Bank Rate History section provides details of UK interest
rates, and when they became effective, going back to 1975 in spreadsheet, CSV, HTML and XML formats.
Industry Classification
Codes
Europa - RAMON ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/
If you don't know your NACE from your HS6, this site has many of the
coding systems in use around the world including the Harmonized Commodity
Description used in trade statistics services. Codes can be viewed online
or downloaded in various formats.
UK SIC 2007 Codes www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/product.asp?vlnk=14012
North American
Industry Classification System
www.census.gov/eos/www/naics/
Property/Real Estate (UK)
Land Registry www.landregistry.gov.uk
The Land Registry guarantees the title to, and records the ownership
of, interests in registered land in England and Wales.
Our Property - Property and
house prices revealed OurProperty.co.uk
One of the many services that repackage data from the Land Registry
of England and Wales, and the Registers of Scotland. It gives the the address of the property,
the date it was sold and how much it was sold for. It does not give
the name of the owner or the name of the lender. There is also an email
alerting service that enables you to monitor house prices up to 500
meters from a post code.
The data goes back to 2000 and covers England, Wales and Scotland.
House Prices - Nationwide
Building Society www.nationwide.co.uk/hpi/
Land Registers of Scotland
www.ros.gov.uk
Environment Agency
www.environment-agency.gov.uk
Information on flood risk and pollution available by location or post
code.
Images of England
www.imagesofengland.org.uk
Web site set up by English Heritage National Monuments Record containing
information about listed buildings.
Street Maps
Google Maps maps.google.co.uk
Can combine street map with "local search" for business, restaurants
etc.
Bing Maps www.bing.com/maps
Streetmap - Maps and directrions for the whole of Freat Britain www.streetmap.co.uk
Multimap www.multimap.com
Postal Services
UK Postcodes and Royal Mail postal rates
Royal Mail www.royalmail.co.uk
UK Parcel Force
Parcel Force www.parcelforce.com
UK licensed postal operators
Licensed postal operators - Postcomm www.psc.gov.uk/licensed-postal-operators.html
Lists the 28 organisations licensed to operate postal services in the UK.
Post and Zip codes World-wide
Links to Postcode Pages
www.grcdi.nl/linkspc.htm
UK Electoral Roll
UK Electoral Roll www.192.com
- Priced service.
UK telephone codes and number "look-up" databases
Online CodeLook
www.telecom-tariffs.co.uk/codelook.htm
Searchable web database but number of lookups is restricted. There is
also a windows application that can be downloaded to look-up partial
telephone numbers to find the locality and tariff band, and to look-up
localities to find the code. Available to members only.
Say No to 0870 www.saynoto0870.com
Database of alternative geographic telephone numbers for
0800, 0808, 0844, 0845, 0870 and 0871 numbers.
Who Calls Me? whocallsme.com
"A user supplied database of phone numbers of telemarketers, non-profit organizations, charities, political surveyors, SCAM artists, and other companies that don't leave messages, disconnect once you answer, ignore the Do-Not-Call List regulations, and simply interrupt your day. If you received a strange call, most likely you are not the only one. Search for the phone number to see the reports of others. If there are no reports yet, leave your comment to start a conversation."
Telephone Directories
Telephone Directories on the
Web www.infobel.com
Annotated list of online telephone directories organised by continent
and country.
Acronyms and definitions
Acronym Finder www.acronymfinder.com
Acronyma www.acronyma.com
Google define: command www.google.com
Prefix your acronym or word with define:
For example define: GDP
Travel
BAA - UK Flight Arrivals, Flight Timetable,
Airport News
www.baa.com
Real time information on flight arrivals at Heathrow, Stansted,
Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Southampton.
Dohop - low cost flight search engine
www.dohop.com
National Rail - the Gateway
to Britain's National Rail Network
www.nationalrail.co.uk
Links to UK train companies, timetables, types of ticket, train
running information (for example problems with the rail network in general,
delays to services).
Trainline www.thetrainline.com
Ticket and reservation service.
Transport Direct - Connecting
People to Places www.transportdirect.info
Information on buses and trains in the UK.
Transport for London www.tfl.gov.uk
Information and news on buses, underground (tube) and trains in London as well as a journey planner. To buy or top up your Oyster Card go to Oyster online at https://oyster.tfl.gov.uk/oyster/
Biographies
Answers.com - Online Dictionary,
Encyclopedia and much more www.answers.com/
Pulls together information from a variety of resources including Wikipedia.
Wikipedia www.wikipedia.org
The different language versions of Wikipedia are not always translations
of each other, but sometimes contain articles by different authors with a different bias. Some celebrity and politicians' biographies are obviously written by their PR office but viewing previous versions of the articles using the history option can reveal additional information. Bear in mind, though, that information may not be correct and may be deliberately misleading.
Credo Reference www.credoreference.com Formerly xRefer. Provides access to information from a wide range of established and respected publishers. Priced
service.
Biography Center www.biography-center.com
Who2 www.who2.com
Biographies of famous people including classic authors, movie stars,
kings and queens, mythical gods, cartoon characters.
Who named it www.whonamedit.com
A biographical dictionary of medical eponyms
Online Bookshops
Amazon
UK www.amazon.co.uk
Amazon US Bookshop www.amazon.com
Abebooks www.abebooks.com
and www.abebooks.co.uk (formerly Just Books)
Second hand, out of print and antiquarian books.
Blackwell's bookshop.blackwell.co.uk
BookMooch www.bookmooch.co.uk
A community for exchanging used books that lets you give away books you no longer need in exchange for books you really want.
Foyles www.foyles.co.uk
Golden Books Group - Leather bound books, used books and book sets, bookstore www.goldenbooksgroup.co.uk Antiquarian leather bound books, book sets and rare book dealers. Also stockists of antiquarian prints, maps, antiques and fine art.
iBooknet: the independent booksellers' network www.ibooknet.org British cooperative of used books booksellers. Over 500,000 books listed by 40 established independent booksellers. Books bought and sold.
viaLibri www.vialibri.net Searches for old and rare books on eighteen different web sites that aggregate the inventory of hundreds of antiquarian booksellers world-wide.
Waterstones www.waterstones.com
Weather
BBC Weather www.bbc.co.uk/weather/
The Met Office www.metoffice.gov.uk
Yahoo Weather weather.yahoo.co.uk
Translation Sites
Most of the sites listed below are machine translation sites or
give you links to translation sites. They can be useful for obtaining
rough and ready translations of text and Web pages but the results should
be treated with caution.
Yahoo Babelfish
uk.babelfish.yahoo.com
Google Language Tools www.google.com
Click on the language tools option on the home page.
Online Dictionaries
and Translators www.word2word.com/dictionary.html
Free Translation of Web and
Text www.freetranslation.com
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