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You can use these tips for evaluating websites, memes, social media posts, and more.

Test your fake news detection skills with the links below! 

Are the following sites credible, reliable, and suitable to use for college-level research? You be the judge!

Find news reports, articles, and opinions about current business events using these newspapers through ProQuest:

• The Wall Street Journal
• The New York Times
• The Washington Post

Find basic company background, financial information, competitors, SWOT analyses, industry trends and more with these two business databases: 

• Hoover's (D&B Hoover's)

• Gale Business: Insights

Download charts and graphs about your company with the Wall Street Journal site.

• Wall Street Journal (free version)

• For stock charts:
  • In Wall Street Journal site, use Advanced Charting.
  • Check the time frame for the stock graph.
    • Use 1Y, one year. (1M is one month; YTD is year to date).
  • To copy a website's graph, use your computer's snipping tool. (Windows computers: search for Snipping Tool, or use Windows/Shift/S keys.)
    • Add/remove comparisons to the charts: Dow Jones Industrial Average, others in the industry, or a specific company's ticker symbol. 
• For stock prices: go to Wall Street Journal > Research and Ratings > Historical Prices to see stock closing prices. 
• Annual reports:
  • Hoover's may provide current annual reports.
  • Sometimes it's easiest to Google the company name and "annual report" or "10-K". 
  • Or, go to the company's home page and look for "investor Relations," often at the bottom of a page.
     

If you'd like more research about your companies, try these: 

• Statista

  Download PDF or slides; offers citations (under quote mark icon).

• Yahoo Finance Page

Check out these websites for business news, reports, charts, and graphs: