Business

Bureau of Labor Statistics
Statistics include unemployment rates, average earnings and consumer price index.

Business.gov
This web site gathers information from many federal and state agencies in one location, including information about business licenses, business permits and starting small businesses.

Business Licenses in North Carolina
The North Carolina Commerce web site contains information regarding business licenses required by state agencies and occupational licensing boards.

Business Source Premier
Search through more than 2,300 national and international business journals, as well as company profiles, country reports, industry profiles and market research reports. This database includes Entrepreneur magazine and is useful for small business owners, investors, managers and business students.

Morningstar Investment Research Center
The Morningstar Investment Research Center covers mutual funds, stocks and exchange-traded funds for the individual investor. Read in-depth, independent stock and fund reports written by experts with the proprietary Morningstar Rating and Style Box.

NC LIVE Business Portal
The Business Portal is designed for local entrepreneurs, investors, and small business owners who are looking to get their business started, or grow their customer base, and contains free access to full-text articles from the Wall Street Journal, expensive market research data, demographic mapping, company listings from ReferenceUSA, information on starting a small business, business planning, investment research, and more.

Reference USA
This searchable database includes addresses and phone numbers on more than 12 million U.S. businesses, 102 million U.S. residents, and 683,000 U.S. health care providers.

Simply Maps
Get business and marketing data for almost any location in the United States to help you write your business plan.

Small Business Administration
The Small Business Administration provides assistance on starting, expanding and financing a small business.

Wall Street Journal
The financial newspaper of record offers in-depth coverage of national and international finance, as well as coverage of hard news. This web site contains an index of articles from 1981 with many complete articles from1984 to the present.