A good sites relating to life insurance is A M Best . This also has links to many other sites for all kinds of insurance intermediaries. Finally, the Ohio State University Business School has a Financial Data Finder that is superb. It has links to a very wide range of sites. More references will be added during the semester.
Financial news is now available on a timely basis.
It comes from a very wide variety of sources, including Yahoo , CNN Financial , the major newspapers, government agencies, and others. There is no excuse for being ill-informed. The publisher of your text has developed a web site that is an excellent complement to the text. The Mishkin web site has a Student Resources section with study questions, supplementary articles, a weekly news piece, and other materials. Because this is quite new I am uncertain exactly how it will be used but one use will be as a basis for weekly quizzes.