Each of the search engines has its own conventions and strengths. Altavista is usually a good starting point. It allows advanced searches where several key words can be listed as essential and where searches can be narrowed by date, language or country. Some of the material highlighted will only be available on the Web and some will be online versions of printed publications. The London Stock Exchange and Wall Street are easily found and the great advantage with the online information is that it1s usually the most recent.
Some traders now operate online using information which is just as readily available to schools.
It1s obviously beneficial for students to access primary sources directly, enabling them to make their own judgements with no hints from the media. Nevertheless many financial journals are also good sources. The Financial Times requires you to register but the form-filling only occurs on the first visit to the site and the service is actually free. As an exercise, students could register themselves. They would get their own username and password for the site and it would also provide evidence that they had completed a business form effectively.