Fidelity Investments (FMR) is a private company founded in 1946. It is famous for the broad range of investments it offers to other companies as well as to families and individuals. Recently, it has been playing a very important role in the global financial crisis. www.fidelity.com is its official website. If you visit this website, I am sure that you will find it very helpful.

In the “Today’s Highlights” section, you can find the latest news about the global financial situation. With its help, you won’t miss any important point.

Below this section here comes the “Personal Finance” section. I think it is useful for people of almost all ages. It is divided into four parts, namely, College, Retirement, Saving & Spending, and Taxes, so it answers almost all the questions respectively. For example, in College part, someone asks how graduates can overcome investment phobia; it gives a very practical answer in detail, which is to “demystify the market, get discount advice, try peer counseling, and start early”. Do you think the advice is very important for college students? Well, I think so. Besides, in the lower right corner of this section, it offers some tips for college students. The tips are like some principles which college students should obey when they are about to enter the society. This is really considerate. And please don’t forget there are three other parts in this section, and people of all age can get the tips.

The next section is “Investing Tips & Tools”. When you get started, what should you do? What if you come across some difficulties? You can find answers here.

Experts are always authoritative in guidance giving. When you have some questions, you also turn to experts for answers, don’t you? OK, the next section is “Experts Insights”, where you can find the guidance of your investment in stock market, the financial situation in the next week… With the experts’ insights, you can stay calm even when you are confronting some difficulties.

There are some people who make the financial system run. They are always mysterious in front of the public, but they are admired by common players. Do you know what they do? Well, in the next section “Play & Profit”, you can know what the chairman of the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) do, what the task of the secretary of the Treasury is… This section can help you know more about the operation of the financial system.

The stock market is always the concern of investors. So on this website, there is a very precisely described curve diagram showing the market trend. Put your indicator on one exact time and you can view the volume of trade at that time. Below the diagram there is a chart showing the most active market movers as well as the gainers and the losers. It is very convenient for you to make analysis of the whole market and guide your investing.

Now that you have all the useful information about the financial market, what will you do next? Open an account and handle it on line, yes? OK, you can open your own account on www.fidelity.com, and it will cost you only 15 minutes. Click “Open an Account” on the top of the homepage, and you come here. Now you can choose which account you want to open. It can be Rollover IRA (Individual Retirement Account), 529 College saving account… It seems that there are dozens of choices. So do you need some help in choosing? On the right, click the “Help me” button, and you will receive the appropriate advice.