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The Internet, a Tool for the Capital Investment
In its origins, the Internet was conceived within the USA defense department as a tool for exchanging information between scientists and researchers that are far from each other.
Approximately in 1993 began the commercial development of the Internet, fact that since then has originated a great proliferation of web pages up to the point of surpassing the eight millions: the best searchers have only catalogued between 15 and 20% of them and its development, far from stopping, continues at an exponential rhythm. For the initiated person the Internet supposes an extraordinary source for a free access of financial information, information that before was only at the reach of professionals at a relatively high cost.
The equal nature of the Internet has eliminated the differences that there are between the individual investors and the professionals. The web sites of a financial character are extended throughout the net. It seems that all the mutual funds societies, all the stock exchange agencies and every communication source has a web site in which the investors can find a great variety of documentation: portfolios, charts, stock exchange reports, profit predictions, recommendations from security analysts, and a selection of securities and investment mutual funds.
Most of this data is free, if well some of them may be obtained through a subscription.
The most serious problem is not the accessibility, but the excess of information. Anybody that surfs the net has to establish some filters to separate the important from the trivial matters.
The open nature of the Internet is without any doubt a great advantage but the negative side is the possibility that it has for inapprehensive people to swindle credulous people behind an anonymity that before was not possible.