Asian Business Watch: This site provides investment and financial market information and business development assistance in Asia. Asian stock markets, industry trends, foreign exchange, charts and slide shows in Acrobat pdf files are provided. The content here is excellent. http://www.asianbusinesswatch.com/   

BankAmerica: This site provides a very good economic commentary covering the United States, international, foreign exchange, investment strategies, and special reports. http://www.bankamerica.com/econ_indicator/econ_indicator.html

Bureau of Labor Statistics: This U.S. agency's site provides considerable date and current releases on employment and labor trends. http://www.bls.gov   

Department of Commerce: This U.S. agency's site provides excellent economic data and trade information. http://www.doc.gov/    

Federal Open Market Committee Beige Book: This report is published eight times a year. Each Federal Reserve Bank gathers anecdotal information on current economic conditions in its District through reports from Bank and Branch directors and interviews with key businessmen, economists, market experts, and other sources. http://www.bog.frb.fed.us/FOMC/BB/current/    

Federal Reserve System: The sites of the Federal Reserve Board and banks provide data, forecasts (FOMC forecasts), publications, working papers, and regulatory information. Each site is different, however, so you have to check them all. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System: http://www.bog.frb.fed.us/    

FedStats: This is a site that opened in the late 1990s with links to statistics for over 70 government agencies. This site has a useful list of the more requested tables from the Census Bureau's Statistical Abstract of the U.S. http://www.fedstats.gov    

First Union Bank: This site provides weekly commentaries by the bank's economists covering U.S. and international, data banks, and special analyses. http://www.firstunion.com/econews/    

Wells Fargo Bank: This site provides a weekly U.S. economic update and foreign exchange information. http://wellsfargo.com/econ/    

Merrill Lynch: This site provides daily midday and closing market discussions and downloadable pdf files of research reports covering Global Research Highlights,  Fixed Income Weekly, and Currency & Bond Market Trends. http://www.ml.com/ 

US Info Store.COM :  An extensive listing of current and historical US Economic Data.  Thousands of macroeconomic time series data is available.  The Top150+ Service, provides free and unlimited access to more than 150 of the most popular macroeconomic time series.  A  more extensive and very reasonably priced monthly service is also available.   Search software is provided which allows easy integration into excel.  This is a good sources of online economic data. http://www.usinfostore.com/   

Whitehouse Economic Statistics Briefing Room: A site providing current economic statistics from other government agencies on the topics output, income, employment, production, prices, money and credit, transportation and international. Hotlinks to the agencies are provided. http://www.whitehouse.gov/fsbr/esbr.html    

World Bank: World Bank releases, information and publications. The topics include development issues, regional economic, social, and political information, and special reports. http://www.worldbank.org/