Moody's Manual is a series of manuals published by the Moody's Corporation. It was first published in 1900 by John Moody, nine years before he founded Moody's. Initially called Moody's Manual of Industrial and Miscellaneous Securities, it was later superseded by Moody's Manual of Railroads and Corporation Securities, then by Moody's Analyses of Investments.[1][2] Until 1990's, they published a series of manuals on publicly traded stocks both in the United States and internationally. Market Inference[3] publishes Manual of Investments which provides annual summaries of companies listed in NYSE, Nasdaq, and others.