Joomla is a pretty good framework to start with. There is a forms component for it that is quite cheap and can handle the kind of data you are referring to and there are plenty of other modules that could do the stock and quotes.

that sounds like a custom solution to me. But maybe he can look into erp software with a web front-end. here is a list from wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ERP_software_packages[^] All the Best, Chris J