This research guide is intended for anyone doing research in financial investing. It includes general investing sources such as handbooks and directories, periodicals, and financial news websites, as well as economic forecasting, international investing, and socially responsible investing resources. Additionally, the guide includes a wide array of information on various investing instruments, such as stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and commodities. In the “Stock” section, you will find stock links, investment services for company and industry information, stock exchanges, and historic stock prices. The resources include websites, electronic databases, print periodicals, and books from the libraries’ collection.
Bloomberg Business News Service provides up-to-the-minute news and prices from financial markets around the world. Offerings include 24-hour historical and 15-minute delayed securities pricing, news, data, and analysis on companies, markets and economies. Records includes equities, money markets, currencies, bonds, commodities, mortgage-backed securities, and derivatives. Much of the information can be presented graphically.
Only available through the Bloomberg Terminal at Pardee Library (no remote access).
Provides worldwide full text access to local and regional newspapers, trade publications, business newswires, press release wires, media transcripts, news photos, business-rich websites, investment analyst reports, market research reports, country and regional profiles, company profiles, historical market data.
Market Atlas provides tools for both interactive online research and easy predefined report access. These tools and reports are reflected across multiple product modules including Company, Sustainability, Industry, Country and Economic analysis. The Market Atlas database of corporate information covering over 50,000 US and foreign public companies, current and historical (past 15 years) firm descriptions, statistics, financial information and ratios, annual reports, mergers, acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, long-term debt, capital stock, and insider trading.
NetAdvantage (S&P Global) provides web based access to S&P Industry Surveys, S&P Company Profiles, Stock Reports and Sub-Industry Reviews. Each S&P Industry Survey includes current trends, how the industry operates, downloadable company data and links to industry trade associations.