Locating Finance and Investment Information
The best indexes for articles and financial data about
finance and investment are:
ABI/Inform
ABI/INFORM provides worldwide coverage of business
conditions, trends, corporate strategies and tactics, management
techniques, competitive and product information, and a wide variety
of other topics. Also, provides information on 60,000+ companies.
Over 1,300 sources (including 350 titles from outside the U.S.)
are indexed and abstracted. Of these, 600 are available in full
text.
Preferred browser: Explorer
Datastream
Provides daily pricing and volume information on over 37,000
equities from 57 countries, 12,000 market, stock and bond indices,
and 87,000 macroeconomic series from central statistical offices
such as Statistics Canada, and sources such as International Financial
Statistics and selected OECD series. Also included are over 2,000
daily foreign exchange rates, 1,000 daily and weekly interest
rate series, 68,000 fixed income instruments from 23 countries
and more than 260 financial and commodity futures and options
contracts. Available in the Library on the main floor
on PC numbered 41 and 42.
Factiva
Factiva, a Dow Jones & Reuters Company, provides
global content with multiple language interfaces and multilingual
content covering nearly 8,000 sources.
Factiva provides access to over 1,000 global and local newspapers
including the full text of the Globe & Mail from November
14, 1977, more than 6,500 magazines, including industry-specific
journals and newsletters, 270+ newswires, including Dow Jones,
Reuters and The Associated Press, 160+ Media Programs, with transcripts
from BBC, ABC, CBS, NBC and more, 9,000 Web sites in more than
20 languages and more than 20,000 Company Reports. On average,
3,000+ pictures are added each week from Reuters and Knight Ridder.
Company Research Tools Perform company screening on a collection
of nearly 24,000 global companies using 26 criteria. Current quotes
and market data are available from Reuters Investor. Instrument
types supported include global stocks, market indices, mutual
funds and corporate bonds
Preferred browser – Explorer
FP
Advisor
FP
Advisor New Issues; FP
Advisor Corporate Profiler; FP
Advisor Corporate Analyzer; FP
Advisor Corporate Reports; FP
Advisor Dividends.
Mergent
Online
Mergent Online is a subscription-based service offering
over 10,000 U.S. public companies and 17,000 non-U.S. public companies.
What began in 1997 as Company Data Direct -- a subscription service
of 10,000 companies on the NYSE, AMEX and Nasdaq exchanges, has
expanded into a "suite" of global business and financial
information products carefully designed to offer the respected
investment research tools that you have come to rely on from Mergent
.
Equity Portraits contains fundamental company information with
stock price volume and data for over 10,000 firms. Each portrait
features a complete analysis of firm's financial information,
industry analysis and text commentary to provide perspective on
the firm both in absolute terms as well as relative to industry
peers.
LEXIS/NEXIS
Lexis/Nexis Academic is a full-text database which focuses primarily
on business, legal and news resources. Included in the database
are law reports, company filings, journal and newspaper articles,
broadcast transcripts, etc.
Lexis/Nexis Academic is available exclusively for the use of
currently enrolled students and faculty of Ryerson. Commercial
use is strictly prohibited.
TSX-CMFRC
The Canadian Financial Markets Research Centre (CFMRC) Summary Information Database includes: daily and monthly Toronto Stock Exchange trading information about specific securities; information on "price adjustments" such as dividends, stock splits, recapitalizations, etc.; information on daily and monthly index levels; as well as selected other financial markets information. Also includes selected time series data for t-bill rates, bond rates and foreign exchange rates. The database is divided into two parts: common equities and preferred equities.
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