Locate real-time and historical information on economic conditions, market data and public companies worldwide. Information is available on governments, mortgages, money markets, bonds, commodities, stocks, and currencies. This resource is used in most companies and institutions that manage equities, commodities, and currencies. Two dedicated Bloomberg terminals with full API capabilities which allow for custom downloading and creation of reports are available in the Walker Management Library and Owen Computer Lab. Online tutorials are available on the terminals and Bloomberg now offers certification in different financial management areas with tests that can be taken on the Bloomberg terminals. [more]

The Financial Markets Research Center at Vanderbilt (FMRC) provides access to this database. It is a database containing about 340 annual and 120 quarterly income statement, balance sheet, flow of funds and supplemental data items on a large number of companies. [more]

This database is made available by the Financial Markets Research Center at Vanderbilt (FMRC). Produced by the University of Chicago's Center for Research in Securities Prices, the CRSP database contains daily and monthly price, volume, and return data for NYSE, ASE, and NASDAQ stocks. [more]

Datastream provides historical data for financial markets worldwide. It also contains an extensive collection of historical country economic and time series data. [more]

Factiva is a multi-functional database. It is primarily used to find the full-text of business publications, including magazines, trade publications, and newspapers. It has full-text coverage of the Wall Street Journal. It is a good source for international and local business news, which typically isn't covered in other databases. Also included in this database are company profiles and financial quotes. [more]

Hoover's has basic information on 12 million worldwide companies and in-depth profiles of more than 40,000 public and private companies. Basic company information comes from Dun & Bradstreet. Before purchasing D&B information from this database, please check to see if it is available for free in our D&B Million Dollar Database. Each Hoover's in-depth profile may include company description, historical profile, competitors, financials, products/operations, industry information, and biographies of executives. IPO Central provides information on initial public offerings. Our license provides access to the Hoover's Pro version only, not Pro Plus or Premium. [more]

The Financial Markets Research Center at Vanderbilt (FMRC) provides access to this database. It provides Wall Street earnings per share forecasts by analysts and the consensus data derived from these forecasts for more than 3,500 publicly traded companies in the U.S. Coverage period includes 1990-2000. Contact the FMRC for more recent information. [more]

Data on more than 35 million private and public companies in U.S. and worldwide. The Company Dossier aggregates company information and data from many sources to provide company profiles, contacts, executives, products, competitors, financials, legal Information, including intellectual property and recent company news. Create lists, compare and search by a number of options including legal counsel, auditor, geography and financials, SIC or NAICS. [more]

Another of the Financial Markets Research Center at Vanderbilt (FMRC) databases, this dataset contains daily observations of variables measuring trade and quote properties for securities. Filters are applied to the Trade and Quote data (TAQ) before the MMS variables are calculated. [more]

Mergent Online (formerly FIS Online) provides access to detailed corporate financial histories (including capital changes) and operational histories for international public companies. Mergent has company financial reports (income statement, balance sheet, cash flow, and retained earnings reports) dating back 15 years/quarters and includes financial ratios. Mergent also provides company overviews, joint venture information, property descriptions, subsidiaries, officers/directors, long-term debt, and capital stock. Customized reports on a company or multiple companies can be created and data can be downloaded into Excel. The database also includes newswire headlines and annual reports (most recent 15 years). The industry reports are updated regularly. A new addition to this database are country reports containing statistical data. [more]

Standard and Poor's Net Advantage provides fulltext access to a variety of S&P publications including the electronic full text versions of the Standard & Poor’s Industry Surveys. Covers 52 different industries (usually the larger industries like Retail, Apparel and Footwear, Airlines, Computers, Biotech, Pharmaceuticals, etc) and the reports are updated every 6 months. The surveys contain information about current trends, how the industry operates, key ratios and statistics for each industry, and then how to analyze a company in a particular industry. The last section provides comparative financial data in tabular format for the top companies in the industry. S&P NetAdvantage also includes Stock Reports, Corporation Records as well as detailed information on mutual funds, bonds, dividends, earnings, and a directory of corporations and executives. [more]

SDC Platinum offers the most comprehensive data available on mergers & acquisitions, global new issues (IPO and private placement), and venture capital. The search interface requires precise queries but provides a large range of data points. Information can be downloaded to a spreadsheet format. [more]

The Financial Markets Research Center at Vanderbilt (FMRC) provides access to this database. This New York Stock Exchange database contains intraday transactions data (trades and quotes) for all securities listed on the NYSE, AMEX, and NASDAQ National Market System and SmallCap Issues from 1993 to present. Due to the large size of this dataset, it is only available on DVDs. Please contact the FMRC, http://fmrc1.owen.edu/, to gain access to this dataset or see the Market Microstructure database, which is a summary of the TAQ data. [more]

Researching investment information or identifying and analyzing investment opportunities can easily be accomplished with this resource. You can monitor markets, portfolios and securities. Summaries of analysts' forecasts, as well as broker research, are available. [more]

This database pulls some data from multiple databases (I/B/E/S, Worldscope, SDC, Datastream and other Thomson databases) to provide company financials, company profiles, and financial market data. The Deals portion of the database provides current information (including League Tables) on Mergers & Acquisitions, Equity, Bonds and Loans. You get historical research and statistics as well as forecasts. You can analyze the performance of a company individually or compare it to industry averages. [more]