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. 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]

EIU (Economic Intelligence Unit) provides specialized data & forecasts on over 200 countries and global economic indicators and forecasts. This includes data series on economic structure, foreign payments, external debt stock, external debt service, external trade, trends in foreign trade, and quarterly indicators. The Country Reports are in-depth and include political and economic data and policies. Older EIU reports can be found in the Business Source Premier database. Of special note is the Data Tool which is a report generator for the over 700,000 data elements in the system. [more]

GDF Online has external debt and financial flow data for the 136 countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt to the World Bank's Debtor Reporting System. The time series for 218 indicators run from 1970 to 2000, with contractual obligations data until 2010. The indicators include external debt stocks and flows, major economic aggregates, and key debt ratios as well as average terms of new commitments, currency composition of long-term debt, debt restructurings, and scheduled debt service projections. [more]

IFS Online is published by the International Monetary Fund and is a standard source of international statistics related to finance - both domestic and international. Data is provided to help analyze international payments, rates of inflation and deflation, exchange rates, international liquidity, international banking, monetary policy, interest rates, prices, production and government and national accounts. Please note that pop-up blockers on your computer may prevent this database from working correctly. Please disable them while using this database. [more]

The World Bank e-Library is a full-text information resource for social and economic development. It is made up of World Bank publications (books, reports and other documents) and Policy Research Working Papers. There are selected titles from the 1980s and 1990s, and all published titles are included since 2000. The collection also consists of new titles as they are published, and information not available in print. This site provides access to more than 14,000 World Bank documents, previously known as World Development Sources. "The types of documents you will find include: Country Economic & Sector Work (in-depth background, strategic priorities, and direction for lending activities); Project Documents (loan documents released to the public according to the (project cycle); and Research & Working Papers (working papers & informal series from departments around the Bank)." [more]