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]

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]

Reuter's Research on Demand, formerly MultexNet, provides access to research reports created by analysts from top brokerage houses, investment banks, and financial research firms. These reports cover a wide array of information including detailed analysis of market share, projected sales and earnings, current and projected financial performance, and companies' research and development expenditures. These are also a good source for current industry information and projections. It does not include reports from Merrill Lynch. [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]

SOCRATES is a comprehensive research database, measuring the social and environmental performance of corporations. The database contains social, environmental, and governance research on more than 4,000 companies in 50+ global markets. KLD evaluates over 3,000 U.S. corporations for social and environmental performance on more than 280 data points covering community relations, corporate governance, diversity, employee relations, human rights, products, and the environment. SOCRATES contains information about current and historical shareholder actions, including the exact text of proxy resolutions, compiled by the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR). It is useful to monitor up-coming shareholder resolutions for companies in your portfolio; follow the responsiveness of companies over time to shareholder resolutions; and know the issues that active shareholders are pursuing You can generate lists of shareholder resolutions filed on a particular issue or with a company since 1998. [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]

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Available full text through the Factiva Database.

Available full text through the Factiva Database.