Library Guides: Finance: Intro

Subject Guide

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Subjects: Business, Finance, & Economics

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Introduction

Welcome to the Finance Libguide page. Here you find valuable information for finding financial data, investment analysis and stock & bond markets. Below in the Finance Resources section are several tabs that help organize the information.

Finance Resources and Information

Bonds and Mutual Funds

Bureau of Fiscal Service
The Bureau of Fiscal Service is a section of the U.S. Treasury Department. Information is available on the U.S. public debt, State and Local Government Series, T-Bill and Savings Bond information and Consumer Fraud Information.
Bonds Online
Includes data and links to resources covering treasury, municipal, and corporate bonds and bond funds. Through this site it is also possible to obtain valuations of prices of municipal bonds.
Business Week: Mutual Funds
This site carries performance data on some 4,000 equity and bond mutual funds: total returns from 1 month to 10 years, asset size, expense ratios, portfolio turnover, yield, and the Business Week ratings.
Fitch Ratings
Forbes Fund Screener
Forbes Fund Screener will sift through our database of more than 11,000 funds to zero in on five or ten that meet your investing goals.
Investing in Bonds
Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association
Economy and Bonds

Mergent Bondviewer
US taxable and municipal fixed income data. On-demand access to wide-range of bond data including both issuer and bond level terms and condition data, US taxable bonds, municipal bonds, and retail notes.

NOTE: Mergent Bondviewer may be unavailable. The Vendor has been notified and is working to correct the issue. Service will be restored asap.
Morningstar Investment Research Center
Offers up-to-date information on 20,000 stocks and mutual funds, allows screening using a variety of criteria. Provides access to Morningstar Rating for mutual funds and stocks. Includes Morningstar Analyst Reports on 1,000 stocks and 2,000 mutual funds.

This database has a five concurrent user limit. Please log off when you are finished.

Select Government Resources

FDIC Archive
Provides access to historical FDIC publications such as press releases, speeches and testimony, and documents prepared for the U.S. Congress. The FDIC Archive offers a historical perspective that was previously not available, including materials produced originally in print only and never previously digitized for public discovery.

Government Research Guides

Finance Markets

Bloomberg
The Bloomberg Professional® service is the most powerful and flexible platform for financial professionals who need real-time data, news and analytics to make smarter, faster, more informed business decisions.

Company Financials

EDGAR
Company financials from the SEC.
JP Morgan ADR

BizMiner
Bizminer contains detailed industry analysis to small and large businesses and entrepreneurs through its local and national Marketing Plan Research Profiles, Financial Analysis Profiles, Local Business Summaries, State Market Index Profiles. BizMiners proprietary research methodology tracks and analyzes the experience of over 18 million US business facilities, condensing millions of data points into the unique measures found in the profile series. Time Series: 2010-2014
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Factiva
A global information resource, providing full-text access to top national and international newspapers (including full text of the Wall Street Journal), newswires, business journals, market research reports, analysts reports and web sites. Contains over 8000 publications with content from 118 countries in 22 languages. Updated daily.
Morningstar Investment Research Center
Offers up-to-date information on 20,000 stocks and mutual funds, allows screening using a variety of criteria. Provides access to Morningstar Rating for mutual funds and stocks. Includes Morningstar Analyst Reports on 1,000 stocks and 2,000 mutual funds.

This database has a five concurrent user limit. Please log off when you are finished.
PrivCo
A premier source for business and financial data on over 300,000 major, non-publicly traded corporations, including family owned, private equity owned, venture backed, and international unlisted companies.

Note: This resource requires you to create a user account
Thomson ONE Banker
Features market quotes, earnings estimates, financial fundamentals, press releases, transaction data, corporate filings, ownership profiles and company research.
Wharton Research Data Service (WRDS)
Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) was developed by the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania for data management and research. Provides single-point access to over 350 terabytes of data across multiple disciplines, including Finance, Marketing, and Economics.

*Undergrad access may be approved on a case by case basis, but cannot be guaranteed.

Note: An Individual User Account must be created to use this resource.

Yahoo! Finance
Yahoo! Finance contains daily historic stock price data. Enter a company's ticker symbol and then select Historical Prices. Only currently active companies are available.

Investment Analysis

Thomson ONE Banker
Features market quotes, earnings estimates, financial fundamentals, press releases, transaction data, corporate filings, ownership profiles and company research.
Mergent Online
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Financial statements, company news, industry analysis, historical information on M&A activity, country information, product and brand names, historical ratings, US executive biographies and compensation details, historical daily stock pricing back to 1925.
Morningstar Investment Research Center
Offers up-to-date information on 20,000 stocks and mutual funds, allows screening using a variety of criteria. Provides access to Morningstar Rating for mutual funds and stocks. Includes Morningstar Analyst Reports on 1,000 stocks and 2,000 mutual funds.

This database has a five concurrent user limit. Please log off when you are finished.

CNN Money
Investopedia
Investment education
Investors.com
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Investor information

Wharton Research Data Service (WRDS)
Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) was developed by the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania for data management and research. Provides single-point access to over 350 terabytes of data across multiple disciplines, including Finance, Marketing, and Economics.

*Undergrad access may be approved on a case by case basis, but cannot be guaranteed.

Note: An Individual User Account must be created to use this resource.

Finding Investment Analyst Reports in Thomson OneBanker