Academic Articles

• ProQuest Business Databases
  Covers all aspects of management, accounting, finance, marketing, decision sciences and many areas of economics. Includes access to scholarly journals via ABI/Inform Global as well as trade journals. Full text coverage varies from journal to journal. Retrospective index and abstract coverage back to 1971 (selective) with more complete coverage from 1987 onwards.
  
  
• Business Source Complete
  Provides access to full text scholarly journals, business magazines, country reports, company and industry profiles. Includes online access to important journals such as McKinsey Quarterly and Harvard Business Review.
  
  
• EconLit
  Citations with selected abstracts to literature in the field of economics. Includes journal articles, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, book chapters and essays. International in scope. Updated monthly.
  
  
• Business Periodicals Index HF 5001 B843 WEB
  Historical business resource. Indexes both the major scholarly and general periodicals in business back to 1953.
  
  

Company Financials

• Factiva.com
  Select the Companies/Markets tab and then Company to select/search a company.  Financial data is available in the Reports section
  
  
• FP Advisor
  Includes Company Snapshots  that profiles all Canadian public companies. Each snapshot provides links to other sources of FP financials, ratios and investor data for individual companies, industry data for 33 industries, a directory of predecessor and defunct companies and the Directory of Directors.   The Corporate Analyzer section provides detailed information on company financials and market data (beta...) while the Corporate Survey section focuses on stock information .  FP Advisor also includes sections on dividends and new issues of Canadian companies as well as a section on Mergers and Acquisitions. 
  
  
• Mergent Online
  Mergent Online provides business and financial information for 23,000 U.S. and international companies. SEC filings (real-time and archived to 1993) are included for the 10,000+ NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ exchange companies. Financials for 15 years can be downloaded to Excel. Annual reports, where available, begin with 1996 and will be archived. Tearsheets (updated quarterly and providing a company overview, ratios, and prospects) are available for 2,000 U.S. companies. Recent news stories about a company are listed for 6 weeks. Updated weekly.
  
  In basic search mode, you may search by company name or ticker symbol. In advanced search mode, you may search for companies meeting specified criteria such as SIC or NAICS code, geographical area(s), revenues, profits, specified words in descriptive text, etc.
  
  
• Standard and Poor's NetAdvantage
  
  
  NetAdvantage provides access to the following:
  
  

  • Bond Reports: corporate bond reports that includes pricing and yield data, the current and historical S&P credit rating and more.
  • Corporation Records: profiles of public companies stating company background, stock and bond information, balance sheet and earnings details.
  • Company Profiles: comprehensive profiles of publicly traded companies that includes business descriptions, an interactive charting tool, statistics, analyst ratings, valuation and financial information, as well as the latest stock price quote, company news, and information on competitors.
  • Industry Surveys: in-depth financial and business analysis of 52 U.S. industries. Includes data, forecasts and trends across 115 industry sectors. Useful for identifying industry trends and competitors, including major Canadian companies.
  • Fund Reports: mutual fund profiles that includes an overview of each fund, comparison of the fund's performance with the market and its competitors, risk and return information, a current quote, charts, and statistics.
  • The Outlook: S&P's weekly investment advisory newsletter. Current and historical issues from 1996 onwards are available full text.
  • Register (Private Companies): profiles of approximately 85,000 private companies, including: address, telephone number, officers and directors, total annual sales, number of employees, line of business and NAICS number.
  • Register (Public Companies): brief descriptions of publicly traded companies, including stock symbol, total annual sales, number of employees, officer names, and NAICS number.
  • Stock Reports: detailed equity evaluations of public companies listed on the New York, American, NASDAQ and regional stock exchanges. Includes analyst recommendations and fundamental, quantitative and technical analysis for the stocks listed.
  
  
• Value Line Investment Survey
  The Value Line Investment Survey is a comprehensive source of information and advice on approximately 1,700 stocks, more than 90 industries, the stock market, and the economy.  Value Line also provides economic and stock market commentary in the Selection and Opinion section. Updated weekly. 
  
  

Business Newspapers

• Factiva
  Offers over 10,000 news sources, including major business publications, newspapers and newswires from around the world. Includes full text access to current issues of the Wall Street Journal, Globe and Mail, Barron's, Forbes, Fortune, The Economist and more. Updated continuously.
  
  
• Eureka
  Fulltext of French Canadian newspapers: La Presse 1985 onward, Le Devoir 1992 onward, Le Soleil 1992 onward, Le Droit 1993 onward, the weekly newspaper Voir 1992 onward; and the monthly magazine l'Actualité 1992 onward. Full text access to Les Affaires is also available.
  
  
• CBCA Complete
  Provides full text articles from over 260 active Canadian periodicals and other sources of current affairs information. In addition, CBCA Complete also includes indexing of about 800 additional active periodicals and a variety of daily news sources. For the full text of Canadian newspapers, including the Montreal Gazette, see Canadian Newsstand.
  
  
• Globe & Mail
  Globe & Mail, Canada's Heritage From 1844, is the electronic full-page newspaper archive of The Globe from June 1844 until December 2003. Coverage includes all the stories, plus thousands of images, advertisements, classifieds, political cartoons, births and deaths from more than 1.4 million pages of Canada's National Newspaper, dating from 1844 to 2003.  For more recent news, use Factiva.com.
  
  
• Wall Street Journal
  America's business newspaper of record can be searched on ABI/INFORM Global (Use the Publication tab to select only this newspaper) or Factiva. Both databases have access to the current full-text version of The Wall Street Journal, covering the years 1984 to present (with daily updates). For dates before 1984, see ProQuest Historical Newspapers, which provides digital access to WSJ from 1889 to 1993.
  
  

Brokerage Reports

• Investext via Thomson ONE
  Investext provides investment, company and industry reports from brokerage firms in North America, Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East.  To access Investext within Thomson ONE, make sure that you are in the Company Analysis menu (navigation menus are located on the left-hand side of the page), then select the link/folder called Research.  From there the folder opens.  Click on the Conduct Research Report Search link and this will give you access to all Investext reports.  Please note that Thomson ONE only works with Internet Explorer.
  
  
• Lexis-Nexis
  Please note that Lexis-Nexis is only available in the Library. Please ask at the reference desk to get access. Once you log in, Select the tab Company & Financial then go to Analysts & Brokerage Research.
  
  
• Standard and Poor's NetAdvantage
  Type in the name of the company or ticker that you are looking for in the Company Profiles section.  From there, click on the link Stock Reports (located on the left-hand side of the page) to get a detailed report authored by an S&P analyst. 
  
  
• Value Line Investment Survey
  The Value Line Investment Survey is a comprehensive source of information and advice on approximately 1,700 stocks, more than 90 industries, the stock market, and the economy.  Each company featured in Value Line has an analyst commentary that is updated regularly.
  
  

Finance Directories

• Financial Services Canada
  Published annually, the Financial Services Canada directory is a master file of current contacts and information that serves the needs of the entire financial services industry in Canada. Use this source for get names and contact information of industry professionals, senior executives, portfolio managers, financial advisors, agency bureaucrats and elected representatives in all Canadian provinces.
  
  
• Directory of Venture Capital & Private Equity Firms
  This annual directory offers direct access to over 2,300 US, Canadian and International Venture Capital and Private Equity Firms, with detailed contact information and data on investment and funds.
  
  
• Canadian Business Resource
  Online database that provides a detailed profile of the major companies in Canada, it's history, profiles of the board of directors and contact information of key executives.
  
  
• FP Advisor: Directory of Directors
  Use this section of the database to get contact and background information on over 17,000 directors and executives of Canadian companies who reside in Canada.
  
  
• S&P's NetAdvantage: Security Dealers
  Security Dealers of North America (SDNA) is a listing of North American securities dealers, providing a brief description of the business, location and contact information.
  
  

Commodity Data

• International Financial Statistics
  Compiled by the IMF, commodity prices are updated on a monthly basis. There are two options associated with Commodity Prices. The first option, entitled Market Prices and Unit Values,  represents data that are the market prices reported for commodities traded internationally, in units of quantity frequently used in the respective commodity markets, and expressed in U.S. dollars. The second option, entitled Indices of Market Prices as Unit Values, represents the same data expressed as indices.
  
  
• UN Comtrade
  Commodity Trade Statistics database which includes information on import and export by commodity on a country by country basis. For assistance a brief help guide is available.
  
  
• Datastream
  Select Commodities as your category of data.  From there, you can choose to either search for a commodity, or browse for commodities in the tab labeled Commodities Explorer.  To use Datastream, please visit the JMSB labs (MB 12.254, MB 11.314, MB 12.314 ) or contact the Finance Librarian to make an appointment.
  
  
• CRB Commodity Yearbook
  The 2009 Yearbook contains worldwide supply/demand and production/consumption data for all the basic commodities and futures markets, including all the major markets in interest rates, currencies, energy, and stock index futures. This resource is only available as a print reference book at the Webster Library and as a CD ROM on Webster terminal W-228.
  
  

Historical Stock Data

• Canadian Financial Markets Research Centre (CFMRC)
  Historical price data for common and preferred equities listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Daily data starts as of 1975 and monthly data is available as far back as 1950. Data can be retrieved in different formats that are suited for viewing, printing, and exporting to various statistical packages (SPSS, SAS), or spreadsheets (Excel).
  
  
• Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP)
  CRSP provides acces to NYSE/AMEX/Nasdaq Daily and Monthly Security Prices and other historical data related to over 25,000 companies. Data goes as far back as 1924 in some cases and can be retrieved in different formats that are suited for viewing, printing, and exporting to various statistical packages (SPSS, SAS), or spreadsheets (Excel).
  
  
• Datastream
  Updated daily, use Datastream to access historical, global coverage of equities, indices, commodities, options and futures, foreign exchanges, bond markets and economic data. The database provides historical equity information that extends back to the 1970s, but coverage will vary.  To use Datastream, please visit the JMSB labs (MB 12.254, MB 11.314, MB 12.314 ) or contact the Finance Librarian to make an appointment.
  
  
• Stock Guide
  For 1000 Canadian publicly traded companies, Stock Guide provides full reports with complete fundamentals and financial ratios, and stocks grouped by industry. Financial information on 1000 de-listed companies is also available. Updated monthly.  Please note that this resource is only available in the Webster Library on terminal W-228.
  
  

Economic Data

• IMF: International Financial Statistics (IFS)
  Maintained by the International Monetary Fund, the IFS database is a standard source of international statistics on all aspects of international and domestic finance. It reports, for over 200 countries of the world, current data needed in the analysis of problems of international payments and of inflation and deflation, i.e., data on exchange rates, international liquidity, international banking, money and banking, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions, national accounts and commodities.  Please note that the Library also subscribes to other IMF online products: Direction of Trade (DOT), Government Finance Statistics (GFS) and Balance of Payments statistics (BOP). 
  
  
• Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)
  Country reports of approximately 200 countries detailing political and economic trends. Each report is updated on a monthly basis.  EIU also contains socio-economic data that can be directly exported to a spreadsheet.  Click on the launch button located just below the data tool label on the top left of the page to access both historical and forecast data.
  
  
• SourceOECD
  This resource includes the full text of all of OECD publications, that is periodicals (19 titles), monographic studies and statistical databases. Periodical titles include OECD Economic Surveys, OECD Economic Outlook, OECD Observer, to name a few. These publications are of primary concern for Economics and Finance students and faculty. The focus of the publications is on international economics and finance, but the range of issues covered goes from agriculture to transport, energy, science, etc. Statistical data are downloadable in Excel and Beyond 20/20 format.
  
  
• World Development Indicators
  The World Development Indicators (WDI) publication is the World Bank's premier annual compilation of data about development. The WDI includes more than 900 indicators in over 80 tables organized in 6 sections: World View, People, Environment, Economy, States and Markets, and Global Links.
  
  

For further resources, see Government Publications on the Web

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