Bloomberg: The BLOOMBERG includes delayed exchange feeds from the world's exchanges, currency feeds from top inter-bank trading floors, dozens of different news wires, and descriptive information, research and financial statistics on over 52,000 ?companies worldwide. Covers global securities markets, including equities, money markets, currencies, municipals, corporate/Euro/Sovereign bonds, commodities, mortgage-backed securities, derivative products and governments. BLOOMBERG Business News covers companies, industries and markets with over 3,000 stories/day. Available at the Social Science Library and in room A39 at SOM.

Compustat: Compustat Research Insight (RI) consists of two databases: 1. Compustat North America and 2.Compustat Global (formerly Global Vantage).North America ?ontains 20 years of annual, 12 years of quarterly, 7 years of business and geographic segment, and 240 months of stock prices and dividend data. Financial and market data of over 10,300 U.S. and Canadian companies are available, along with the data from over 7,600 inactive companies that no longer file with the SEC due to a merger,liquidation, bankruptcy, etc. Global ?ontains detailed information about companies, indices, and currencies from across the globe. In addition, it contains more than 9,000 industrial and financial services companies representing over 65 countries, market data including over 80 local market indexes, and over 70 currencies. With Research Insight as the interface program and Compustat or Global Vantage, as the database, users can generate reports/charts that are useful in analyzing a company's profitability, risk, and growth possibilities. Available at all StatLab locations and remotely via the WRDS.

CRSP: CRSP creates and maintains premier historical US databases for stock (Nasdaq, AMEX, NYSE), indices, bond, and mutual fund securities. Standard Subscription Product include CRSP US Stock Databases; CRSP US Indices Database ; CRSP/COMPUSTAT Merged Database (CCM) ; CRSP Survivor Bias-Free US Mutual Fund Database; CRSP US Treasury Databases. Available at all StatLab locations and remotely via SOM network and the WRDS.

Datastream: Datastream is a worldwide financial information service that covers all aspects of the securities industry. Data are included on stocks, bonds, indices and other financial vehicles such as options, convertibles, warrants and swaps. DATASTREAM Equity Research and DATASTREAM Bond Research provide next day and historical coverage of over 30,000 equities and 70,000+ bonds. Extensive worldwide economic data from governments and international organizations such as the IMF and OECD also are included. Information can be displayed and analyzed statistically against user-defined criteria and downloaded to a spreadsheet. Available at the Social Science Library on machine #9.

EIU Country Data: EIU Country Data contains a concise snapshot of the political and economic prospects of 181 countries, along with monthly, quarterly and annual series from 117 countries. Data range from exchange rates to inflation and interest rates to trade flows. Access restricted by IP address to Yale domain.

Global Financial Database: The Global Financial Database is a compilation of all 6,500 of the historical and current data series as specialized databases. You can subscribe to the entire database or to specialized databases. Some of the specialized databases are:
The Long-term Financial Database
The Interest Rate Database
The United States Daily Stock Market Database
The Global Stock Market Database

Ibbotson Associates Analyser: A comprehensive source of current and historical data for all the worlds debt and equity markets -- aggregated indices. Available via the SOM network.

WRDS: Wharton Research Data Services, or WRDS, is a comprehensive web-based data management system that allows faculty and students to easily retrieve information from a wide variety of financial, economic, and marketing data sources. WRDS is best known for its holdings of historical financial data from CRSP and COMPUSTAT. This data covers over 30,000 companies and includes security prices and trading volume, income and balance sheet items, and analyst projections for earnings and sales. WRDS also contains stock market indices, bond prices and interest rates, mutual fund and stock ownership information, options data, and a wide array of macroeconomic time series. International data, marketing and industry reports, and web usage data are also available on WRDS. Account available to ICF fellows on request. For more information, please contact Derek Hunt. .

United Nations Statistics Division Common Database: The United Nations Statistics Division Common Database is a database which covers all countries and areas and selected economic and social indicators from more specialized international data sources. From the main menu, you may browse, access and retrieve statistics and look up information on data sources, definitions and classifications. Access restricted by IP address to Yale domain.