Selected Resources for:
Finance & Investment

ABI/Inform Complete   

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1918- .

Provides current and historic abstracts and many full-text articles from over 2,800 business and management journals, including hundreds of titles from outside the U.S. Covers finance, management, marketing, accounting, business conditions, and other business topics.

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Banking Information Source   

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1971-

Includes information on the international and domestic operations of retail and commercial banks and credit unions. Covers over 400 publications, with 160 current full-text trade magazines, newspapers, and some scholarly publications. The American Banker full-text articles start with 1987, while other full-text articles started in 1990. Formerly Banking Literature Index from the American Bankers Association.

Financial Times   

http://www.ft.com/

Global financial news and analysis. Current issues are available in the Pierce Reading Room, third floor of Lauinger. Older issues on microfilm are kept in Government Documents and Microforms, First Floor. Also searchable in LexisNexis Academic.

Location: Print index: Ref. HG 11 .F5.

Wall Street Journal   

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Full Text, 1986- ; Citations only, 1982-85. Citations Only, 1982-

Eastern edition; New York. The Wall Street Journal is the financial newspaper of record. It offers in-depth coverage of national and international finance as well as first rate coverage of hard news. Updated daily.

Location: Ref HG1 .W2 1957-

Directory of Obsolete Securities  

Brief profiles of banks and companies whose original identities have been lost through merger, acquisition, dissolution, bankruptcy, or name change since 1927. Each company listing indicates how the company became obsolete, the new name of the company (if any), and the date the action occurred. When possible, an indication is made if the stock still has some value. Less comprehensive source is the CCH's Capital Change Reporter.

Location: Ref HG4961 .D56 2006

Westlaw Business  

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LIVEDGAR has EDGAR filings, including full-text documents on mergers and acquisitions, new stock issues, annual reports, insider trading, No-Action Letters and SEC Staff Review Documents and Letters. The database also has SEC filings from foreign companies, international prospectuses and the SEDAR (Canada's EDGAR system).
M&A Center has public and private mergers and acquisitions information. It includes legal agreements, filings and transaction abstracts, along with M&A case law, laws and regulations.
Private Equity Center has laws, regulations, precedent authority, checklists and transaction offerings.
Restructuring Center has filings, agreements, laws, regulations and guides.

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Global Financial Data  

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Current & historical(varies)

Global Financial Data is a source for historical stock market, financial, and economic data, some of which is unavailable from any other online source. The GFD Database includes over 8500 current and historical data series covering over 200 countries that have been collected from original sources. Many of the series extend back two centuries.

Federal Reserve System  

http://federalreserve.gov/

The Federal Reserve System (also the Federal Reserve; informally The Fed) is the central banking system of the United States. It is a quasi-public (government entity with private components) banking system that comprises (1) the presidentially appointed Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, D.C.; (2) the Federal Open Market Committee; and (3) twelve regional privately-owned Federal Reserve Banks located in major cities throughout the nation acting as fiscal agents for the U.S. Treasury, each with its own nine-member board of directors. Duties include banking supervision, operations and payment systems, and monetary policies.

Securities and Exchange Commission  

http://sec.gov/

The mission of the SEC is to protect investors, maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and facilitate capital formation. They do this through the Divisions of Corporation Finance, Enforcement, Investment Management, and Trading and Markets.

U.S. Department of Treasury  

http://treas.gov/

The Treasury Department has the offices of the Comptroller of the Currency, Public Debt, U.S. Mint, and Financial Institutions. So do understand the U.S. bond markets, money flow, and supervising financial institutions and markets, start with this website.

Yahoo Finance  

http://finance.yahoo.com/

This source is great for finding publicly traded company information. It contains chart, competitors, financial statements, historical prices, insiders, news, ownership, profile, and SEC filings. Organized by Yahoo, this meta site also links to information on U.S. markets, world markets, data sources, finance references, investment editorials, financial news, and other helpful Web sites.

Investext  

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1995- .

Provides full text of approximately 40,000 analyst reports, covering more than 11,000 companies and over 50 industries. Investext reports contain in-depth information on companies and industries, including industry trends, market share, and emerging technologies.

Morningstar.com Library Edition  

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Covers stocks, mutual funds (open-end), and exchange traded funds (closed-end). Database can searched by name, security, or use the fund or stock screeners. Additional features of the database include analyst reports for stocks & funds and Portfolio X-Ray, to review the allocations across many different funds.

Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage  

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Various

Company information for publicly-traded and some private corporations. Also includes over 50 U.S. industry surveys. Print equivalents include Standard & Poor's: "Stock Reports" "Company Profiles" "Bond Guide" "Corporation Records" "Mutual Fund Reports" "Security Dealers of North America" "Register of Corporations, Directors & Executives" "Industry Surveys" "The Outlook"

Value Line Research Center  

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Investment information and performance ratings for over 3,000 public companies with 250 data fields. Complete PDF images of The Value Line Investment Survey online Standard Edition, The Value Line Investment Survey online Plus Edition, The Value Line Investment Survey online Small and Mid-Cap Edition, The Value Line Mutual Fund Survey, The Value Line No-Load Advisor, The Value Line Insight, The Value Line Daily Options Survey, The Value Line 600, The Value Line Special Situations Service, The Value Line Convertibles Survey

Location: Older issues since 1980 are available in the Government Documents/Microforms Department (Microfiche 119).

Mergent Online  

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Full text information on over 10,000 U.S. public companies and over 15,000 non-U.S. companies. Includes company history, officers, subsidiaries, financial data, and annual reports. Access to SEC filings (EDGAR) back to 1993. Also includes Company Archives, with information on over 4,000 public companies that were acquired, went bankrupt or merged out of existence from 1995 onward. Includes US and International Industry Reports.

Location: Mergent Manuals

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SharkRepellent.net  

http://www.sharkrepellent.net/

Updated daily.

This database compiles information from a company's articles of incorporation, bylaws, and shareholder rights plan (poison pill). It includes state takeover statutes and all source documents.

Socrates  

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SOCRATES has in-depth profiles of over 650 US and international major corporations. Corporate social responsibilities issues covered relate to community, diversity, employee relations, environment, non-US operations, products, alcohol, tobacco, gambling, nuclear power, and military contracting.

Understanding Financial Statements: What do they say about your business?  

http://asbdc.ualr.edu/business-information/1531-financial-statements.asp

Overview of the business accounting system: source documents, transaction journals, general ledger, and financial statements. Includes a brief Financial Statement Analysis framework.