Library Databases - Finance & Banking - Banking and Finance

Databases

The following represent good places to start your research when looking for information in the areas of banking, finance and investment.

Amadeus This link opens in a new window
Contains company profiles for approximately 23 million companies across Europe.
Note: Before using Amadeus, you need to set up an account. Please see the login instructions for this database.
Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Indexes scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and much more. About 80% of the journals are available with full text.
Financial Times This link opens in a new window
Provides online access to the Financial Times newspaper.

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Mergent online
Mergent Online opens into the basic search page. Here you can enter your company name or ticker symbol and the database will offer possible matches as you type. Links for an advanced search and executive search are located at the top of the screen.
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"An Internet-accessible subscription service covering 10,000 public companies and their SEC filings. U.S. Annual Reports: Easy-to-access current and historical annual reports on 10,000 U.S. public companies; International Annual Reports: Hard-to-get, timely annual reports on all companies in our International Company Data database, available in PDF image formats; industry reports covering industries worldwide."

Morningstar investment research center This link opens in a new window
Contains reports on more than 8,000 stocks and 12,000 mutual funds, Analyst Reports on 1,000 stocks and 2,000 mutual funds and Morningstar ratings for stocks and funds; stock and fund screeners and a portfolio X-ray tool to help look for strengths and weaknesses in a portfolio; quarterly reports on industry sectors; and investment articles and help guides.
ProQuest One Business This link opens in a new window
Provides business information from scholarly and popular periodicals, newspapers, market research reports, dissertations, books, videos and more.
Social Science Research Network : SSRN This link opens in a new window
Provides the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences.

Wall Street Journal online
Full text access to the Wall Street Journal from 1986 - date. It also includes indexing to articles from 1889 to 1986 (Deep Back File), but the full text of most of those articles will not be available.