Financial Markets Research Guide
Dictionaries and Handbooks
Barron’s Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms 
Provides detailed definitions for a wide array of financial and investment products, including costs, risks, liquidity, and tax implications.
A Dictionary of Finance and Banking
Covers insurance, stocks, commodities takeovers, mergers and government finance. Offers expanded international coverage.
The Handbook of Financial Instruments
Comprehensive guide for a wide-range of financial instruments, such as equities, bonds, alternative investments, and insurance investment products.
Magazines and Newspapers
Barron’s
Available via Factiva , ABI/Inform
Weekly newspaper containing investment statistics and company profiles.
Financial Times
Available via ABI/ INFORM , Academic OneFile , LexisNexis Academic , Factiva
A daily newspaper reporting on UK and international business, finance, economic and political news.
Institutional investor
Available via ABI/INFORM , Business Source Premier , Factiva
Contains financial news, features, and research. Coverage focuses on money management, corporate finance, capital markets, alternative investments, and more.
Investor’s Business Daily
Available via Factiva , LexisNexis Academic
A national business and financial newspaper that covers major news of the day.
Wall Street Journal
Available via ABI/INFORM and Factiva
Daily newspaper with focus on business and finance.
Research
Business Source Premier
Industry and company profiles for banks, diversified financial institutions and capital markets from Datamonitor, market research reports from MarketWatch
CreditWeek
332.605 S7854 Ref Mgmt
Standard & Poor’s weekly report provides industry and company analysis, economic viewpoints, and ratings thrends charts and table.
Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) - Country Finance
In-depth financial information for over 200 countries. Monetary systems, foreign exchange regulations, securities markets, currency and derivatives markets are covered.
Euromonitor’s Global Market Information Database (GMID)
Government finance information from regions around the world, including reserves, money supply and market capitalizations.
Europa Online
Names and addresses of banks, stock exchanges, insurance firms for over 250 countries.
Factiva
Newsletters and reports on financial markets around the world. Choose ‘banking and credit’ from the list of sources.
ISI Emerging Markets
Company and industry data and news all from local sources.
Investext Plus
Analyst reports on companies and industries from over 500 brokers worldwide. Also includes Mergent history & debt reports and trade association reports from over 50 major industries.
The Outlook
332.05 S885ou Ref Mgmt
A Standard & Poor’s publication focused on equity research. Contains information on investment strategies and portfolios, stock, fund, and bond reports, financial tool information and much more.
Standard & Poor’s Credit Overview : Corporate and International Ratings
332.7 S785s Ref Mgmt
Contains bond issue credit ratings
Value Line Investment Survey
Independent research data and analysis for 1,700 international stocks, in various industries, stock markets, and economies. This resource is broken into three parts: Ratings & Reports, which covers reports for companies and industries, Summary & Index, which provides an index, and Selection & Opinion, which contains economic forecasts.
Statistics
International Financial Statistics
Contains approximately 32,000 time series covering more than 200 countries and areas; exchange rate series for all IMF member countries, plus Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles.
S & P Daily Stock Price Record
332.605 S784o Ref Mgmt
Contains daily price price information for the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, and the NASDAQ.
Securities Industry Fact Book
L 332.6405 F147 Ref Mgmt
This annual statistical guide contains data on the securities industry, capital markets, market activity, investor participation, global markets, savings and investment, and more.
Stocks, Bonds, Bills and Inflation: Quarterly Reports
L 332.60973 S865a Ref Mgmt
This Ibbotson publication is contains statistics for stocks, bond, bills, and inflation.
Federal Reserve Board
Statistics: Releases and Historical Data
Available at: http://www.federalreserve.gov/Releases/
Links to a variety of statistical tools and data provided by the Federal Research Bank on topics such as principal economic indicators, bank asset quality, exchange rates and much more.
Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research (FRASER)
Available at: http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/
Scanned images of historical economic statistical publications, releases, and documents.
Last updated: 04/14/08
