Providers#
Summary#
Information sources – newspapers; magazines; reference books; radio and television; institutional advice; annual reports, newsletters, tip sheets and City publications
Newspapers#
They deliver news services, markets reports and price quotations to customer screens in most financial institutions. They provide constant real-time datafeeds on currencies, stocks, bonds, futures, options and other instruments across a range of countries and markets.
- Reuters, Bloomberg and Capital IQ (Global information product suppliers)
- Wall Street Journal (US): available in European and Asian editions, though their international coverage
- The New York Times
- Investor’s Business Daily
- Financial Times (UK)
Online Sources#
Information Sources on Individual Companies
Websites#
www.capitaliq.com www.factset.com www.sec.gov www.edgar-online.com www.freeedgar.com www.quicken.com www.hooversonline.com www.aol.com finance.yahoo.com www.bizbuysell.com www.dialog.com www.lexisnexis.com www.mergernetwork.com www.mergers.net www.washingtonresearchers.com www.twst.com www.worldm-anetwork.com www.onesource.com google.com/financ
- Lexis/Nexis: Database of general business and legal information = Thomas Register: Organizes firms by products and services
- Frost & Sullivan: Industry research
- Findex.com: Financial information
- Competitive Intelligence Professionals: Information about industries
- Dialog Corporation: Industry databases
- Ward’s Business Directory of U.S. Private and Public Companies
- Predicasts: Provides databases through libraries
- Business Periodicals Index: Business and technical article index
- Dun & Bradstreet Directories: Information about private and public companies
- Dun & Bradstreet Million Dollar Directory: Specific data on large U.S. corporations
- Experian: Information about private and public companies
- Nelson’s Directory of Investment Research: Wall Street research reports
- Standard & Poor’s Publications: Industry surveys and corporate records
- Harris Infosource: Information about manufacturing companie
- Hoover’s Handbook of Private Companies: Information on large private firms
- Washington Researchers: Information on public and private firms, markets, and industries
- The Wall Street Journal Transcripts: Wall Street research reports
Megazine#
- Investors Chronicle,
- Barron’s.
- The Economist
- Shares
- Moneywise, Inside Money and Money Observer, the UK’s personal finance publications
- Forbes, Fortune and Business Week. US business magazines
- Money Management, Magazines for financial intermediaries
- The Banker, The international banking magazine, ;
- Financing Review for corporate financiers;
- Euromoney for those involved in the Euromarkets.
Reference publications on the markets#
They can supplement the real-time information available electronically
- Stock Exchange Yearbook -Good UK examples ir provides detailed history and financial information on all securities listed on the London exchange;
- the Hambro Company Guide, which also provides data on all fully listed companies;
- the Estimate Directory, which contains individual UK brokers’ forecasts and composite forecasts for hundreds of companies;
- the Handbook of Market Leaders, which includes data on contract details, share prices, up to five years of financial information, activity analysis and graphic share-price analysis.
TV / Radios (mostly in the UK)#
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- Radio 4 programme Money Box with its wide-ranging discussions of personal finance (weekly)
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- the BBC2’s business forum, The Money Programme.
- the television data services, CEEFAX and Teletext, provide share and option prices updated four times daily plus financial market headlines;
- the FT Cityline and Teleshare offer telephone services with real-time share prices, updated constantly. T
- the CNBC, is devoted to business and finance in the US.
SEC Filings (Public Companies Only)#
- 0-K: Provides detailed information on a company’s annual operations, business conditions, competitors, market conditions, legal proceedings, risk factors in holding the stock, and other related information.
- 0-Q: Updates investors about the company’s operations each quarter.
- S- 1: Filed when a company wants to register new stock. Can contain information about the company’s operating history and business risks.
- S-2 : Filed when a company is completing a material transaction such as a merger or acquisition. Provides substantial detail underlying the terms and conditions of the transaction, the events surrounding the transaction, and justification for the merger or acquisition.-K: Filed when a company faces a “material event” such as a merger.
- Schedule A: A proxy statement. Gives details about the annual meeting and biographies of company officials and directors including stock ownership and pay.
