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Business Source Complete
Click on the Company Profiles button to get company reports. Do an article search to get Industry profiles.
Business Insights: Essentials
Has both industry and company reports and also contains financials.
Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage
Contains both industry and company reports, primarily for U.S. companies.
LexisNexis Academic Universe
Contains a wide variety of company information as well as newspaper and newswire articles.
Mergent Online
Contains detailed company information and industry reports. To access the industry reports, click on the Report Search link at the top of the page. Then pick your industry.
Mergent WebReports
This contains company information taken from the Mergent (Moody's) Corporate Manuals. Some records go back to the 1920s. Company information for the current year is embargoed (not included), but is available in print volumes in the Bartle Reference area.
Morningstar Investment Center
Better if used in Internet Explorer. This database provides real-time access to comprehensive data and independent analysis on thousands of investments, spanning mutual funds, stocks, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and closed-end funds. Limited to two simultaneous users.
ThomsonONE.com
Can only be used in Internet Explorer. ThomsonONE.com covers company financial information including overviews, corporate events, corporate governance, fundamentals, estimates, debt overview, deals, share ownership, research, filings, and officers and directors.
Proquest Newstand
Newspaper index that covers the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times, as well as other major papers.
Datastream

Has U.S. and international equity information, economic data, and more. Can only be accessed on one terminal located behind the Reference Desk in Bartle Library.

Web Sites

Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) Provides industry data as well as other economic indicators.

CNN Money.com Business and economic news and company information.

County Business Patterns Some basic industry information on the county level is available here.

Economic Census Provides industry and economic information on the national, state, and local level. Most sections updated every 5 years, though some are updated annually.

Forbes Lists

Inc. 500

Yahoo Finance Business and economic news and company information.