Bloomberg is a major global provider of 24-hour financial news and information, including real-time and historic price data, financials data, trading news and analyst coverage, emerging market data and more.
Look up your company, then click on the Financials link to access up to six years of balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow data. You can compare financials of top competitors or specific companies of your choosing.
Offers a comprehensive collection of business information on company, industry and country profiles that facilitate a better understanding of the different global markets.
Covers industry and company profiles, case study reports, financial deals articles, and country reports.
Datastream
Located on data computer in the Government Documents area. Restricted to current BU faculty & students only. Provides historical coverage of major securities from worldwide markets, plus increasing data coverage on emerging markets and new instruments. Includes equity, index, commodity, currency, bond, economic data, and more
Coverage: varies, with some data going back 30 years. Includes equity, index, commodity, currency, bond, economic data, and more. Data is available in daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly formats. Output easily transfers into Excel.
Compustat
Items reported by companies in standard financial reports, such as quarterly and annual income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements. Both current and historical data are available. Accessed via WRDS.
CRSP (Center for Research in Security Prices)
Has price data for the NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ stock markets. For research requiring large datasets. Accessed via WRDS.
Contains a wide variety of company information as well as newspaper and newswires articles.
Includes full-text access to thousands of news sources in the U.S. and abroad back to the 1970s; articles and data on businesses, corporations, industries and markets in the U.S. and abroad; magazines and trade journals; biographical information and special directories; legal documents, including U.S. Federal and State court cases, and law reviews from the late 18th century to present.
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.
The database is in two sections: Corporate and Municipal. WebReports contain more than 180,000 documents covering over 100 countries and industries using an easy-to-navigate and reliable system. Updated annually. Coverage: 1909 - present.
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. Use Internet Explorer.
Limited to two simultaneous users.
TRACE
Trade Reporting and Compliance Engine is FINRA's over-the-counter (OTC) corporate bond market real-time price dissemination service. It provides comprehensive, real-time access to corporate bond price information. Accessed via WRDS
The interface used to access the Compustat, CRSP, IHS Global Insight, and other large financial and economic data files. Use of these files requires registration and is strictly restricted to Binghamton University faculty and students. A full listing of WRDS databases is listed on the WRDS page.
