Kresge Research Guides: Finance: Market Data, Stocks, Bonds, IPOs

Market Data including Stocks, Mutual Funds, Commodities, Bonds, etc.

S&P Capital IQ
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S&P Capital IQ platform provides research, data, and analysis on private and public companies. Financial information for over 100,000 companies globally. Additional data on industries, capital structure, M&A, PE, fixed income, hierarchy/corporate family tree data, and company-level ownership information are also included. Historical and forecast macroeconomic data and historical data on over 270 commodities series, with some available to 1970.
For S&P Capital IQ Transcripts, see WRDS
LSEG Workspace
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LSEG Workspace is a web based platform providing access to information on global public & private companies including financials and filings analytics, global pricing data, company fundamentals, I/B/E/S® earnings estimate aggregates, Investext After Market Research analyst reports, league tables, ESG data, and commodity data. LSEG Workspace was previously known as Thomson Reuters, Thomson ONE, Thomson ONE Banker, Eikon, and Refinitiv. NOTE: Registration is required and can take 24 hours. Accounts need to be renewed regularly to stay activated. See the link for more info.
Intelligize
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Covers public company filings and other market information. Intelligize is great for searching across SEC filings.
Mergent Online
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Current and historical (past 15 years) firm descriptions, statistics, financial information and ratios, annual reports, mergers, acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, long-term debt, bond ratings, capital stock, insider trading and supply chain for US and foreign companies. Mergent Online also provides access to Investext analyst reports.
Help guide
WRDS Wharton Research Data Services
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Access to datasets including COMPUSTAT, CRSP, Eventus, I/B/E/S (Earnings estimates), OptionMetrics, TRACE and more.
Data sets include:

Bank Regulatory
Beta Suite by WRDS
Blockholders
BoardEx
Bureau van Dijk
CBOE Indexes
Compustat - Capital IQ
CRSP
DMEF Academic Data
Dow Jones
Efficient Frontier by WRDS
Event Study by WRDS
Eventus
Fama French & Liquidity Factors
Federal Reserve Bank
Financial Ratios Suite by WRDS
IBES
IHS Global Insight
Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS)
ISSM
Linking Suite by WRDS
MFLINKS
MSRB
Option Metrics
Option Suite by WRDS
OTC Markets
Penn World Tables
Peters and Taylor Total Q
PHLX
Public
RavenPack News Analytics
Research Quotient
SAS Visual Analytics
SEC Order Execution
Thomson Reuters
TRACE
World Indices by WRDS

For descriptions see WRDS Dataset List from Ross Research Computing

IPOs

Orbis M&A (formerly Zephyr)
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Use the Advanced Search screen of Zephyr to search across deals, including M&A activity, IPOs, joint ventures, and private equity deals.

On-site Databases

Bloomberg

Use Bloomberg to find current and historical financial information on individual equities, stock market indices, fixed-income securities, currencies, commodities, and futures for both international and domestic markets.
Multiple Bloomberg terminals are available in the Tozzi Financial Center (located in the basement of Ross) and one terminal is located in the Kresge 4th floor study area.

Factset

Use Factset to find financial data from global equity and fixed income markets, and public and private companies
Scroll down to the Factset entry for information on how to request an account.
Factset is also available in the Tozzi Center.

Datastream

See LSEG Workspace for access (note: account activation can take 24+ hours)
Datastream is a historical financial database with data on instruments from all major asset classes and economic indicators. Datastream has been incorporated into LSEG Workspace as of 2024.
- Data spans bond indices, bonds, commodities, convertibles, credit default swaps, derivatives, economics, energy, equities, equity indices, ESG, estimates, exchange rates, fixed income, funds, fundamentals, interest rates, and investment trusts.
- Unique content includes I/B/E/S earnings estimate aggregates (International Brokers Estimate System), Worldscope Fundamentals Point in Time data, MCSI, DJ Stoxx and FTSE All World, and Reuters Polls.

Bloomberg Tips

Hedge Funds in Bloomberg

For news on hedge funds, type NI Hedge, then hit <GO>.
For a listing of hedge funds tracked in Bloomberg, type Hedge Fund, hit the HELP key, and then select #11 Funds from the menu.
For Portfolio holdings information type PSRT hit <GO>, and then fill in the relevant menu options.
For screening and other options, type HFND then hit <GO>.

IPOs in Bloomberg

For new issue calendar main menu, type ECDR then hit <GO>.
ECDR3 <GO>– Listing of all IPO’s and secondary offerings coming current week
ECDR8 <GO>– IPO summary, total number of and dollar value of new issues by month
ECDR13 <GO>– Lists IPOs by industry