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Tom Messner
updated 09/16/09

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Journal Articles

Newspapers

Company Information Financial Ratio Analysis Industry Analysis
Securities and Exchange Com
 Stock Charts
 Securities Laws
Stock Exchange Links
Historical Stock Prices
Other Online Resources
Treasury Yields
 Bond Pricing
Commodity Pricing


Getting Started:

NSU Broken Arrow Library Home Page http://library.nsuok.edu/nsuba/index.html

Fundamental Analysis from Investopedia : http://www.investopedia.com/university/fundamentalanalysis/

Technical Analysis from Investopedia: http://www.investopedia.com/university/technical/

 Journal Indexes (search for articles in journals and magazines on your topic)

http://library.nsuok.edu/Resources/Indexes/index.html

1.) Ebscohost-"Family of databases"

A.) Business Source Elite

Provides full text for over 1,060 journals covering business, management, economics, finance, banking, accounting, and much more.

B.) Academic Search

Provides full text for nearly 1,560 journals covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education,

and much more.

2.) Proquest (ABI Inform)

Includes selected full text and images of a wide variety of business journals.

3.) Wilson OmniFile

Wilson OmniFile: Full Text Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text databases:

Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, Wilson Business Full Text


 

 Newspapers (good for current events)

Wall Street Journal -The Wall Street Journal is one of the leading daily business newspaper publications available in the United States. Its various sections cover current business and industry information as well as daily quotes of stocks, bonds, mutual funds, interset rates, and other financial instruments.

1.) Newsbank and Ebscohost Newspapers(on the newspapers page)-includes full text articles from several national newspapers. http://library.nsuok.edu/Refdesk/newspapers/index.html

2).Yahoo Newspapers by country:

http://dir.yahoo.com/News_and_Media/Newspapers/By_Region/Countries/


 


 Corporate Financial Information

1.) Mergent online

Mergent provides a fully searchable database of 15,000 U.S. public companies (active and inactive) listed on the NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ exchanges. Each company report incorporates up-to-the-minute news items.

Mergent Online offers access to Wall Street consensus earnings estimates on all companies in the database followed by at least one Wall Street analyst. Mergent's company files also provide access to EDGAR® filings dating back to 1993 and updated daily.

Rich textual descriptions offer a wealth of detail on items including business description, history, property, subsidiaries, officers and directors, long-term debt and capital stock. Financial statements are presented in "as-reported" form and in native currencies, maintaining the full integrity of this critical information

 

2.) Thomson Analytics Excellent tool for researching peer corporations within predetermined or customizable peer groups.

 
3.) Valueline

4.) Morningstar

5.) Annual reports from Annualreports.com  free online annual reports to shareholders for most major US corporations.



 

Industry Analysis

    

1. ) Standard and Poor’s (NetAdvantage) Online version of the Standard and Poors Surveys and Corporate Records

 

Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys are the fastest way to come up to speed on the players and events impacting over fifty (50) of the largest North American and global industries. Ideal for management consultants, strategic planners, money managers, public and academic librarians, students, and business faculty; Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys enable readers to think and act like industry insiders.

Each report is authored by a Standard & Poor's industry research analyst and includes the following sections: Current Environment, Industry Trends, How the Industry Operates, Key Industry Ratios and Statistics, How to Analyze a Company, Glossary of Industry Terms, Additional Industry Information References and Comparative Company Financial Analysis.

 
2.) Credit Ratings Explained


3.) Manufacturing & Distribution USA
:                              Call Number:  Ref HD 9721.M3495 2003    3 volumes          location: Reference collection NSU BA Library

 




Financial Ratio Analysis

1.) Almanac of Business and Industrial Financial Ratios: (Also know as the “Troy Almanac”) Call number Ref HF 5681 .R25 T68 location : Reference collection NSU BA Library

 

Annual Statement Studies/RMA                                    Call number: Ref  HF 5681 .B2 R58                       Location: Reference collection NSU BA Library

 


Stock Exchange Links

1.) Internal List of Securities Exchanges form INO.com http://www.ino.com/resources/exchanges/



Stock Price Charts
1.) Big Charts form Market Watch  http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/default.asp?siteid=&avatar=seen&dist=ctbc



Securities Laws

1.) Securities Laws, Rules, Regulation and Information: from SEC LAW.COM  http://www.seclaw.com/secrules.htm

2.) U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission: Laws that govern the securities industry http://www.sec.gov/about/laws.shtml


Historical Stock Prices

1.) Yahoo Finance: Historical prices of publicly trade stocks are available through Yahoo Finance.
Prices are available by first searching for an individual company and then selecting "Historical Prices" from the menu on the left side of the page.  http://finance.yahoo.com/



Treasury Department Yields
Treasury Yields http://www.ustreas.gov/offices/domestic-finance/debt-management/interest-rate/yield.shtml



Bond Pricing

Securities Industry and Financial Markets Assoc.Investing in Bonds http://www.investinginbonds.com/marketataglance.asp?catid=32


Commodity Pricing
Trading Charts (and quotes) http://tfc-charts.w2d.com/menu.html




Other
Online Resources

Wall Street Journal (Market data) Online: http://online.wsj.com/mdc/public/page/marketsdata.html

Barrons Online: http://online.barrons.com/home-page

Quote.com: http://www.quote.com/home.action

Industry Center : Yahoo Finance:      http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/ind_index.html

 

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Last Updated: September 16,  2009