This award winning research guide from Rutgers lists international stock and commodity exchanges, including those dealing in futures, options, and derivatives, as well as electronic communications networks (ECN) and alternative trading systems (ATS), and sources for market and stock prices and reports.
Presents monthly and historical returns from 1926 to present with highlights of the market from the previous year. Analyzes stocks, bonds, and bills by yield, total returns, inflation, and adjusted returns.
Provided by the Wall Street Journal, this website provides current data on US stocks, international markets, ETFs, mutual funds, bonds, credit markets, commidities, futures, currencies, and earnings.
The mission of the SEC is to protect investors, maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and facilitate capital formation. They do this through the Divisions of Corporation Finance, Enforcement, Investment Management, and Trading and Markets.
Bankruptcies
Bankruptcy Yearbook and Almanac
This annual includes statistics and details concerning corporate bankruptcies. Data covers current and historical bankruptcies; corporate restructuring and defaults; and some international bankruptcy data and analysis.
Full-text information on U.S. and non-U.S. companies. Includes company history, officers, subsidiaries, financial data, and annual reports. Access to SEC filings (EDGAR) back to 1993. Also includes Company Archives for historical information and US and International Industry Reports. Provides up to 30 years of historical daily international stock pricing, downloadable to Excel. Available to Georgetown alumni.
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Covers over 80 million private and public companies worldwide. Corporate family tree and coverage of millions of executives.
Covers stocks, mutual funds (open-end), and exchange traded funds (closed-end). Database can be searched by name, security, or fund or stock screeners. Additional features include analyst reports for stocks and funds and Portfolio X-Ray to review allocations across many different funds.
Contains an overview of what a mutual fund is, the trends, and the various mutual fund investment objectives. The statistics section includes fund assets, sales, and portfolio purchases. 1968-present in the stacks.
Provided by the Wall Street Journal, this website provides current day data on US stocks, international markets, ETFs, mutual funds, bonds, credit markets, commodities, futures, currencies, and earnings.
This International Monetary Fund source provides current and historical financial information on member countries. Once in the landing page, change time period, then click on "Commodity Prices". 1945- Tutorial from UIUC: http://cooper.library.uiuc.edu/bel/classes/ifs/index.phtml
provides time-series and cross sectional data from over 210 countries and territories covering statistics on agriculture, nutrition, fisheries, forestry, food aid, land use and population. 1961-
Mergent's BondViewer contains information for corporate and municipal fixed income data for active and inactive issues. From pre-sale through defeasance, BondViewer provides on-demand access to a wide-range of bond data including both issuer and bond level terms and condition data, US taxable bonds, municipal bonds and retail notes. To find international government bond data use Corporate selection
Use this general bond market screener for U.S. Treasury, Agency, Corporate and Municipal Bonds: price information with real-time transaction prices. Searching criteria: symbol, maturity, yield, current price, coupon rate, type, rating, interest payments, callable, and putable.
Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB)'s EMMA is a website that provides free public access to objective municipal market information and interactive tools
Information about Specific Municipal Securities
Official statements (the prospectus for a municipal bond)
Trade prices, yields and other data about a bond’s trading history
Financial disclosure documents from the issuer of the bond
Other ongoing disclosure documents about events affecting the bond
Information about 529 savings plans and ABLE programs
Market-Wide Information
Yield curves and indices from third-party providers
Calendar of municipal securities scheduled to be offered
Calendar of upcoming economic reports and events that may have an impact on the municipal bond market
Market statistics about overall trading patterns and most active securities
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