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Databases: Financial Market Data

These databases are made available to you by Jackson Library for academic use only.  They are accessible via GSB (or Stanford) Computers. 

Your top choices (in select order)

Database / Access Restrictions Description / Guide
Global Financial Data [icon - Stanford Network] [icon - Password]

   • Current Stanford students, faculty, and staff only
      (SUNet ID required)
   • Off-campus access instruction

Description: World economic data on over 150 countries.
Help: Quick Guide [icon - pdf]

CRSP [icon-GSB]

   • Off-campus access instruction 

Description: Stock price, volume, and return data for NYSE, ASE, and NASDAQ. Produced by the University of Chicago's Center for Research in Securities Prices. Details
Help:Quick Guide [icon - pdf]

Bloomberg

   • Current Stanford students, faculty, and staff only
   • Access in Trader's Pit [icon - Stanford Network] [icon - Password]

Description: Real-time and historical market data, news, technical analysis. 
Help: Quick Guide [icon - pdf]

Datastream [icon - Stanford Network] [icon - Password]

   • Current Stanford students, faculty, staff only
   • Access in Trader's Pit

 

Description: Easy-to-download historical data on stocks, bonds, commodities, and economic indicators.
Help:Quick Guide[icon - pdf]

LehmanLive [icon - Password] 

   • Current Stanford students, faculty, and staff only
   • Access online using Personal Account (IE Browser
     only); request an account
   • Also accessible in Trader's Pit


Description: Lehman Brothers' fixed income and equity research.

Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage [icon-GSB]

   • Off-campus access instruction

Description: S&P stock and bond guides and reports, mutual funds, dividend records, industry surveys, etc.
Help: Quick Guide [icon - pdf]

TAQ (Trade and Quote) [icon-GSB]

   • Off-campus access instruction

Description: Intraday transactions data for securities listed on NYSE, AMEX, Nasdaq National Market System (NMS) and SmallCap issues.
Help: Quick Guide [icon - pdf]

 
Thomson Reuters [icon-GSB]

   • Off-campus access instruction

Description: Mutual fund holdings (CDA/Spectrum s12), 13f institutional holdings (CDA/Spectrum s34), and Insider filing data. Data from 1986
Help: Quick Guide [icon - pdf]

SDC [icon - Password]

   • Current Stanford students, faculty, staff, and
      authorized visiting scholars only
   • Access at CD-ROM Workstation in Trader's Pit

 

Description: Data on M&A, IPOs, and VC funding (VentureXpert), from Securities Data Corporation. 
Help: Quick Guide[icon - pdf]

CISDM (Center for International Securities and Derivatives Markets)

   • Off-campus access instruction

Description: Hedge Funds, CTAs, and CPOs. Includes investment strategy/style, historical monthly returns, assets under management, leverage, minimum initial investment, and fee structure.

Directory of Alternative Investment Programs (AIP)

   • Access at CD-ROM Workstation in Trader's Pit
   • Also accessible online at Information Desk [icon - Password]

Description: Profiles key players in the alternative investment market. A companion to Galante's Venture Capital & Private Equity Directory.
Help:Quick Guide [icon - pdf]

Mergent Fixed Income Securities Database (FISD)

   • Off-campus access instruction

Description: Data on publicly-offered U.S. bonds.


OptionMetrics

   • Off-campus access instruction

Description: Historical price and implied volatility data for the US equity and index options markets .

Berkeley Options

   • Access via GSB Unix [details]

Description: Real-time and historical market data, news and technical analysis.

Currency Options (PHLX)  

   • Off-campus access instruction

Description: Provides any combination of 10 currencies for a possible 100 currency pairs.

CRSP Mutual Funds [icon-GSB]

   • Off-campus access instruction

Description: Open-ended U.S. mutual fund data from 1961-  (quarterly updates).
Help:Quick Guide [icon - pdf]

First Call [icon-GSB]

   • Off-campus access instruction


Description: A history of First Call's Real Time Earnings Estimates.
HelpQuick Guide [icon - pdf]

Eventus

   • Off-campus access instruction

Description: Event studies using data directly from the CRSP stock base.

Dow Jones Averages & Total Return Indexes

   • Off-campus access instruction

Description: Includes daily and monthly data.

[icon-GSB] GSB Network     [icon - Stanford Network] Stanford Network    [icon - Password] Login Required

 

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