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Trader's Pit

The Trader’s Pit is an array of financial data services offering current and historical data on stocks, bonds, futures, commodities, and other financial instruments, as well as international economic indicators. These tools are not on the GSB network, and are accessible only at these machines.  Passwords are required;  to obtain access, check out the binder for each product at the Reserve Desk in the Library.   

Bloomberg

A 24/7 real-time financial information network of news, data, and analyses of financial markets and business, and a source of data for all securities. An Excel function allows convenient downloading. Access is restricted to current Stanford faculty, students, and staff. 

• Key Strengths – Exhaustive market data / Detailed pre-fab charts and graphs
• Printing – Use "Print" key
• Documentation – Binder at Reserve Desk.  From inside Bloomberg, press the "Help" key at the terminal.  A database guide is also available.

Datastream

Key strength is long runs of historical data on international stocks, market indexes, bonds, commodities, exchange rates, futures, interest rates and economic data, easily downloadable into Excel. Access restricted to Stanford faculty, staff, students, GSB alumni and authorized visiting scholars.

• Key Strengths – Easy to download.  Extensive history files
• Printing and Downloading – Output can be saved in Excel format. DS Windows version provides graphing 
• Documentation – Binder at Reserve Desk.  From inside Datastream, on-screen code and data type lookup.  A database guide  is also available.

LehmanLive

Provides Lehman Brothers fixed income and equity research, including reports, tables and charts on indices, treasuries, derivatives and more.

Access is restricted to current Stanford students, faculty, and staff. In addition to the terminal at Trader's Pit, registered users can access the database via the Web (IE Browser only). No new accounts are being accepted as of 1/5/09.

• Documentation - Check the database guide .

CD-ROM Workstations

Databases loaded on CD-ROM workstations, such as Choices 3, Sourcebook America, etc., are also housed in the Trader's Pit.

See Databases A-Z for availability of CD-ROM databases in the Library.