Databases - Financial Markets: Jackson Library: Stanford GSB

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.

GSB users can access web-based databases remotely through WebApps.
All Stanford users have off-campus access to databases that are on Stanford Network through the university's proxy server.

Your top choices: (Listed in select order)

GSB Network Stanford Network Login Required

Database	Access Restrictions
Global Financial Data Provides long term and current world economic data on over 150 countries. Includes comprehensive analysis tools that provide the ability to graph and analyze the data. Current Stanford students, faculty, and staff only. Access the Database (SUNet ID required) • Guide	Stanford computers Away from the GSB?
CRSP Produced by the University of Chicago's Center for Research in Securities Prices, the CRSP database contains daily and monthly price, volume, and return data for NYSE, ASE, and NASDAQ stocks. Details Quarterly updated data also available: CRSPQ Access the Database • Guide	GSB computers Away from the GSB?
Bloomberg Real-time and historical market data, news, technical analysis. Current Stanford students, faculty, and staff only. Guide	Trader's Pit
Datastream Long runs of easy-to-download data on stocks, bonds, commodities, and economic indicators. Current Stanford students, faculty, staff only. Guide	Trader's Pit
LehmanLive Provides Lehman Brothers' fixed income and equity research. Current Stanford students, faculty, and staff • request an account Access the Database (with personal account) (IE Browser only) or in Trader’s Pit	Personal Account or Trader's Pit
Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage A compilation of 18 S&P databases that provide a comprehensive picture of the investment world. Includes stock and bond guides and reports, mutual funds, dividend records, industry surveys, and much more. Access the Database • Guide	GSB computers Away from the GSB?
TAQ (Trade and Quote) Intraday transactions data for all securities listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and American Stock Exchange (AMEX), as well as Nasdaq National Market System (NMS) and SmallCap issues. Access the Database • Guide	GSB computers Away from the GSB?
Thomson Financial (Ownership Data) • Mutual fund holdings -- all registered funds filing with the SEC, plus 3,000 global funds. Data from 1980. • CDA/Spectrum institutional money manager holdings -- 13(f) common stock holdings and transactions. Data from 1980 • Insider filing data -- transaction and holdings info. Data from 1986 Access the Database • Guide	GSB computers Away from the GSB?
SDC Provides data on mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, and VC funding ( VentureXpert ). From Securities Data Corporation. Current Stanford students, faculty, staff, and authorized visiting scholars only. Guide	CD-ROM Workstation
CISDM (Center for International Securities and Derivatives Markets) Hedge Funds, CTAs, and CPOs. Includes investment strategy/style, historical monthly returns, assets under management, leverage, minimum initial investment, and fee structure. Access the Database	GSB computers Away from the GSB?
Directory of Alternative Investment Programs (AIP) A companion to Galante's Venture Capital & Private Equity Directory. Profiles public and corporate pension funds, endowments and foundations, finance and insurance companies, and other key players in the alternative investment market. Provides articles on institutional investors participation as well as analysis and rankings in the alternative investment market. Guide	CD-ROM Workstation or Online Access at Jackson Library Information Desk (Current Stanford Users Only)
Mergent FISD A comprehensive database of publicly-offered U.S. bonds. Contains issue details on over 140,000 corporate, corporate MTN (medium term note), supranational, U.S. Agency, and U.S. Treasury debt securities and includes more than 550 data items. Provides details on debt issues and the issuers, as well as transactions by insurance companies. It is used to research market trends, deal structures, issuer capital structures and other areas of fixed income debt research. Access the Database	GSB computers Away from the GSB?
OptionMetrics Historical (6+ years) prices of options and their associated underlying instruments, correctly calculated implied volatilities, and options sensitivities. Access the Database	GSB computers Away from the GSB?
Berkeley Options Real-time and historical market data, news and technical analysis. Details. Current Stanford faculty and PhD students only.	GSB Unix
Currency Options (PHLX) One of North America's primary, marketplaces for trading currency options. Provides any combination of 10 currencies for a possible 100 currency pairs. Access the Database	GSB computers Away from the GSB?
CRSP Mutual Funds Provides open-ended U.S. mutual fund data for funds of all investment objectives, principally equity funds, taxable and municipal bond funds, and money market funds. Data from 1961- (quarterly updates). Access the Database • Guide	GSB computers Away from the GSB?
First Call A history of First Call's Real Time Earnings Estimates containing major data tables including Broker Estimate Details, Consensus Estimates, Reported Actuals, Stock Splits, etc. Data back to 1990 on over 9,700 securities (US, Canadian, ADR's). Access the Database • Guide	GSB computers Away from the GSB?
Eventus Performs event studies that compute abnormal returns for specific corporate actions or events using data directly from the CRSP stock base. Access the Database	GSB computers Away from the GSB?
Dow Jones Averages & Total Return Indexes Includes daily and monthly data. Access the Database	GSB computers Away from the GSB?

Database

Access Restrictions

Global Financial Data

Provides long term and current world economic data on over 150 countries. Includes comprehensive analysis tools that provide the ability to graph and analyze the data.
Current Stanford students, faculty, and staff only.

Access the Database (SUNet ID required) • Guide

Stanford computers

Away from the GSB?

CRSP

Produced by the University of Chicago's Center for Research in Securities Prices, the CRSP database contains daily and monthly price, volume, and return data for NYSE, ASE, and NASDAQ stocks. Details
Quarterly updated data also available: CRSPQ

Access the Database • Guide

GSB computers

Away from the GSB?

Bloomberg

Real-time and historical market data, news, technical analysis.
Current Stanford students, faculty, and staff only.

Guide

Trader's Pit

Datastream

Long runs of easy-to-download data on stocks, bonds, commodities, and economic indicators. Current Stanford students, faculty, staff only.

Guide

Trader's Pit

LehmanLive

Provides Lehman Brothers' fixed income and equity research.
Current Stanford students, faculty, and staff • request an account

Access the Database (with personal account) (IE Browser only) or in Trader’s Pit

Personal Account

Trader's Pit

Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage

A compilation of 18 S&P databases that provide a comprehensive picture of the investment world. Includes stock and bond guides and reports, mutual funds, dividend records, industry surveys, and much more.

Access the Database • Guide

GSB computers

Away from the GSB?

TAQ (Trade and Quote)

Intraday transactions data for all securities listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and American Stock Exchange (AMEX), as well as Nasdaq National Market System (NMS) and SmallCap issues.

Access the Database • Guide

GSB computers

Away from the GSB?

Thomson Financial (Ownership Data)

• Mutual fund holdings -- all registered funds filing with the SEC, plus 3,000 global funds. Data from 1980.
• CDA/Spectrum institutional money manager holdings -- 13(f) common stock holdings and transactions. Data from 1980
• Insider filing data -- transaction and holdings info. Data from 1986

Access the Database • Guide

GSB computers

Away from the GSB?

SDC

Provides data on mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, and VC funding ( VentureXpert ). From Securities Data Corporation.
Current Stanford students, faculty, staff, and authorized visiting scholars only.

Guide

CD-ROM Workstation

CISDM (Center for International Securities and Derivatives Markets)

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

Access the Database

GSB computers

Away from the GSB?

Directory of Alternative Investment Programs (AIP)

A companion to Galante's Venture Capital & Private Equity Directory. Profiles public and corporate pension funds, endowments and foundations, finance and insurance companies, and other key players in the alternative investment market. Provides articles on institutional investors participation as well as analysis and rankings in the alternative investment market.

Guide

CD-ROM Workstation

Online Access
at Jackson Library Information Desk
(Current Stanford Users Only)

Mergent FISD

A comprehensive database of publicly-offered U.S. bonds. Contains issue details on over 140,000 corporate, corporate MTN (medium term note), supranational, U.S. Agency, and U.S. Treasury debt securities and includes more than 550 data items. Provides details on debt issues and the issuers, as well as transactions by insurance companies. It is used to research market trends, deal structures, issuer capital structures and other areas of fixed income debt research.

Access the Database

GSB computers

Away from the GSB?

OptionMetrics

Historical (6+ years) prices of options and their associated underlying instruments, correctly calculated implied volatilities, and options sensitivities.

Access the Database

GSB computers