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Bloomberg Professional

The Bloomberg Professional service is the interactive financial information network that is Bloomberg's core business. Available 24 hours a day to more than 260,000 professionals in over 100 countries, the service seamlessly integrates data, news, analytics, multimedia reports, and e-mail into a single platform. It is used by market professionals around the world to make informed decisions and to complete transactions—in any currency and in a way that is meaningful, accurate, and consistent.

McIntire's Bloomberg terminal is available 24 hours a day and is located in the north basement hallway near the Bridge Center.  For more information see the Bloomberg Web site.

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CRSP (The Center for Research in Security Prices)

The Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) maintains the most comprehensive collection of standard and derived security data available for the NYSE, AMEX, and Nasdaq stock market. CRSP is a research center at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and maintains historical data spanning from December 1925 to the present. CRSP's trademark of unique issue identifiers tracks a continuous history of securities, providing a seamless time series examination of the issue's history. CRSP's unparalleled accuracy and dedication to excellence have made CRSP data a staple of academic and commercial research and data analysis throughout the world.

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Disclosure SEC

The Disclosure SEC database provides comprehensive company information for over 12,000 companies traded on the major U.S. stock exchanges. Company information is obtained from the most reliable sources, including SEC filings, insider trading filings and analysis, state and federal agency documents, criminal and civil filings, and bankruptcy filings.

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Global Insight (formerly DRI-WEFA)

Data from Global Insight is available through DRIPro and Webstract software.  Most data series are also available via the WRDS service.

Financial data from multiple asset classes include fixed income, derivatives, commodities, equities, global index coverage, and a multitude of derived data sets. All data have been extensively researched to provide the most history available.

Economic data are available in historical and varied forecast horizons. Global Insight currently inventories data for over 200 countries and over 50 different industries. The comprehensive historical databases are fully integrated with detailed forecasting models offering both data and analysis. Data are provided in a fully consistent format, facilitating comparisons across countries and currencies.

Industry data in historical and forecast time series covering a broad range of sectoral performance metrics such as production, employment, costs, capital spending, and prices.

Current version: Webstract 3.1.5, DRIPro 5.1.0b

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Lexis/Nexis Research Software

LexisNexis provides authoritative legal, news, public records, and business information, including tax and regulatory publications.

Current version: 7.2.1.5

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Moneyline Telerate

TelerateStation is an advanced desktop offering management tools, connectivity to trading and transaction services, and simultaneous access to premium information from Moneyline Telerate. With comprehensive worldwide data, superior analytics, advanced charting capabilities, news, and research from a variety of sources, TelerateStation meets all your information needs.

Telerate offers an Excel add-in that allows users to easily retrieve basic company financial information.  McIntire subscribes to full Nasdaq Level II data.

Current Version: 6.3.4

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SDC Platinum

As the world's foremost financial transactions database, SDC Platinum is the source for the most thorough and accurate account of the entire global financial marketplace. Providing the most detailed information available on new issues, M&A, syndicated loans, private equity, project finance, poison pills, and more, SDC Platinum is the industry standard in financial transactions information. Using an international team of expert analysts researching hundreds of sources daily, SDC Platinum satisfies the need for a global reach from a local perspective.

Current version: 2.2

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Simmons Choices

Simmons research covers important markets critical to advertisers, agencies, and media alike.

Clearly and concisely see complex relationships between customers and brands in an easy-to-understand statistical picture known as correspondence mapping. Correspondence mapping presents a picture of the different brands within a category based on the psychographic statements that differentiate brand users. Clustering then takes this map and creates specific consumer segments that tie customers to the brands they use (or merchants to lifestyle groups) and to the media they consume. These invaluable pictures explain relationships between brands within the category in a quick, easy way. No more digging through long research reports and piles of cross tabs. The next step is to identify the segments offering the best opportunity for growth. Media and marketing plans can then be developed to target those segments with the most promise. Visually see who your new prospects are or how you can differentiate yourself from the competition.

Current Studies available at McIntire:
NCS Fall 2000
Hispanic Fall 2000

For more information visit Simmons.

SNL Datasource

SNL’s flagship database service provides comprehensive access to the most timely, accurate, and relevant information on each of the industries it covers – banking, financial services, insurance, and real estate. Because of SNL's unique information-gathering efforts and in-depth industry expertise, the DataSource delivers substantial advantages over any similar database services for professionals who need the very best data and news.

Each industry module - banking, financial services, insurance, real estate - contains the following information for all SEC-filing companies in the United States. For specific content on each industry, click the industry modules in which you’re interested.

Financial Data
Standardized historical data (raw numbers and pre-calculated ratios) going back 10 years and up to 20 quarters with data items specific to each industry and/or sub-industry. Restated and originally reported data available (where applicable).

Corporate Data
Address and Web site information, officers, and company contacts, institutional and insider ownership, debt ratings, advisers, IPO data.

Market Data
Pricing multiples, stock price history, volume statistics, total return, general market and SNL index values, analyst estimates, stock splits, dividend and yield information.

M&A Data
Historical transaction information for all whole deals and asset sales, including buyer/seller/target information, buyer and target financials, deal terms and consideration, pricing ratios specific to each industry type, advisers, deal analysis, and related news stories.

Capital Issue Data
Detail on every equity and preferred issue and certain debt issues, including amount outstanding, price, and volume.

Document Archive
Searchable database of both EDGAR documents and tens of thousands of scanned non-EDGAR documents including regulatory agency filings and analyst supplements with .pdf download option. 8-Ks and other non-standard documents are abstracted to save you time.

News Archive
Historical searchable database of news summaries and proprietary stories, with all stories coded to specific categories.

Investor Presentations
Archive of presentations delivered by management at investor conferences, annual meetings, and road shows.

Analyst Coverage
Consensus and individual EPS/FFO estimates from FirstCall/IBES.

Compensation Data
From the proxies, commingled with financial and market performance data

Current Version: 4.0

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SNL Energy Datasource

Company Level Data
Detailed corporate, financial, operating, and market information on more than 7,000 companies. SNL's database covers diversified holding companies, investor-owned utilities, municipalities, rural electric cooperatives, public power companies, independent power producers, local gas distribution companies, and interstate pipelines.

Plant and Unit Level Data
Annual financial and operating information for over 6,500 regulated, unregulated, and proposed plants composed of more than 11,000 generating units. Data on regulated, unregulated, and proposed plants.

Gas Data
Complete quarterly SEC financial data and corporate and operating data at the state and company level. Companies include both local distribution companies and pipeline owners and operators.

Current Version 3.0

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S&P's Compustat

Standard & Poor's Compustat data provides fundamental and market data on 54,000 companies via direct feed and online and through analytical software solutions. Every day, institutional money managers around the world depend on Compustat data for vital company, index, and industry information that supports their financial models and proprietary company and industry analyses. Institutional investors count on Compustat data for its unparalleled objectivity, historical coverage, and depth.

Access to Compustat data is available through the WRDS system.

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S&P's Research Insight

Standard & Poor's Research Insight gives quick access to authoritative financial data, insightful company reports, performance graphs, and documents -- as well as extensive functionality and capability to drive your work from analysis to insight. Fully customizable and completely accessible through Microsoft Excel, Research Insight allows for sophisticated financial modeling, backtesting, multiple regression, industry analysis, stock screening and stock selection.

Among its many features, Standard & Poor's Research Insight analytical software provides: web database downloads and software upgrades; the new International Quality Ranking (IQR) scoring model for select global companies using Standard & Poor's proprietary calculations -- based on historical dividends, earnings and sales data; industry-specific and regional report models; more than 250 Insider Trading and 300 Institutional Ownership data items with related screens and reports; and much more.

*Research Insight provides 20 years of monthly, quarterly, and annual data. Data are updated quarterly.

Current Version: 7.8

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StockVal

The StockVal System is a comprehensive, integrated, and versatile software/database package that has been developed for analysis and valuation modeling of corporate equities. It combines advanced equity valuation concepts, a proprietary database of clean and consistently stated financial information and a multitude of analytical features designed to facilitate the equity selection process. StockVal System has been designed to give the analyst and portfolio manager instantaneous access to the data that drives equity pricing, along with the tools and flexibility required for institutional investment professionals.

Envisioned as a franchise in equity analytics, StockVal System provides a totally integrated suite of analytic capacities, graphics, and the highest quality database of corporate information. Users are afforded the opportunity to apply their own methodologies and disciplines to the equity valuation process, in an efficient and intuitive fashion. At the organizational level, StockVal System provides a common language of analysis through which ideas can be debated, tested, and presented for ultimate decision making.

Current Version: 11.0

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TAQ

The Trade and Quote (TAQ) database contains intraday transactions data (trades and quotes) 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.

The TAQ database is available through the WRDS system.

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Virgo (University Library)

The University of Virginia Library offers access to numerous online journals and references such as

Note many databases are available off-Grounds only through the UVA proxy server or via the McIntire VPN.

Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS)

WRDS provides instant access to important databases in the fields of finance, accounting, banking, economics, management, marketing, and public policy.

  • A Simple Yet Powerful Web Interface. Point-and-click access to many databases is offered. You can research one firm or several hundred firms simultaneously. All the databases have a common interface and a consistent data format.

  • A Host of Research Applications. Sophisticated tools and sample programs for a variety of research are offered, including conducting event studies, testing asset-pricing models using Fama-French portfolios, calculating bid-ask spreads on different exchanges and securities, and much more.

  • Support from a Team of Ph.D.s and IT Specialists. Whether you use the web interface or run customized programs on the WRDS UNIX server, WRDS' staff of Ph.D.s and programmers will answer your research and programming questions.

  • Classroom Learning Enhancements. WRDS interface is simple and straightforward. Faculty can easily integrate research data into classroom lectures and student projects.

Timely Updates. The WRDS IT staff converts and installs database updates, so research data can be accessed immediately. You no longer have to spend countless hours programming and decoding tapes or writing Fortran access programs.

WRDS provides access to COMPUSTAT, CRSP, Dow Jones Averages, FDIC, Foreign Exchange Rates, Global Insight (formerly DRI), NYSE TAQ, PHLX, Thomson Financial.

WRDS access is available through the web or by secure Telnet or FTP connection (software required).

McIntire Faculty may create an account on the WRDS Web site at http://wrds.wharton.upenn.edu.  Account requests are generally fulfilled within 24 hours.

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Analytica

Current Version: 2.0 Academic

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Crystal Ball

Current Version: 5.2.2 Professional

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Lisrel

Current Version: 8.3

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AMOS

Current Version: 4.01

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SAS

Current Version: 8.2

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SPSS

Current Version: 11.5

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