UGBA 137-3: Introduction to Financial Engineering

Use the OskiCat catalog to find books. Try the subject heading financial engineering to start.

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• Mergent Online
  Provides financial information on U.S.and international companies. Look up companies' performance for the past years. Use data from SEC disclosures to create custom tables.
  
• Thomson Research Investext
  Analyst reports from investment banks. Note: works best with Internet Explorer.
  
• Value Line Research Center
  Full access to a classic source for investment information. Incluedes several Value Line products:the Investment Survey; Mutual Fund Survey; Daily Options Survey; and more.
  
• Mergent WebReports (Moody's Online Manuals)
  Online access to Moody's Manuals (old name) from 1909 including the current weekly updates to Mergent Manuals (new name).
  

Global Financial Data

• US stock prices
• US and worldwide macroeconomic data
• Very long historical series

Wharton Research Data Service (WRDS)

• Company financials from COMPUSTAT
• Stock prices from CRSP
• Stock ownership from Thomson Reuters
• Economic data from Global Insight
• Earnings estimates from I/B/E/S
• Many ways to manipulate data, using SPSS or UNIX-type commands
• Use MFE login for remote access and expert commands

Datastream

• Huge database of international, historical data
• Stocks and bonds, indexes, macroeconomic data, options, futures, exchange rates, and more
• Confusing interface
• Can only be used from the standalone terminal in Long Library

SDC

• Mergers & acquisitions and new issuances of stocks and bonds, going back to the early 1980's
• Extremely confusing interface
• Can only be used from the standalone terminal in Long Library

The databases below represent core indexing and abstracting resources in business and economics.  For a complete listing of business-related databases, follow this link.  For a complete listing of all UC Berkeley database subscriptions, follow this link.

• Business Source Complete
  Provides full-text for more than 7,400 scholarly business journals and other sources.
  
• Academic Search Complete
  A multidisciplinary index to articles in more than 10,900 journals and other publications.
  
• Factiva
  Provides general and business news and information from more than 9,000 sources.
  
• LexisNexis Academic
  Includes over 6,000 individual titles of international, national and local newspapers and wire services plus much more.
  

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