At a basic level market and trading data is easy to find. A simple search on an internet search engine for a company will retrieve the current trading price. However, if you need to look at a particular figure in-depth to compare against others, you will need to use a more advanced database.
While much of the content is common among the databases, in-depth data with analysis capabilities are unique to each database.
Basic financial and market data can be found through these web-based databases:
For more complex queries, the databases below can help you find, chart and interpret specialised data.
Profit and loss, balance sheet, ratios and trends, stock prices, credit score and rating information for major public and private British companies. Lists of companies can be created using any combination of 300 search items.
Limitation: Please note that Moody's resources may be used for educational research only, and may not be used for institutional business purposes.
Company financials, stock prices, descriptions, history, property, subsidiaries officers and directors, long - term debt and capital stock.
User Guide available in Business Library Moodle 2024-2025. Non-Business School students and staff should email businesslibrary@city.ac.uk.
Global financial markets database providing news, analytics, real time pricing for millions of securities world-wide plus extensive historical pricing and stock charts.
Available on campus only from dedicated terminals:
• 7 bookable terminals in the Financial Resources Zone, Business Library
• 10 non-bookable terminals in the Bloomberg Finance Lab, Bunhill Row
• 10 bookable terminals in the Financial Resources Suite, Northampton Square
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Markets are Bloomberg's main focus. Thousands of its functions have been created to help analyse various different aspects of markets. If you are unsure of whether Bloomberg has a function for your topic, type the name of the concept into the blue search bar at the top of your Bloomberg window. Don't press Enter and see which search suggestions appear.
Comprehensive financial data, analytics, and insights for global markets, including real-time news, pricing, and specialist research tools. Includes data from Worldscope, I/B/E/S, Lipper and Asset 4.
Use the Excel Add-in to download data and access Datastream.
Refinitiv Eikon has extensive analysis and data for researching markets data around the world. Built into Eikon is the database Datastream, which is best when accessed over the Datastream Excel Add-in. The Datastream Excel add-in allows you to acquire data on Equities, indices, commodities and more directly through Excel. If you have an existing list of securities, you can use the Excel Add-in for Eikon or Datastream to retrieve line items about your securities without having to create a search again.
Provides access to 350,000 investments in indexes, equities, hedge funds, segregated accounts, open-end funds, closed-end funds, insurance/pension/life and exchange traded funds.
Morningstar specialises in investments and funds portfolio data, but it also has Equities data. It can be accessed through the Morningstar software itself or through the Morningstar Excel Add-in.
Company fundamental and market information on active and inactive publicly held companies, in North American and Global datasets.
Normalized to provide comparability across a variety of global accounting standards and practices. WRDS dataset.
Detailed research on over 150,000 active audits and over 10,000 accounting firms. Includes detailed categorisations of issues to enable tracking and analysis of public company disclosures.
WRDS dataset listed under Audit Analytics.
Data on actions, disclosures and correspondence by companies, advisors, regulators and investors. Coverage includes SEC Comment Letters, Litigation, Bankruptcy and Shareholder Activism.
WRDS dataset listed under Audit Analytics.
Provides extensive debt capital structure for over 60,000 global public and private companies and equity capital structure data on over 80,000 active and inactive companies worldwide.
WRDS dataset listed under Compustat.
Security price, return, and volume data for NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ, including stock indices, beta- and cap-based portfolios, treasury bond and risk-free rates, mutual funds and real estate.
WRDS dataset.
Global institutional, mutual fund, stakeholder, and float-related share ownership information covering equity positions held in 120 countries.
WRDS dataset. Use Factset to investigate share ownership from company and holder perspective, analyze ownership data or examine historical share movements.