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Searching Social Media

When researching a company, product, market, business person or industry, do not forget to check one of the most ubiquitous methods of communication -- social media sites.

Articles & News

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Factiva also provides American congressional committee hearings, publications of selected U.S. government departments and agencies,The Federal Register and state laws and regulations, publications of U.S. government watchdog organizations, and selected international government publications.
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Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
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Contains text in Bosnian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, Flemish, French / Français, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Serbian, Turkish, and Ukrainian languages.
Zephyr (Bureau van Dijk) This link opens in a new window
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Detailed information on financial deals, completed, announced or rumoured, worldwide. Includes approximately new 80,000 deals per year. Has five years of global coverage and includes deals involving European or American companies going back to 1997.Various deal types are covered including: M&A activity, IPOs, joint ventures and private equity deals.
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Suggested Databases

EMIS This link opens in a new window
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Mergent Online This link opens in a new window
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Mergent Archives This link opens in a new window
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Contains the entire run of all Mergent and Moody's Corporate Manuals, including Bank & Finance, Industrial, International, OTC Industrial, Public Utility, Transportation, and OTC Unlisted. The latest editions are added annually. Each manual is available in full-text in PDF format and the collection is searchable by company name, year, or manual type.
Contains PDF copies of corporate annual reports for American and International companies (Including Canadian) going as far back as 1874.
NetAdvantage This link opens in a new window
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S & P Global Net Advantage includes detailed company profiles (financial information, stock & fixed income data), executive information and industry research. Screening tools for companies and stocks are available. Global coverage.
Orbis (Bureau van Dijk) This link opens in a new window
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Orbis provides information on close to 400 million companies (both private and public) and entities across the globe. 41 million of these have detailed financial information. There are three additional modules hosted on the Orbis platform:
- EDGAR Filings are US SEC documents available for publicly quoted companies on US stock exchanges, banks, and insurance companies. Examples would be 8-K, 10-K, Proxy, and information statements.
- News Service aggregates news pieces from several sources, including Acquire Media, Dow Jones, and Thomson Reuters. Access includes full articles and tags for topics, industries, and countries.
- Zephyr is the most comprehensive database of deal information, and it is updated hourly, and is useful for corporate finance research. It contains information on M&A, IPO, private equity / venture capital deals, rumors, and other transaction-level details.
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