The Bloomberg Terminal is a powerful multi-functional tool used by over 300,000 finance professionals in 170+ countries. It is an interactive network providing coverage on every major asset class, most publicly traded securities, industries, economies and more. It provides real-time news, data, analytics, research, and business intelligence among other things all in a single platform.
Capital IQ is a platform offered by the research division of S&P Global Ratings, an American credit rating agency. This platform combines deep and broad global financial intelligence with an array of tools for analysis, ideation, and efficiency. S&P Capital IQ includes company financials, relationships among firms and people, biographical and contact data, transactions, events, securities data, ownership, brokerage estimates, corporate governance, regulatory filings, and news on private and public companies.
The Canadian Financial Markets Research Centre (CFMRC) summary information database (or CFMRC TSX database for short) includes daily and monthly Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) trading information about specific securities as well as information on "price adjustments" such as dividends, stock splits, recapitalizations, etc. The database also includes daily and monthly indexes containing information on daily and monthly index levels as well as selected other financial markets information. Daily data starts from January 1975 and monthly data from January 1950. For more information on data available with CFMRC TSX please visit the CHASS website.
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N.B. CFMRC/TSX may only be used for non-commercial research purposes.
This scholarly business database provides the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content (more than 2,800 journals), with indexing and abstracts (more than 3,700 journals) for the most important business journals. Additional materials include country economic reports, financial data, conference proceedings, investment research reports, market research reports, case studies company profiles, SWOT analyses and industry reports.
Over 6,000 Canadian and foreign newspapers, magazines and reports; most full text.
Factset is a platform with an easy intuitive interface for research that combines many different sources of analytics and data in order to facilitate monitoring of companies, global markets, and equity or fixed income securities.
Haver Analytics is a portal for all historical time series data for macroeconomic research and analysis. The database contains both annual economic statistics and daily market information. Data that can be obtained through the University of Ottawa's licenses include data for Canada and the U.S., G10+ Countries and emerging market countries. For more information, please visit the Haver Analytics website.
IBISWorld provides hundreds of in-depth Canadian, U.S. and Global industry market research and business environment reports.
NRG Metrics is created from a team of market professionals and academic researchers on the field of corporate governance. Its goal is to provide accurate data about corporate governance.
The uOttawa Library has access to NRG Metrics data from 2007 to 2018. To request access, contact the Data Services team.
Passport GMID (Global Market Information Database) is Euromonitor International's global market analysis software platform. Analyses industry trend data, market sizes and market shares from countries around the world. Contains long historic and forecast data series, and allows for comparison of data across countries.
PitchBook offers access to public and private markets data on market intelligence, business development, due diligence, deal execution, deal sourcing, fundraising, etc.
Eikon | Refinitiv is an open-technology solution for financial markets professionals, providing access to industry-leading data, insights, and exclusive and trusted news.
Datastream is used to identify trends, generate and test hypotheses, and develop viewpoints and research. Loaded with 70 years of information, Datastream is a comprehensive financial time series database.
Securities Data Company (SDC) Platinum is a historical financial transactions database maintained by Refinitiv (formerly Thomson Reuters). It provides the most detailed financial transaction information available on new issues, M&A, bonds, syndicated loans, private equity, project finance, poison pills and many more.
Rotman Interactive Trader (RIT) application is an order-driven market simulator (which allows users to transact financial securities with each other on a real-time basis) plus a sequence of RIT cases. Each RIT case focuses on the risks and opportunities associated with particular securities or strategies. For more detailed description of RIT, how it works, and the learning objectives of the application please visit the RIT Welcome Page.
To see how RIT works you can access the Demo which runs 24/7. Please visit the RIT Website for more information on the software and its capabilities.
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An online statistics, market research, and business intelligence portal. Provides access to data from market and opinion research institutions, as well as from business organizations and government institutions in English, French, German and Spanish. Includes over 1,500,000 statistics on over 80,000 topics from more than 18,000 sources. Also provides data on market forecasts, white paper studies, dossiers, industry reports, digital market outlooks, and consumer market outlooks.
WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services) is a web-based service that was developed by The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Its an industry standard business research database for information on accounting, stocks, bonds, loans, banking, insurance, real estate, economics, marketing statistics and more. It allows for easy standardized searches of this information in its easy to use portal. Many databases feed into WRDS including Compustat and CRSP. It's one of the most well respected resources for Professors and Master's students conducting any sort of financial research and writing major papers.
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