Business Resources: Investment
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ebrary 
Search more than 30,000 current e-books, take notes, and highlight right on the screen. [more info]
E-Journal Finder
Search all of UNC's databases for the journal you'd like to read.
Citing 
Investment E-tools 
Investext Plus
Delivers full-text reports, complete with charts, photographs and graphics. Users may monitor industry trends, track company financials, and research merger and acquisition opportunities. [more info]
Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage
A comprehensive, professional source of investment information and analysis on industries and companies. Includes S&P's Industry Surveys and Global Industry Surveys, with peer company data and key ratios in Excel downloadable format [more info]
Factiva
One-stop source for full-text news, general business and industry articles, and information on companies and industries; provides front-page headlines from top
newspapers and cover stories from leading business magazines [more info]
Morningstar Library Edition
Contains reports on 8,000 stocks and 12,000 mutual funds; Analyst Reports on 1,000 stocks and 2,000 mutual funds; and Morningstar ratings for stocks and funds.
Includes tool for examining portfolios' strengths and weaknesses [more info]
Thomson ONE Banker
Provides company information by geographic area, analyst recommendation, index, sector, and investment style. Includes historical stock price data [more info]
Financial Reports
LexisNexis Academic
Provides access to annual reports from 1972 to present [more info]
Osiris
Contains information on over 43,000 companies from over 125 companies, including income statements, balance sheets, ratios, earnings estimates and stock data. Contains graphing capabilities and integral analysis software [more info]
EdgarScan enables users to search EDGAR-SEC filings and download data into Excel.
Annual Report Service provides online annual reports; users may also request free hard copies.
Off-campus access available only to UNC Chapel Hill faculty, students, and staff.
Selected Investment Websites 
Inital Public Offerings
Hoovers Online IPO Central includes IPO news, filings, pricings, statistics, SEC document guide and beginner's guide to IPOs.
Yahoo! Finance IPOs includes calendar and best and worst performers.
Stocks, Bonds & Mutual Funds
Stock and Commodity Exchanges lists exchanges, including future, options, and derivatives. From Rutgers University Libraries
Yahoo! Historical Quotes provides historical quotes and dividend information. Coverage: 1960-present
Exchanges
New York Mercantile Exchange | Kansas City Board of Trade | Chicago Mercantile Exchange | Chicago Board Options Exchange | Chicago Board of Trade | Numa Directory of Futures & Options Exchanges | Stock and Commodity Exchanges
More Investment Resources 
CRB Commodity Yearbook (print and CD-ROM) includes commodity futures and statistics. Location: Davis Library, Reference Desk (most current edition), HC14.C6
Datastream provides commodities, futures, options; real-time and time series; and financial and commodity futures market data from major international markets. Location: Davis Library, Reference; Kenan-Flagler Business School, Computer Lab
Tips for Researching Investments, a list of guides and tutorials for reading financial statements, making personal investments and understanding annual reports
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Rita W. Moss
Business/Economics Librarian
Davis Library
moss@email.unc.edu
(919) 962-1151
David G. Ernsthausen
Research Support Librarian
Kenan-Flagler Business School
David_Ernsthausen@unc.edu
(919) 962-8749
Davis Reference Desk
(919)962-1151
AIM: DavisRefDesk
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This page was last updated Friday, August 24, 2007.