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Reference Materials (in RRA):
* Standard & Poor's 500 Guide, HG4057.A4758 2000
* Standard & Poor's Midcap 400 Guide, HG4050.S73 1998
* Hoover's Handbook of Dividend Achievers,
HG4050.M66 1999
* ValueLine Investment Survey: a handy little CD-ROM
that forecasts stock price performance relative to other
stocks and provides interpretive analysis of about 1,700
individual stocks and over 90 industries.
Gives safety
ranking, beta and short analysis. The weekly print version
is available at the Reserve desk, but not every company
is updated every ;week. Check the CD, located on A-level.
Analyst
Reports:
Investext Plus:
company and industry reports put out by the largest investment banks.
Over 11,000 U.S. companies and 1000 large non-US companies in more than
50 industries from 1982. The file is updated daily. You can search by
company or ticker symbol, or by preordained industries. Files go back
to 1996.
OneSource
Global Business Browser:
GSB restricted
Company research reports under "topic search". Information comes
from Investext (see above) but is about 2-4 monthes behind datewise. However,
OneSource gives additional company information, 10-Ks, annual reports,
financials.
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Searching
for Books in Regenstein:
Want
something really broad? Do a subject alphabetical browse in our library
catalog for "investments". If looking for a particular place
or country, try "investments--name of country"
"Investments, foreign" also works well.
Insider
Shareholdings:
Finding who owns how much stock in a company. Shares
held by principle investors, like investment banks and executives and
board members are easiest to find.
Thomson Research: Look up a company, click on ownership and
subsidiaries. What you get: institutional ownership, percentage of ownership,
how many and when the shares were bought by the latest quarter, and what
has been sold.
Web
Sources:
Daily
quotes:
CNNfn | CBS MarketWatch
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