Finance: Recommended

We have access to several reports/publications on this site:

The Value Line Research Center includes on-line access to Value Line's leading publications covering stocks, mutual funds, options and convertible securities as well as special situation stocks.
The Value Line Investment Survey online is one of the most highly regarded and widely used independent investment newsletters. Published weekly, it tracks approximately 1,700 stocks in over 90 industries. Its legendary Timeliness Ranking System ranks stocks on a scale of 1 to 5 for probable market performance over the next 6 to 12 months.
The Value Line Mutual Fund Survey® for Windows® (Software & Weekly Updates) is a data/software service which includes extensive capabilities for viewing, sorting, screening, graphing, and preparing reports on mutual funds in the Value Line universe. It presents full data on approximately 13,000 funds, with monthly updates. Users also can access weekly performance updates online.
The Value Line Fund Advisor is the essential, one of a kind, mutual fund investment guide that no investor wants to be without. Don't be overwhelmed trying to choose from thousands of funds. We'll help you determine your risk tolerance and time horizon, and use this information to recommend a model portfolio of funds that is right for you.
The Value Line Daily Options Survey delivers interactive daily analysis and rankings of more than 200,000 Stock and Stock Index Options - now with Bid and Ask Prices and Evaluations. Also included is access to Value Line's powerful Online Options Screener.
The Value Line Special Situations Service is designed for investors seeking investment ideas in small cap stocks that span the range from aggressive to income oriented. Value Line's team of special situation analysts maintains a constant search for the very best small cap companies," sifting through hundreds of annual and interim reports, prospectuses, SEC filings, and press releases in their quest. Published monthly, each issue features two new recommendations; an agressive stock from a high-growth industry, and a conservative stock from a more stable industry that may pay dividends.
The Value Line Convertibles Survey provides a unique, systematic approach to assessing the performance of convertibles, ranking over 600 issues for potential risk and return, showing you which convertibles make the best buys, and which ones should probably be sold.
Value Line Select provides subscribers a 15- to 20-page detailed report recommending a specific stock, on a monthly basis. The portfolio manager and the Select committee, composed of senior research personnel, meet regularly to discuss and identify high-quality companies whose stocks have superior total return potential. Once a stock is recommended, subscribers are kept abreast of developments through Supplementary reports that include updated Buy, Hold, or Sell recommendations.
Value Line ETF Professional Solution is a comprehensive online resource offering data, tools, analysis, and education on all ETFs listed in the United States and Japan. Provided in the ETF Survey is Value Line’s proprietary Ranking System which quantitatively evaluates and ranks each ETF based on actual and known data. As the number of ETFs available continues to grow and the complexity of these funds increases, the Value Line ETF Survey will allow users to easily navigate toward the funds that best match their investment needs.

Our subscription entitles access to the following data module products:

Corporate Bonds
Ratings
Offering Documents
Portfolio Tracking
Municipal Bonds
Ratings
Historical Pricing
Portfolio Tracking
Retail Notes
Ratings
Historical Pricing
Offering Documents
Portfolio Tracking

Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) is a web-based business data research service from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Developed in 1993 to support faculty research at Wharton, the service has evolved to become a common tool for research for over 290 institutions around the world.

To use WRDS, you must first submit an account request.

WRDS is the de facto standard for business data, providing researchers worldwide with instant access to financial, economic, and marketing data though a uniform, web-based interface. This hosted data service has become the locus for quantitative data research and is recognized by the academic and financial research community around the world as the leading business intelligence tool.

ProQuest developed a new business subject thesaurus as well as a new corporation thesaurus for ProQuest One Business. All documents included in this collection were reindexed, using these new thesauri. In addition, all company, industry and country reports were reindexed allowing you to limit your search to specific content that must appear in the reports like e.g. a SWOT analysis or a financial forecast. This makes it significantly easier to get more precise and relevant results.

For several thousand companies ProQuest One Business offers special portal pages - so called Company Overviews - and each of these pages provides you with direct access to different types of material for the respective company:

Company Overview
Recent News from Major Publications
Company Reports (grouped by type of information)
All Content for this Company (a bibliometric graph)
Scholarly Journal Articles
Magazines and Trade Journal Articles
Related Companies in this Industry

Factiva provides full-text news articles and business information. From the Search tab, use the Free Text search box to explore an archive of over 50 years of news and other sources.

From the News Pages tab, you can browse current issues of major newspapers and business magazines from around the world.

From the Companies/Markets tab, you can research competitors, suppliers, customers, and partners through market data, interactive charts, financial statements, and more for individual companies or industries. Data includes current and historical pricing on a variety of financial instruments like stocks, funds, currencies, and market indexes.

IBISWorld provides a comprehensive collection of industry market research reports. Industry Research Reports are powerful business tools that provide strategic insight and analysis on over 700 U.S. industries. Each industry report is written at the 5-digit NAICS level - an unparalleled degree of detail. The reports are updated frequently, which gives you the confidence to make accurate and speedy business decisions.
Each report includes 9 chapters, and 34 sub-chapters that provide insight into current and forecast industry performance, changing trends, operating conditions and supply chain linkages.

Every industry faces a set of variables outside its control that have a material effect on industry performance. These factors, which include exchange rates, commodity prices, consumer attitudes, weather conditions, government policies among others are covered by our extensive range of business environment reports. Understanding these factors makes it easier to predict trends for your business and competitors.

So, what are the key factors outside the control of your organisation that determine the performance of your industry? Find out in our brief summaries within our industry research reports, or use our business environment reports as a supplement to acquire a deeper understanding of these trends. Our two-to-three-page business environment reports provide insights into all the demographic, environmental and business trends that you can’t afford to ignore.

Series include:

Asset Allocation from the 1800s to present
Commodity data from 1252 to present
Economic data (general) from the early 1200s to present
Equities from 1694 to present
Exchange rates from the 1200s to present
Fixed income from the late 13th century to present
Inflation from 1209
National accounts and GDP from 1790 to present.